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...Your April 6 article [on Bishop Otto Dibelius is a fair appraisal of one of the outstanding men and church leaders in our time. Personally, I would see Bishop Dibelius in a somewhat different perspective. In my opinion, his greatness consists in the fact that he rightly assessed the problem of Communism. To most of the intellectuals of the U.S., it is a problem of the right political and social theory, and so it is to the anti-intellectuals of the McCarthy type. To most of our statesmen, it is a military problem...
Many thanks for your cover painting and fine story on Bishop Dibelius' courageous stand against Communism in the April 6 issue...
...believe that you will receive the hearty commendation of almost all Americans, and probably of most Christians, whether Protestant or Catholic, all over the world. Dibelius is evidently a man of real integrity. In our time, when there is so much uncertainty about moral and spiritual values, it is helpful and reassuring to all of us to read about such...
Confident Faith. The great lesson which German Protestants have learned, under Otto Dibelius' pastorship, is that they can no longer take their church and their faith for granted. The Lutheran fortress is under sharp attack. As Otto Dibelius prepares to mount the pulpit in the Marienkirche for his Easter-Sunday service, he can ponder the latest news of the Red assault on religion in East Germany. In Chemnitz last week, Pastor Werner Gestrich was sentenced by a people's court to twelve years at hard labor for anti-state "utterances." In Martin Luther's Saxony, Communist papers...
Against these signs, on Easter Day, Otto Dibelius will preach an old gospel with the firmness of a man who has always known where his duty lies. He once described his confident faith thus...