The Temptation of Theology: The greater the temporal interval to an epoch of severe crises and guilty entanglements, the more difficult it is to make transparent, turned against the compactness of self-assured moral condemnation, the ambivalences of the historical moment. The intellectual theoretical work after 1933 reflected the pressure of expectation to meet the collective wishful thinking for a reorientation. The author focuses attention on theoretically sophisticated texts of Protestant theology. In detailed analyses it is shown how familiar traditions of thought could be reconciled with the receptiveness for the authoritarian leader state.