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...Church Council of the Berlin-Brandenburg diocese named Otto Dibelius as its bishop. With all the prestige of his new title, he began a continuing effort toward two goals: 1) preserving the church's ministry in East Germany; 2) trying to do what he could for German unification, so that the two halves of the Protestant Germany might be brought together...
Against Crusades. When the Nazis were destroyed, Dibelius might have felt that the monster of Revelation was finally laid to rest. But, with most of his flock under a Communist government, he quickly found that the beast had reappeared, and in even more threatening form...
...Since Dibelius championed German unification, the Reds were anxious to use him for propaganda purposes-as they have successfully used Niemoller, a man of integrity and bad judgment who is now Germany's leading "neutralist." Dibelius, though much courted, turned courteously from the Red blandishments. Eight years-ago he quietly joined Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party...
...although the Communist press calls him "an agent of the American imperialists," Dibelius refuses to preach a "crusade" against the Communists. As a Christian, he holds that his first duty, now as under the Nazis, is to "preserve the unity of the church of Jesus Christ," not to wage political warfare. As a German, he knows that his continued ministry to East as well as West helps keep alive some feeling of community in a divided country...
...Prison Chaplain. Dibelius has his philosophic reservations, too, about the West. "It is a self-deceit," he has written, "if one thinks of the totalitarian states of the East as intrinsically different from the democracies of the West." To Dibelius' mind, the democracies are at root the same "power states" as the dictatorships, because, he thinks, they do not base their authority...