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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...
...Germans respect Dibelius as they have respected few churchmen, past or present. Standing in the Marienkirche pulpit, vested in a black, three-quarter length Luther Rock (coat), he preaches to them in the blunt Gospel language of a Reformation patriarch. A stiffly mannered figure with a face made more impressive by a natural tonsure, small sharp eyes and a heavy, bristling goatee, he is also clothed in the dignity which Prussians think a Herr Bischof ought to have...
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...
Last September the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexei, an obedient servant of Joe Stalin, invited Berlin's Protestant Bishop Otto Dibelius to visit him in Moscow. German Protestants are proud of bearded Bishop Dibelius, a courageous prelate who has again & again sharply attacked the Communists from the pulpit, and they hoped that he would make a more forceful impression on the Russians than Pastor Martin Niemöller, a political neutralist, who deprecated stories about Soviet religious persecution after his visit to Moscow in January (TIME, Jan. 14). While packing his bags, Bishop Dibelius made it plain that he intended...