Word: adame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twinkling-eyed Karl Barth, Swiss-born theologian who greatly influenced the Confessional group before his exile from Germany. Barth, famed for his gloomy view (lately modified) that man can do little here below, slyly ascribed Niemöller's position to Original Sin-man's heritage from Adam. Wrote Barth to the Anglican Bishop of Chichester, in a letter which found its way into a Rotterdam newspaper last week...
...Niemöller was always a good, a very good German, and he has remained so to this day. He fought valiantly in [World War I], convinced as he was of the justice of the German cause. Later he became a pastor, a very devoted pastor. But his old Adam-as with all of us-is not dead. I do not believe he lost his head when he offered his services to Hitler, but I believe he acted simply in the spirit which his old Adam dictated...