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Walter Nigg
Great Opponents of the Saints
Published by Diogenes as Große Unheilige
Original Title: Große Unheilige
In search of the »true image of man«, and with great psychological insight, Walter Nigg describes and interprets the misdemeanours of the »opponents of the saints« without denying their greatness. The book relates the lives of the great anti-saints King Saul, Judas Iscariot, Heloise, Emperor Friedrich II, Michael Bakunin, Charles Baudelaire and Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Religion
288 pages
1996

978-3-257-22865-6
Walter
Nigg

Walter Nigg (1903–1988) born in Lucerne, was appointed professor of ecclesiastical history in Zurich while working as a protestant priest at the same time. Alongside saints, religious founders, prophets and mystics, his books cover artists and poets and not least heretics, whom he understood as ›unsuccessful saints‹.

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Otto Karrer
»Outstanding though they are, it is not the psychological skill of his portraits or the literary quality of his essays that makes Walter Nigg's book so unusual. Its real greatness lies on the religious level; it bears testimony to the essential nature of Christianity and brings it closer to the people of today.«