The Life of Karl Barth: Protesting in Nazi Germany 1930-1935 (Part 4) (June 8, 2018)

Karl Barth moved to Bonn, Germany in 1930 to be the chair of systematic theology. In Bonn, Barth would witness firsthand the rise to power of Nazi Germany, write the first volume of his Church Dogmatics (CD I/1), draft the Barmen Declaration, and finally be forced to leave Nazi Germany because […]

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Barth’s Barmen before Barmen: Theological Existence To-day! (June 5, 2018)

Karl Barth's most famous protest against the German Christians and the Nazi takeover of the German Evangelical Church was the Theological Declaration of Barmen (1934), but a year before Barmen, Barth wrote another similar important protest titled Theological Existence To-Day! (A Plea for Theological Freedom).  In 1933, the German Christians in Nazi […]

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Karl Barth and the Barmen Declaration (1934) (May 21, 2018)

The Present Situation in Nazi Germany  Flag of the "German Christians" during Nazi Germany [1]The Barmen Declaration (1934) was originally titled the "Theological Declaration Concerning the Present Situation of the German Evangelical Church." This present situation was that the Nazis had risen to power in Germany, and Nazi sympathizers known as the "German […]

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