How Gerhard Kittel twisted truth to accommodate the spirit of the age We are living at a time of dramatic change for hundreds of millions of people. This change is driven by two forces. One is postmodernism, born in Germany between the two world wars. More recently, a growing nationalism
How could Gerhard Kittel, one of the greatest Christian scholars of the 20th century, become the “Nazi Theologian”? We have written a series of posts that deal with that question. Now, after reading Stephen R.C. Hicks’ book, Nietzsche and Nazis, I have some new insights that might help explain (but
A Nazi named Gerhard Kittel was the editor of the TDNT, the highly acclaimed Theological Dictionary of the New Testament. Should that mean anything? What lessons should we take away from this bizarre historical fact? The Divide of the church in Germany Hitler came to power determined to rid Germany of the
In 1928, Adolf Hitler rented a house with “a magnificent view of the Bavarian mountains.” The same year, a world-class German theologian started a massive research project. His work would become the “gold standard” for theological dictionaries of the New Testament. In 1933, while still working on his dictionary, the
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