INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
NAZISM IN GERMANY
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The Confessional Church
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The Congressional Church
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The Professional Church
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The I ain’t doing that Church
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Detailed explanation-1: -After the Barmen Declaration, there were in effect two opposing movements in the German Protestant Church: the German Christian movement and. the Confessing Church (the Bekennende Kirche, BK), often naming itself Deutsche Evangelische Kirche too, in order to reinforce its claim to be the true church.
Detailed explanation-2: -In some Protestant churches, eg the Presbyterian Church, the leader of the church is called the minister. In other Protestant churches, eg the Baptist Church, the leader of the church is called the pastor.
Detailed explanation-3: -Synod of Barmen, meeting of German Protestant leaders at Barmen in the Ruhr, in May 1934, to organize Protestant opposition to the teachings of the so-called German Christians, who sought to reinterpret Christianity as an Aryan religion free from all Jewish influences.
Detailed explanation-4: -One of the main purposes of the Declaration was to establish a three-church confessional consensus opposing pro-Nazi “German Christianity". These three churches were Lutheran, Reformed, and United.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Deutsche Evangelische Kirche in Sydenham, London, at which he preached between 1933 and 1935, was destroyed by bombing in 1944. A replacement church was built in 1958 and named Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Kirche in his honor.