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Article: The importance of the Barmen Theological Declaration a statement by the Council of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe on the 75th anniversary of the declaration.(Ecumenical Chronicle)
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- The Ecumenical Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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The Barmen Theological Declaration, with which in 1934 the Confessing Synod of the German Evangelical Church in Wuppertal-Barmen marked itself off from the ideology of National Socialism which had permeated the churches, is assuming increasing importance in the churches of the CPCE. In the German member churches of the CPCE it is being given the status of a normative witness of faith. At the same time the Barmen Theological Declaration has an ecumenical dimension which points far beyond Germany. So it has found its way into many Protestant church ordinances all over the world. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Confessing Synod of Barmen, the Council of the ...
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