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...Lutheran Bishop Berggrav's subject, now even more than in the days of Hitler, is one of the most crucial and inescapable religious problems of the times: How does a Christian face a totalitarian state...
...Between today-the day on which this manuscript is being smuggled out of here-and the day on which the book finally appears in print, many things . . . will have happened." Many things have indeed happened since that day in 1944 when tough, austere Bishop Eivind Berggrav, Primate of Norway, wrote those words in the small cottage where he was kept in solitary confinement by the Quisling government. But what has happened has only underlined the timeliness of the English translation of his book which is published this week, Man and State (Muhlenberg Press...
Insidious Flower. Bishop Berggrav first investigates the nature of the enemy-the diabolic state "which seeks to dominate the entire life of its citizens (perchance under the guise of democratic forms)." He quickly dismisses as superficial the view that modern dictatorship is a historical episode which has sprung up quickly and may as soon be overcome. It is the result of a development, he says, which has been going on for over 400 years. "Little by little, the distinctive mark of the state has come to be that of sheer force-force developed within its own boundaries and, wherever possible...
...many of you will recall, we have had a great variety of covers for our Christmas issues. They have included Norway's heroic Lutheran Bishop Eivind Berggrav, who at the time (1944) was a defiant and solitary prisoner of the Nazis; Marian Anderson, around whose life and career TIME'S editors told the story of the Negro spiritual; and the late Lieut. General Lesley McNair, who as chief of Army Ground Forces in 1942 was responsible for providing some measure of Christmas cheer to 3,000,000 G.I.s...
First order of business at the meeting was the unanimous election of Norway's 65-year-old Lutheran Primate, Bishop Eivind Berggrav, to succeed aged former Archbishop Erling Eidem of Sweden as one of the World Council's six presidents. Bishop Berggrav became something of a legend of Christian resistance during the war. Imprisoned by the Nazis in his summer cottage from 1942 to 1947, he still managed to direct the affairs of the underground church by escaping from his barbed-wire enclosure to meet with its leaders at night (TIME...