Confessing Church

E195069

Christian resistance movement Lutheran pastor Lutheran theologian Protestant church movement Reformed theologian theological declaration

The Confessing Church was a Protestant movement in Nazi Germany that resisted state control of the churches and upheld traditional Christian doctrine against the regime’s interference.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Confessing Church canonical	12
Bekennende Kirche	1
German Christian movement	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Christian resistance movement ⓘ Lutheran pastor ⓘ Lutheran theologian ⓘ Protestant church movement ⓘ Reformed theologian ⓘ theological declaration ⓘ
affirmed	Christ as the only Word of God ⓘ
country	Germany ⓘ
criticized	anti-Semitic policies of the Nazi state ⓘ
denomination	Lutheran ⓘ Reformed ⓘ United Protestant ⓘ
dissolvedAfter	end of World War II ⓘ
endTime	late 1940s ⓘ
faced	persecution by Nazi authorities ⓘ
foundedInPeriod	Nazi era ⓘ
hadOppositionFrom	Evangelical Church in Germany ⓘ surface form: official German Evangelical Church
hasAlternativeName	Confessing Church ⓘ surface form: Bekennende Kirche
hasEthicalStance	defense of church autonomy ⓘ rejection of totalitarian ideology ⓘ
hasKeyDocument	Barmen Declaration ⓘ
hasMember	Dietrich Bonhoeffer ⓘ Karl Barth ⓘ Martin Niemöller ⓘ
historicalRole	center of Protestant resistance to Nazism ⓘ
influenced	post-war German Protestant theology ⓘ
language	German ⓘ
location	Nazi Germany ⓘ surface form: German Reich
membersArrestedBy	Gestapo ⓘ
opposed	Aryan Paragraph in the church ⓘ German Christians movement ⓘ Nazification of German Protestant churches ⓘ state control of the church ⓘ totalitarian claims of the Nazi state ⓘ
opposedBy	Nazi Germany ⓘ surface form: Nazi regime
organized	illegal seminaries ⓘ underground theological education ⓘ
partOf	Evangelical Church in Germany ⓘ surface form: German Protestantism
publicationYear	1934 ⓘ
publisher	Confessing Church self-linksurface differs ⓘ
religion	Christianity ⓘ Protestant Christianity ⓘ surface form: Protestantism
startTime	1934 ⓘ
theologicalBasis	Barmen Declaration ⓘ
upheld	authority of the Bible ⓘ freedom of the church from state control ⓘ traditional Christian doctrine ⓘ
usedStructure	pastors’ associations ⓘ synods ⓘ

Referenced by (14)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer → movement → Confessing Church ⓘ

Dietrich Bonhoeffer → memberOf → Confessing Church ⓘ

Karl Barth (visiting) → memberOf → Confessing Church ⓘ

subject surface form: Karl Barth

Karl Barth → opposed → Confessing Church ⓘ

this entity surface form: German Christian movement

Karl Barth → memberOf → Confessing Church ⓘ

Martin Niemöller → memberOf → Confessing Church ⓘ

Confessing Church → publisher → Confessing Church self-linksurface differs ⓘ

subject surface form: Barmen Declaration

Confessing Church → hasAlternativeName → Confessing Church ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bekennende Kirche

The Cost of Discipleship → associatedWith → Confessing Church ⓘ

Ethics → movement → Confessing Church ⓘ

subject surface form: Ethics (Bonhoeffer)

Barmen Declaration → associatedMovement → Confessing Church ⓘ

Barmen Declaration → churchContext → Confessing Church ⓘ

German resistance to Nazism → hasPart → Confessing Church ⓘ

Hans Kerrl → opponent → Confessing Church ⓘ