• 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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  • United Methodist The Confessing Church Movement Within The Presbyterian Church (USA) A confessing movement within the United Church of Christ Faithful and...
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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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    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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    Zentrumspartei Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), Confessing Church Klaus Bonhoeffer (1901–1945), Confessing Church Erwin Bowien (1899–1972), Painter and author...
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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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    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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  • 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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