Positive Christianity - Theological and Doctrinal Aspects

Theological and Doctrinal Aspects

Adherents of Positive Christianity argued that traditional Christianity emphasized the passive rather than the active aspects of Christ's life, stressing his miraculous birth, his suffering, his sacrifice on the cross and other-worldly redemption. They wanted to replace this doctrine with a "positive" emphasis on Christ as an active preacher, organizer and fighter who opposed the institutionalized Judaism of his day. At various points in the Nazi regime, attempts were made to replace conventional Christianity with its "positive" alternative.

Theological and doctrinal differences included:

• Rejection of Jewish-written parts of the Bible (including the entire Old Testament)
• Claiming "Aryanhood" and non-Jewishness for Christ
• The political objective of national unity, to overcome confessional differences, to eliminate Catholicism, and to unite Protestantism into a single unitary Christian national socialist church