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{{cquote|It gives me great pain to find that so great an authority and leader of thought should give expression to such views. I have read your previous books with pleasure and profit, and I have learned much from them. ... your present pronouncement is quite incompatible with your previous teaching, and it is as unjust to Christianity as it is to Judaism. ... It is a grievous disiluusionment to find that one's idol has feet of clay.}}  

{{cquote|It gives me great pain to find that so great an authority and leader of thought should give expression to such views. I have read your previous books with pleasure and profit, and I have learned much from them. ... your present pronouncement is quite incompatible with your previous teaching, and it is as unjust to Christianity as it is to Judaism. ... It is a grievous disiluusionment to find that one's idol has feet of clay.}}  

===Moral gleaned from analysis of Kittel and other German liberal and conservative Christian theologians===

==Theological conservatism proved the best defense against the seductions of Fascism==

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

Gerhard Kittel was a [[liberal Christian]] theologian who 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>}}