Europe's great Protestant theologian is Calvinist Karl Earth. Expelled from Bonn University in 1935 for refusing to take the Hitler oath of allegiance, he has been lecturing at Basel University in his native Switzerland. He leaves this month to lecture at the Russian-sponsored University of Berlin. Sometimes called "a theologian's theologian," neo-orthodox, nonhumanist Earth has exerted great influence in both Europe and America; when he speaks, churchmen listen.
In 1938, anti-Nazi Barth prophesied that after Hitler had finished with the German church, "efforts to recapture the [religious] interest of the new godless Germany will have to be those of a missionary."...
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