Barmen Declaration (1934)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Barmen_Declaration_(1934)
GPTKB entity
Statements (28)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:theological_statement
gptkbp:adoptedBy gptkb:Confessing_Church_synod
1934
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:Confessing_Church
gptkbp:author gptkb:Karl_Barth
gptkb:Martin_Niemöller
gptkb:Ernst_Wilm
gptkb:Friedrich_Wilhelm_Schaefer
gptkb:Hans_Asmussen
gptkb:Thomas_Breit
gptkb:Wilhelm_Niesel
gptkbp:historicalName gptkb:Nazi_Germany
gptkbp:influencedBy Lutheran theology
Reformed theology
Barthian theology
gptkbp:language gptkb:German
gptkbp:legacy influenced later church resistance to totalitarianism
referenced in postwar church confessions
gptkbp:locationAdopted gptkb:Barmen,_Germany
gptkbp:numberOfTheses 6
gptkbp:opposedBy German Christian movement
gptkbp:purpose opposition to Nazi influence on German Protestant churches
gptkbp:significance foundation document of the Confessing Church
rejection of state control over the church
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Barmen
gptkb:Barmen,_Prussia
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Barmen Declaration (1934)