{"id":257,"date":"2025-11-10T16:55:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reclaimingtheheritage.us\/?page_id=257"},"modified":"2025-11-19T23:18:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:18:35","slug":"the-confessing-church","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reclaimingtheheritage.us\/index.php\/the-confessing-church\/","title":{"rendered":"The Confessing Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-257\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-257-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-257-0\" ><div id=\"pgc-257-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-257-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><div style=\"height: 5px;\"><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">The Confessing Church<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 5px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-257-1\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-257-1-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-257-1-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-257-1-0-0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"standard_text\"><strong>The Confessing Church, or Bekennende Kirche, was a German Protestant movement in the 1930s that opposed the \"German Christians,\" a creation of the Nazi regime that sought to make the church an instrument of the state's \"national socialist\" policy. Key figures like Martin Niem\u00f6ller and Dietrich Bonhoeffer were part of the movement, which issued the Barmen Declaration in 1934 to assert the church's spiritual autonomy from the state. While initially focused on preserving church freedom, members eventually recognized the Nazis' inherently anti-Christian nature. There were weaknesses also. The Barmen Confession never mentioned the Jews and the Confessing Church only took up the oppression of the Jews very late. There were, if fact, Confessing Church leaders who held antisemitic views even as they were opposing the Nazi regime.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Confessing Church The Confessing Church, or Bekennende Kirche, was a German Protestant movement in the 1930s that opposed the &#8220;German Christians,&#8221; a creation of the Nazi regime that sought to make the church an instrument of the state&#8217;s &#8220;national socialist&#8221; policy. Key figures like Martin Niem\u00f6ller and Dietrich Bonhoeffer were part of the movement,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-257","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reclaimingtheheritage.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reclaimingtheheritage.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reclaimingtheheritage.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reclaimingtheheritage.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reclaimingtheheritage.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/reclaimingtheheritage.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/reclaimingtheheritage.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/257\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reclaimingtheheritage.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}