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| − | Gerhard Kittel (1888-1948) was a German [[liberal Christian]] theologian who revealed himself to be 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. | + | 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. |
*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." | *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." | ||
Revision as of 21:24, December 29, 2008
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.
- 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."
- Herbert Lowewe, a Cambridge University professor, wrote this to Kittel in August 1933:
| “ | 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. | ” |
Sources
- In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century, Omer Bartov, Phyllis Mack, Berghahn Books, 2001 ISBN 1571813020, ISBN 9781571813022, 401 pages