Otto Weber (theologian), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German theologian
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Place of Birth: Mülheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Otto Weber (theologian)
- Otto Weber (4 June 1902 – 19 October 1966) was a German theologian. Weber was born in Mülheim, Cologne, 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".
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