Language:
German
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
52,3 (2000) 201-242
Keywords:
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc., Christian
;
Antisemitism Philosophy
;
Christianity and antisemitism History 19th century
;
Christianity and antisemitism History 20th century
;
Jews History 1870-1945
Abstract:
"Spiritual antisemitism" was a movement that decried the "Judaization" of Christianity through the Old Testament, and sought a "German Christianity" instead. The term was coined in 1897 by Hermann Wilhelm Hoffmeister, one of its first and most militant exponents. Adolf von Harnack, the leading theologian of the time, who wrote an admiring treatise on Marcion, was close to it (although not of it). The movement saw as its forerunners all theologies that rejected the Old Testament, such as Gnosticism, Socinianism, and Deism. All these attributed the inferiority of the Old Testament to the inferiority of the Jewish people, to whom it was addressed, but they were not antisemitic in the modern sense. Harnack and others who were close to "spiritual antisemitism" would have nothing to do with its successor, the Nazi German Christians, despite the similarity of doctrine.
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