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...Report of Jesus of Nazareth by Otto Dibelius...
Their leader, who makes his cathedral headquarters in the Marienkirche, is one of the world's great churchmen: Friedrich Karl Otto Dibelius, 72, bishop of the Berlin-Brandenburg diocese and, as head of the united German Evangelical Church, the primate of all German Protestants. Jailed by the Nazis and now denounced and threatened by the Communists, Bishop Dibelius is the foremost Protestant champion of the rights of the church against an aggressive secular state. He mans one of the church's most exposed positions against a Communist attack, which daily grows clearer and more severe. Three-quarters...
Americans find Otto Dibelius a hard man to understand. He is one of Germany's few consistent fighters against the totalitarian state, yet he dislikes republics. He signed a formal confession of war guilt on behalf of Germany's Christians in 1945, but he has attacked the Allied trials of German war criminals as "unjustified." He has denounced Communism, but cautiously refuses to make common cause with the Western democracies in their fight against it. His logic is brilliant, but he hates organized philosophy "like sin." These seeming paradoxes, like Dibelius, are unmistakably German and Lutheran...
...16th century when he made his people's declaration of independence, political as well as spiritual, from the tottering visible unity of Rome. This is the Germany which has now been ripped in two by the war of Communism and the democracies. This is the Germany of Otto Dibelius. Once Europe's arbiter, but now politically weak, this Germany logically has as its spokesman a Lutheran bishop, for its spiritual unity, at the moment, is the only bond which may keep its severed halves alive and hopeful...
...Otto Dibelius is a classic product of this Protestant Germany, and a witness to its unique spiritual and political character. "Every country," he is fond of saying, "has the religion it deserves. Every religion has the people who suit...