The Confessing Church (German: Bekennende Kirche, pronounced [bəˈkɛ.nən.də ˈkɪʁ.çə] ) was a movement within German Protestantism in Nazi Germany that... 45 KB (5,740 words) - 22:35, 19 April 2024 |
United Methodist The Confessing Church Movement Within The Presbyterian Church (USA) A confessing movement within the United Church of Christ Faithful and... 24 KB (2,736 words) - 23:45, 23 April 2024 |
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (section Confessing church) theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become... 86 KB (10,032 words) - 07:49, 19 April 2024 |
Fellowship of Confessing Churches has identified the following as "Related Sites and Organizations" : "Forward Together (Scotland)" "Confessing Churches in Presbyterian... 2 KB (208 words) - 13:30, 18 April 2023 |
Confessing Congregations (ACC) illustrate conservative opposition to the ordination of gay and lesbian candidates and the influence of the Confessing... 32 KB (2,908 words) - 12:42, 13 April 2024 |
Kirchenkampf (redirect from Nazi persecution of the churches) different "church struggles": The internal dispute within German Protestantism between the German Christians (Deutsche Christen) and the Confessing Church (Bekennende... 69 KB (8,066 words) - 10:54, 25 April 2024 |
formation of the dissident Confessing Church which saw great danger to Germany from the "new religion". The Catholic Church also denounced the creed's... 30 KB (3,576 words) - 11:08, 16 April 2024 |
The Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (branded as GAFCON or Gafcon) is a communion of conservative Anglican churches that formed in 2008 in response... 25 KB (1,754 words) - 17:35, 20 March 2024 |
Religion in Nazi Germany (redirect from Hitler and the Church) Church from Germany's 28 existing Protestant churches. The plan failed, and was resisted by the Confessing Church. Persecution of the Catholic Church... 123 KB (14,645 words) - 19:16, 27 April 2024 |
Karl Barth (section Church Dogmatics) his commentary The Epistle to the Romans, his involvement in the Confessing Church, including his authorship (except for a single phrase) of the Barmen... 56 KB (6,465 words) - 19:05, 12 April 2024 |
Werner Koch (pastor) (section Confessing church) theologian and journalist. Through his early involvement with the Confessing Church ("Bekennende Kirche") he came to wider prominence as an opponent of... 20 KB (2,192 words) - 21:26, 12 September 2023 |
initially 28 regional church bodies (Landeskirchen) in Germany and the attendant foundation of the opposing Confessing Church in 1934. Siegfried Leffler... 40 KB (5,064 words) - 22:18, 3 March 2024 |
the Confessing Church), and moved early to eliminate political Catholicism. Even though Nazi leadership was excommunicated from the Catholic Church, Hitler... 188 KB (24,361 words) - 18:40, 22 April 2024 |
the Aryan Paragraph into the Church. This controversy led to schism and the foundation of the competing Confessing Church, a situation that frustrated... 8 KB (857 words) - 07:04, 4 March 2024 |
1906, Schneidemühl – 13 August 1993, Berlin) was a member of the Confessing Church and of the German Resistance against National Socialism. Jacobs was... 5 KB (574 words) - 14:40, 9 October 2023 |
History of Christianity (redirect from History of the Christian Church) of German Protestants, formed the Confessing Church which opposed Nazism. Nazis interfered in The Confessing Church's affairs, harassed its members, executed... 282 KB (31,049 words) - 07:32, 28 April 2024 |
for its persecution of Christian Churches; many of them, such as the Protestant Confessing Church and the Catholic Church, as well as Quakers and Jehovah's... 100 KB (13,479 words) - 14:47, 11 April 2024 |
theologian. He came to prominence in the 1930s as a leader of the Confessing Church ("Bekennende Kirche"), which can be seen as a movement within German... 15 KB (1,511 words) - 07:28, 12 January 2023 |
The Assembly of Confessing Congregations (ACC) was an evangelical or conservative Christian group, an expression of the Confessing Movement, within the... 7 KB (710 words) - 13:00, 1 April 2023 |
George Bell (bishop) (category Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford) important international ally of the Confessing Church in Germany. In April 1933 he publicly expressed the international church's worries over the beginnings of... 36 KB (4,481 words) - 01:30, 25 March 2024 |
"Confessing Church", which opposed the "German Christians" and swore allegiance to "God and scripture, not a worldly Führer." The Confessing Church moved... 7 KB (782 words) - 15:17, 12 February 2024 |
Jewish philosopher and theologian. One of the co-founders of the Confessing Church, he was forced to emigrate to England because of his Jewish ancestry... 24 KB (2,442 words) - 01:34, 11 April 2024 |