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Dietrich Bonhoeffer (German: [ˈdiːtʁɪç ˈbɔnhøːfɐ] ⓘ; 4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church.
Another Confessing Church member who was notable for speaking out against anti-Semitism was Hans Ehrenberg. [46] Meusel and two other leading women members of the Confessing Church in Berlin, Elisabeth Schmitz and Gertrud Staewen , were members of the Berlin parish where Martin Niemöller served as pastor. Their efforts to prod the church to ...
The film suggests that the Confessing Church, under Bonhoeffer's leadership, operated as an underground resistance movement against the Nazis. In reality, while the Confessing Church opposed the Nazification of German Protestant churches, it was not a clandestine resistance group. Its primary focus was on maintaining theological integrity ...
Bonhoeffer’s own legacy has lately been usurped by outspoken Christian nationalists, enough so that his own descendants have come out to decry anyone distorting his life and words as anything ...
In response to the regime's attempt to establish a state church, in March 1935, the Confessing Church Synod announced: [86] We see our nation threatened with mortal danger; the danger lies in a new religion. The Church has been ordered by its Master to see that Christ is honoured by our nation in a manner befitting the Judge of the world.
Therefore, the Barmen Declaration rejects (i) the subordination of the Church to the state (8.22–3) and (ii) the subordination of the Word and Spirit to the Church. "8.27 We reject the false doctrine, as though the Church in human arrogance could place the Word and work of the Lord in the service of any arbitrarily chosen desires, purposes ...
In the early 1930s, he emerged as a vocal critic of the Nazi Party and Germany's new chancellor, Adolf Hitler, as part of the Confessing Church Movement led by Martin Niemöller. While he did not sign the 1934 Barmen Declaration , he did author, with Dietrich Bonhoeffer and others, the first draft of the lesser known Bethel Confession of 1933 ...
From 1934 Bell functioned as a president of "Life and Work", when Bonhoeffer and Karl Koch as praeses of the synod of the old-Prussian Ecclesiastical province of Westphalia were invited as representatives of the Confessing Church to the world ecumenical conference in Fanø. As a selected youth secretary, Bonhoeffer was responsible for the ...