The interpretation of the role Christian anti-Judaism played in the context of modern political anti-Semitism of the twentieth century is controversial both in the field of church history and in interdisciplinary research on anti-Semitism. In conversation especially with Jewish historiography on the history of anti-Semitism and the Shoah, the essay presents debates and positions regarding the history of the impact of traditional Christian images of Jews and Judaism in the political and social contexts of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in general and with regard to Nazism's radicalized racial anti-Semitism in Germany in particular. A differentiated interpretation, according to the central thesis, must do justice to the complexity of continuity and discontinuity between the different phenomena without downplaying the immediate political dimension of theological stereotypes and the deep involvement of con-temporary Christian theologies and church institutions in the discrimination, persecution and extermination of European Jewry between 1933 and 1945.

Enthalten in:
Evangelische Theologie; 2023/2 Zweimonatsschrift (2023)

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Serie / Reihe: Evangelische Theologie

Personen: Wiese, Christian

Schlagwörter: Theologie Nationalsozialismus Antisemitismus 20. Jahrhundert Sozialgeschichte Kirchen Antijudaismus