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Although Karlheinz Deschner is best known as a leading critic of religion and the Church, he has also achieved critical acclaim by his work in other genres, including that of fiction. To date he has had 46 works published, a number which varies depending on how you choose to classify author, editor, and contributor. Below is a list of those works with Karlheinz Deschner as author or editor, including completely revised new editions.

 

Novels

Night Surrounds My House (1956), Florence Without Sun (1958)

 

Critique of Religion and the Church

Main work is the proposed 10-volume
«Christianity's Criminal History»
The last volume was published in 2013 .

What Do You Think of Christianity? (1957), The Cock Crowed Once Again (1962), With God and the Fascists (1965), Images of Jesus from a Theological Perspective (1966), The Century of Barbarism (1966), Church and Fascism (1968), Christianity in the View of Its Opponents, Volume 1 (1969), Why I Left the Church (1970), Church and War (1970), The Manipulated Faith (1971), Christianity in the View of Its Opponents (1971), On the Cross of the Church (1974), Church of the Unholy (1974), Why I Am a Christian/Atheist/Agnostic (1977), A Pope Travels to the Scene of the Crime (1981), A Century of Sacred History, Vol. I (1982), A Century of Sacred History, Vol. 2 (1983), The Offended Church (1986), Christianity's Criminal History, Vol. 1 (1986), Opus Diaboli (1987), Christianity's Criminal History, Vol. 2 (1988), What I Believe In (1990), Christianity's Criminal History, Vol. 3, 1990), The Politics of the Papacy in the 20th Century (1991), The Anti-Catechism (1991), God's Representatives (1994), Christianity's Criminal History, Vol. 4 (1994), World War of the Religions: the Eternal Crusade in the Balkans (1995), Christianity's Criminal History, Vol. 5 (1997), Nobody on Top (1997), Christianity's Criminal History, Vol. 6 (1999), Between Subjection and Damnation. Robert Mächler (1999), Memento (1999), Christianity's Criminal History, Vol. 7 (2002), Christianity's Criminal History, Vol. 8 (2004), Christianity's Criminal History, Vol. 9 (2008), Christianity's Criminal History, Vol. 10 (2013), Politics of the popes (2013), Christianity's Criminal History Index.

 

Literary Criticism

Kitsch, Convention and Art (1957), Talents, Poets, Dilettantes (1964)

 

Social Criticism

Who Is Teaching in German Universities? (1968), The Moloch (1992), What I Think (1994), For a Bite of Meat (1998)

 

Aphorisms

Only the Living Swims Against the Current (1985), Offences (1994)

 

Sundry

Dreams of Sleeping Beauty and Stench from the Stall (1989), The Rhoen Region (1998)

 

 

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