Word: confessionals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Theological Declaration of Barmen, like the Scots and Westminster Confession, involved politics. Barmen illustrates the importance of having an eye for the political and social issues that are close by whenever theological statements are made. Barmen, in Germany in 1934, was the meeting place of the first Synod of...
The troubles of the German Pastors and their people in the Confessing Church cannot be compared to the suffering of Germany's Jews. But the Synod made a declaratory statement about whom they would hear, trust, and obey which is one part of the Book of Confessions and the principal...
The Confession of 1967
The United States of 1967 is not the Germany of 1933; nevertheless, one may worry about the U.S. because of the direction in which it is moving. The Confession of 1967 is not the Barmen Declaration; but the similarities between the two are encouraging.
The purpose of the Confession "is to call the church to that unity in confession and mission which is required of disciples today." In 1958 a drafting committee had been appointed to prepare "Brief Contemporary Statement of Faith." The committee worked for six years. In 1965 it proposed to the...