The Barmen Declaration or The Theological Declaration of Barmen 1934 is a statement of the Confessing Church opposing the Nazi-supported "German-Christian" movement. The Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche was a Christian Resistance movement in Nazi Germany. The "German Christians" who were hostile to the Confessing Church combined extreme nationalism with anti-Semitism. The German Christian (Deutsche Christen Pressure group was formed in May 1932 within the German Evangelical Church and led by Ludwig Müller. The term nationalism can refer to an Ideology, a sentiment, a form of Culture, or a Social movement that focuses on the Nation Antisemitism (alternatively spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism; also rarely known as judeophobia) is the Prejudice against or hostility The Barmen Declaration specifically rejects the subordination of the church to the state. Rather, the Declaration states that the church "is solely Christ's property, and that it lives and wants to live solely from his comfort and from his direction in the expectation of his appearance. Christ is the English term for the Greek ( Khristós) meaning "the anointed " "
The Declaration was mostly written by Reformed theologian Karl Barth, but was also crafted in part by other Confessing Church leaders, including Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Karl Barth ( May 10, 1886 &ndash December 10, 1968) (pronounced "bart" a Swiss Reformed theologian was one The Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche was a Christian Resistance movement in Nazi Germany. Dietrich Bonhoeffer ˈdiːtrɪç ˈboːnhøfɐ ( February 4, 1906 &ndash April 9, 1945) was a German Lutheran Its ecumenical nature can be seen by its inclusion in the Constitution of the Presbyterian Church (U. S. A. ) [1]
References
- Douglas, J. D. (1988). in Wright, David D. ; Ferguson, Sinclair B. : New Dictionary of Theology. Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press, 76. ISBN 0-85110-636-6.
External links
http://www.creeds.net/reformed/barmen.htm
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