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'''Gerhard Kittel''' (1888-1948) was a German [[liberal Christian]] theologian who revealed himself to be a virulent anti-Semite who wrote [[Nazi]]-influenced nonsense about Christianity.  Until his disclosure of or conversion to [[anti-Semitism]], he had been a well respected scholar.  He was so well-respected that secular and Christian [[Liberals]] within the academy denied or obscured his Third Reich work until Robert P. Ericksen's published work on Kittel in 1985 made such liberal denialism no longer possible, four decades after the Reich's fall<ref> [http://books.google.com/books?id=icUf4Ttg_6EC ''Theologians Under Hitler: Gerhard Kittel, Paul Althaus, and Emanuel Hirsch''], Robert P. Ericksen, Yale University Press, 1985, ISBN 0-300-02926-8</ref>.

'''Gerhard Kittel''' (1888-1948) was a German [[liberal Christian]] theologian who revealed himself to be a virulent anti-Semite who wrote [[Nazi]]-influenced nonsense about Christianity.  Until his disclosure of or conversion to [[anti-Semitism]], he had been a well respected scholar.  He was so well-respected that secular and Christian [[Liberals]] within the academy denied or obscured his Third Reich work until Robert P. Ericksen's published work on Kittel in 1985 made such liberal denialism no longer possible, four decades after the Reich's fall.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=icUf4Ttg_6EC ''Theologians Under Hitler: Gerhard Kittel, Paul Althaus, and Emanuel Hirsch''], Robert P. Ericksen, Yale University Press, 1985, ISBN 0-300-02926-8</ref>  

*After the publication of Kittel's anti-Semitic views, the great Jewish theologian [[Martin Buber]] acknowledged that his views were the "ruling ideas" but told him "What I did not know is that you shared them."<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=_JaMKrRjYx0C&pg=PA266&dq=Gerhard+Kittel&lr=#PPA143,M1 ''The lion and the star''], Jonathan C. Friedman, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p.143</ref>

*After the publication of Kittel's anti-Semitic views, the great Jewish theologian [[Martin Buber]] acknowledged that his views were the "ruling ideas" but told him "What I did not know is that you shared them."<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=_JaMKrRjYx0C&pg=PA266&dq=Gerhard+Kittel&lr=#PPA143,M1 ''The lion and the star''], Jonathan C. Friedman, University Press of Kentucky, 1998, p.143</ref>

==[[Conservative Christianity|Theological conservatism]] proved the best defense against the seductions of Fascism==

==[[Conservative Christianity|Theological conservatism]] proved the best defense against the seductions of Fascism==

Gerhard Kittel was a [[liberal Christian]] theologian who was a dupe of Nazi rhetoric.

Gerhard Kittel was a [[liberal Christian]] theologian who was a dupe of Nazi rhetoric.

{{cquote|The message is as clear here as it is in studies of the Confessing Church or of the Jehovah's Witnesses' bloody struggles against the Third Reich: '''Theological conservatism proved the best defense against the seductions of Fascism'''. Thus theologians like [[Paul Tillich]] and [[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]], coming also from the German Protestant tradition, found themselves on a different path from Kittel, Althus and Hirsch. Those who argued the gap between God and humankind to be unbridgeable by political systems found themselves able to preach Christ and salvation in religious rather than political terms, even if their actions, as in the case of Bonhoeffer, were intensely political. <ref> "Review of ''Theologians under Hitler: Gerhard Kittel, Paul Althus, and Emanuel Hirsch''", ''[[Sociological Analysis]]'', Christine E. King, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Winter, 1987), pp. 358-359 </ref>}}

{{cquote|The message is as clear here as it is in studies of the Confessing Church or of the Jehovah's Witnesses' bloody struggles against the Third Reich: '''Theological conservatism proved the best defense against the seductions of Fascism'''. Thus theologians like [[Paul Tillich]] and [[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]], coming also from the German Protestant tradition, found themselves on a different path from Kittel, Althus and Hirsch. Those who argued the gap between God and humankind to be unbridgeable by political systems found themselves able to preach Christ and salvation in religious rather than political terms, even if their actions, as in the case of Bonhoeffer, were intensely political.<ref>"Review of ''Theologians under Hitler: Gerhard Kittel, Paul Althus, and Emanuel Hirsch''", ''[[Sociological Analysis]]'', Christine E. King, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Winter, 1987), pp. 358-359</ref>}}

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