Word: reichsbischof
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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Meanwhile everything was so wrong that the Protestant bishops in Reichsbischof Ludwig Müller's "Spiritual Cabinet" resigned after a secret conference lasting eight hours and the Reichsbischof's consecration, scheduled for last Sunday, had to be "indefinitely postponed...
...Reichsbischof Müller, no friend of Jews, declared in an interview at Konigsberg last week that "Christianity was not born of Jewry but out of a fight against it." On the other hand he was not ready to paganize Protestantism, seemed to wish to straddle that issue. "We cannot be a conglomeration of Christians and Nordic pagans," he declared. "We must learn to view Christ in the German fashion," This fashion the Reichsbischof did not define. It vibrated last week between non-Nazi and Nazi overemphasis respectively on the passive concept of Gentle Jesus and the active concept...
German newspapers were compelled to suppress all but the barest news of the Church crisis and Reichsbischof Müller flatly refused to discuss it with U. S. correspondents. "Tell American churchgoers," said he, "that in our Church the Gospel will naturally remain as a foundation on which the message of Christ will rest." Meanwhile Storm Troops descended on the parishes of many non-Nazi pastors, herded several off to prison camps...
Instantly cries of "Sacrilege!" "Infamy!" rang throughout the Evangelical Church. Three influential non-Nazi pastors even demanded a rescinding of the rule against "non-Aryans" in the Church. The sounds of fury and chaos rose to Reichsbischof Ludwig Muller. As the personal friend and henchman of Chancellor Hitler, he might have been expected to side with the Sportpalast "reformers." Instead, caught by the news from Berlin while traveling in southern Germany, he sent a telegram of strong reproof: "I speak only as leader of the Church who is responsible for the preservation of the creed before God. ... It is said...
Scudding north hot behind his telegram, Reichsbischof Muller expelled Heretic Krause from the Church. At once Bishop Hossenfelder expelled the three embattled non-Nazi pastors, who held charges in his diocese, "for offering resistance to the National Socialist and the German Christian spirit." The non-Nazis then called for the expulsion of Bishop Hossenfelder for listening with equanimity to the Sport-palast resolution of heresy. The Sport-palasters retorted that their meeting "was to express what the spiritual leaders of the Church in Germany really think about the Old Testament and to give the highest bishop an understanding...