The Confessing Church (German: Bekennende Kirche, pronounced [bəˈkɛ.nən.də ˈkɪʁ.çə] ) was a movement within German Protestantism in Nazi Germany that...
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followed suit. The Confessing Church's executive together with the conference of the state brethren councils (representing the Confessing Church adherents within...
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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...
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United Methodist The Confessing Church Movement Within The Presbyterian Church (USA) A confessing movement within the United Church of Christ[usurped] Faithful...
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Confessing pastors in the deanery. Confessing congregants elected synodals for a Confessing provincial synod as well as Confessing State synod (German: Provinzial-...
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became one of the founders of the Confessing Church, which opposed the Nazification of German Protestant churches. He opposed the Nazis' Aryan Paragraph...
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Fellowship of Confessing Churches has identified the following as "Related Sites and Organizations" : "Forward Together (Scotland)" "Confessing Churches in Presbyterian...
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Zentrumspartei Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), Confessing Church Klaus Bonhoeffer (1901–1945), Confessing Church Erwin Bowien (1899–1972), Painter and author...
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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...
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pro-government German Christians, and the Confessing Church, which opposed state control of the church. Other Protestant churches aligned themselves with one of...
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essentially failed, and it resulted in the formation of the dissident Confessing Church, whose members saw great danger to Germany from the "new religion"...
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The Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (branded as GAFCON or Gafcon) is a communion of conservative Anglican churches that formed in 2008 in response...
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Confessing Congregations (ACC) illustrate conservative opposition to the ordination of gay and lesbian candidates and the influence of the Confessing...
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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...
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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...
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The movement grew into the Confessing Church, from which some clergymen opposed the Nazi regime. By 1934, the Confessing Church had promulgated the Theological...
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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...
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the various opposing church groups merged in the Badischer Bekennerbund (i.e. Baden Covenant of Confessors), the Confessing Church branch in Baden, considering...
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after World War II. Niemöller made confession in his speech for the Confessing Church in Frankfurt on 6 January 1946, of which this is a partial translation:...
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The Assembly of Confessing Congregations (ACC) was an evangelical or conservative Christian group, an expression of the Confessing Movement, within the...
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initially 28 regional church bodies (Landeskirchen) in Germany and the attendant foundation of the opposing Confessing Church in 1934. Siegfried Leffler...
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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...
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the Aryan Paragraph into the Church. This controversy led to schism and the foundation of the competing Confessing Church, a situation that frustrated...
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"Confessing Church", which opposed the "German Christians" and swore allegiance to "God and scripture, not a worldly Führer." The Confessing Church moved...
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1906, Schneidemühl – 13 August 1993, Berlin) was a member of the Confessing Church and of the German Resistance against National Socialism. Jacobs was...
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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...
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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...
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so-called Confessing Church. The ecumenical nature of the Declaration can be seen by its inclusion in the Book of Confessions of the Presbyterian Church (USA)...
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the official church body. Services and other meetings of Confessing Christians had to take place as private events, thus only true Confessing Christians...
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the Confessing Church), and moved early to eliminate political Catholicism. Even though Nazi leadership was excommunicated from the Catholic Church, Hitler...
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