rjb@akgua.UUCP (R.J. Brown [Bob]) (11/26/84)
NOTE: This discussion was originally started in net.religion and I
have transferred it to net.religion.christian because of its content.
Re: Higher Criticism II
Jeff Gillette,
I feel like you didn't read what I said... very few Protestant
leaders spoke out against Hitler... NOT NONE.
I respect and admire the personal courage of the leaders of the
Confessing Church in Germany ( yes..I knew the history) but it
remains to be argued that Barth and Bultmann and other Higher
Critics who had been expounding their lower view of Scripture
helped contribute to the very problem they valiantly sought
to fight against with the Confessing Church.
The bottom line is that Higher Critical Theology
had 80 years to permeate the German Church. I argue that
Biblical ignorance and a low view of Scripture contributed to
the problem of the Hitlerian Era.
Rarely do people collectively rise to a higher level than their leaders
whether the grouping be religious or political.
Bob Brown {...ihnp4!akgua!rjb}