Confessing Church

January 1st, 2006 @ 1:00 am by Rich | Share This | Comments: none
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To counter the "German Christian" group, a group of ministers led by Martin Niemuller formed the Pastor’s Emergency League and set up an alternative church government known as the Confessing Church. In May 1934, the Confessing Church spelled out its theological convictions in the Barmen Declaration. It called the German churches back to the central truths of Christianity and rejected the totalitarian demands of Hitler’s state.

 
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