The Barmen Declaration By Karl Barth

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The Barmen Declaration was the most important document that the Confessing Church had drafted. Although it did not directly address the Aryan paragraph nor Nazi antisemitism, it condemned the “false doctrine” of the nazified theology of the German Christians and the unbiblical synchronization of church institutions. This document served as confession of what they believed to be the proper understanding of the Reformation Confession of Faith. While Karl Barth was the predominant author of the declaration, it has gone through some revisions. However, the content of the confession was essentially to reject almost everything that the German Christian Church stood for. First, the Barmen Declaration rejected the idea that the Old Testament was

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