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...Dibelius manages to perform an amazing amount of administrative church work, on split-second schedules. If a visitor exceeds the time allotted for an interview, the bishop is apt to consult his old-fashioned pocket watch, arise and politely excuse himself. He opens the watch each morning at 7 to start his day (with a hymn and prayers with his small staff), and it ticks tirelessly through his appointments until 10 at night, when he goes to his study to write. His books, both on devotional and historical subjects, are written in a conversational style which has made some...
Inside the bones of a disciplined character, Dibelius has circulating a lively and urbane wit, a shrewd judgment of character, and a sense of realism that generally gets the better of his Prussian stubbornness. He gives his young pastors one cardinal maxim: "You must love men as they are, and not wait until they change into what you want them to be." But, as a man who has used the same tailor in Berlin's Leipziger Strasse for the last 50 years, he shows spurts of impatience with people whose habits clash with his. When a clergyman once pulled...
...Visible Church. When Dibelius became general superintendent of the Kurmark district in 1925, he was virtually the first German clergyman to drive his own car. Using the car, to the bewilderment of the pastors under him, he, was able to visit his 35 church districts in 42 days. "I told my pastors," he recalls, "that I wanted to be the bishop of the visible church, not the invisible...
...fact, if not in title, Otto Dibelius has been a bishop of the visible church for most of his life. He believes in the visible church, believes that it must be maintained, at all costs, to succor the faithful, to make believers of the ignorant, and to lead...
...church in Germany has caught some of Dibelius' iron spirit. If there is not yet a full-scale religious revival, the groundwork is being laid for one. "Evangelical academies" for acquainting clergy and laymen with each other's problems have sprung up in most of the German provincial churches. Following Dibelius' advice of long ago, Protestants are making a strong effort to bring religion to German workers. Using an idea borrowed from the "worker priests" of Catholic France, pastors now spend some time in fields and factories, trying to come to grips with their people...