Otto Weber (4 June 1902 – 19 October 1966) was a German theologian.
Biography
Weber was born in Mülheim, and studied at Bonn and Tübingen. In 1933, he joined the Nazi Party and was for a short time a member of the German Christians group. In 1934, Weber became professor at the University of Göttingen. He opposed the witness of the Confessing Church, and after the war felt a strong sense of guilt for his involvement with Nazi Germany. His 1955 work, The Foundations of Dogmatics is one of the most influential Reformed theological works of the twentieth century. Jürgen Moltmann describes him as an "expert teacher" and a "compelling preacher".
Weber died in St. Moritz.
References
- Hans-Walter Krumwiede, Kirchengeschichte Niedersachsens: Bd. Vom Deutschen Bund 1815 bis zur Gründung der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland 1948, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1996, p. 477
- ^ Moltmann, Jürgen (2007). A Broad Place: An Autobiography. SCM Press. pp. 50–51. ISBN 9780334041276.
- Leith, John H. (1992). "Theology, Reformed". Encyclopedia of the Reformed Faith. Westminster John Knox Press. p. 368. ISBN 9780664218829.
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