Latvijas Evaņģēliski luteriskās baznīcas revitalizācijas projekti 20. gadsimta 20.–30. gados: Jāņa Sandera un Alfreda Indriksona teoloģiskie uzskati un darbība
The Latvian Evangelical Church Revitalization Projects in the 1920’s and 1930’s: The Theologies and Activities of Jānis Sanders and Alfreds Indriksons

Summary/Abstract: Soon after the foundation of an independent Republic of Latvia the Christian Churches in Latvia witnessed the first calls to reform and create particular version of a “Latvianised Christianity”. The sole response came from one theologian – Lutheran pastor Janis Sanders, who in 1923 published a small book Our cult reform. He attempted to reform church worship, wore a white, embroidered liturgical outfit and was also one of the proponents of the Aryan Jesus theory. Also, his idea was to abandon the use of the Old Testament in church teaching and practice due to its Judaic origin. Sanders’s ideas were similar to those of the Deutsche Christen in Germany. They earned broad criticism after the publication of his first, but especially after his second book Christian Faith Reform (1938). He did not gather wide following

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