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In reply to the discussion: Editor of The Christian Post resigns: I can't be an editor for Team Trump [View all]Brother Buzz
(36,373 posts)71. The Barmen Declaration and the Confession Church, Baby!
It was a long slog, but good ultimately prevailed over evil; silly me for growing up believing we had put it to bed.
Here's hoping a 'New and Improved' Barmen Declaration surfaces in the near future.
The Barmen Declaration, 1934, was a call to resistance against the theological claims of the Nazi state. Almost immediately after Hitler's seizure of power in 1933, Protestant Christians faced pressure to "aryanize" the Church, expel Jewish Christians from the ordained ministry and adopt the Nazi "Führer Principle" as the organizing principle of church government. In general, the churches succumbed to these pressures, and some Christians embraced them willingly. The pro-Nazi "German Christian" movement became a force in the church. They glorified Adolf Hitler as a "German prophet" and preached that racial consciousness was a source of revelation alongside the Bible. But many Christians in Germanyincluding Lutheran and Reformed, liberal and neo-orthodoxopposed the encroachment of Nazi ideology on the Church's proclamation. At Barmen, this emerging "Confessing Church" adopted a declaration drafted by Reformed theologian Karl Barth and Lutheran theologian Hans Asmussen, which expressly repudiated the claim that other powers apart from Christ could be sources of God's revelation. Not all Christians courageously resisted the regime, but many who didlike the Protestant pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Roman Catholic priest Bernhard Lichtenbergwere arrested and executed in concentration camps. The spirituality of the Barmen Declaration profoundly influenced many of the first generation of pastors and laypeople who formed the United Church of Christ in 1957.
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Editor of The Christian Post resigns: I can't be an editor for Team Trump [View all]
kpete
Dec 2019
OP
I wonder how many of those "Christian leaders" run megachurches with TV deals...
Wounded Bear
Dec 2019
#19
Another paper that all of a sudden might find increased ad revenues making the transition worth it.
TheBlackAdder
Dec 2019
#75
Remember that haunting question: "If you always wondered what you would've done in 1930s...
Hekate
Dec 2019
#5
Thanks for this link. I hope some of the "all Christian's are xxxxxx" will take a look. nt
LAS14
Dec 2019
#26
They got a phone call from the crime family: "Obey, or you're going to go through some things"
dalton99a
Dec 2019
#6
I'm betting it's the olive branch of green. Cash ad placements make a legit funneling methodology.
TheBlackAdder
Dec 2019
#76
Goethe or Durer: "There is genius in boldness". Impeachment is a bold move. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Dec 2019
#66
He'd have been booted by the board soon enough for not being sufficiently pro-Trump
Jake Stern
Dec 2019
#61
What has been happening on Fox News is now happening in the Christian evangelical press
panfluteman
Dec 2019
#14
Note that this is a different publication than the one that had the other editorial.
SeattleVet
Dec 2019
#63
No! The majority that "claim" they are Christians voted for Donnie Short Fingers
maxrandb
Dec 2019
#32
Why is it that always free thinking center left individuals resign from the media and not the biased
Mr. Sparkle
Dec 2019
#28
Great post, great thread ie DU responses. Read on thread that 81% evangelicals voted for odious raci
RestoreAmerica2020
Dec 2019
#38
He was interviewed on CNN after the CT editorial. We need to think Donald J. Trump...
LAS14
Dec 2019
#78
I am thrilled that some Evangelicals have had enough of DT and are turning away.
napi21
Dec 2019
#81