Word: dibeliuses
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...state, Dibelius charges, whether capitalist or socialist, has come to hold unprecedented power over the individual. And, unlike the old Christian monarchies, this "power state" has no goal other than its own projection and preservation.'Power," he says, "is like sea water. The more one drinks of it, the thirstier one gets...
...goal, a soul," i.e., to make it the state of Romans before it becomes the monster of Revelation. This the church can and must do, by projecting its influence into the schools, the factories, every walk of life. Even this effort may not succeed. "It may be," writes Dibelius, "that the church of Jesus Christ has but the same task as the chaplain in a prison where those condemned to death are kept: to prepare mankind...
...Eisenach, near Luther's old refuge in the castle of the Wartburg, the representatives of Germany's Protestants -seven-eighths Lutheran and the rest Calvinists of the Reformed faith-met to consider a church union. At a crucial moment in a long and stalemated discussion, Dibelius got up to preach. His text was Ezekiel 37:22: "And I will make them one nation." And, as he puts it, it was the one sermon of his life that "moved a mountain." The delegates went on to push through the constitution of the Evanglische Kirche in Deutschland (E.K.D.)-the Evangelical...
...Communists have also banned religious instruction in the schools, and snipped away at the pastors' stipends, still supplied under the law by German local governments. But their open hostility is increasing. Forty-six pastors, like the Marienkirche's Reinhold George, have already disappeared in police vans. Says Dibelius, thinking of his harried flock in the East: "It is not easy to live as a Christian...
...Real Cigar. As the leader of German Protestantism, Dibelius lives in a spacious, old-fashioned house on Faradayweg (Faraday Lane) in the correct Dahlem suburb of West Berlin. A copy of Matthias Grünewald's great 16th century altarpiece hangs on his study wall, and his conference room is decorated with statues of German saints. Since his wife Armgard died four months ago, his 42-year-old daughter Christel has kept house for him, and she is the hostess at his frequent official dinners...