Sentences with phrase «german evangelical church»

About Blog We are a lively Canadian - German evangelical church on the shores of Lake Ontario.

(Recently it has been reported that a representative body of the German Evangelical Church has made a courageous statement acknowledging not only Germany's guilt, but also the Church's own share in that guilt, despite its efforts and its loyal witness to the truth.)

Now I am a believer in Jesus and sometimes I hear radio broadcasts of services of the German Evangelical Church, but they also don't preach the gospel, but any nonsense.

Yet at the Third Reich, as Bonhoeffer confesses, both the Roman Church and the German Evangelical Church did not preach the genuine gospel, but a completely distorted gospel, a Nazi - gospel.

In 1934, representatives from eighteen provincial churches gathered in Barmen to create a «Confessing Synod» of the German Evangelical Church, declaring ecclesiastical independence from the Nazi regime.

These churches had ties to the German Evangelical Church and, as became clear in the early months of 1933, the church contained radically different factions.

Would foreign churches continue to recognize the official German Evangelical Church, represented ecumenically abroad at that time by Bishop Theodor Heckel, an outspoken apologist for the regime?

Written primarily by Karl Barth on behalf of the German Evangelical Church, a federal union of Lutheran, Reformed, and United churches, Barmen was the resounding «no» to the political agenda of the Third Reich.

Of course the reactonary powers prevailed and the German Evangelical Church (EKD) of today preaches the cheap grace again.

It is true that Catholicism escaped the devastating schism that divided the dissenting Confessing Church and the official German Evangelical Church, and it did not suffer the same measure of Nazi penetration.

Regretably, after the Second World War the Confessing Church disappered immediately, because the Confessing Church was united with the German Evangelical Church, which had supported Hitler during the Second World War.

Not exact matches

The toy was produced for the German and Nuremberg tourist boards and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, and it quickly set a new record for Playmobil toys.

What a privilege to set out into the wilderness from among the Spanish oaks and the Guadalupe river, what a gift to be equipped for the journey by the saints of an old German town and the prayers of the earnest at the big evangelical church and the friendship and love of a few good people who loved Jesus and loved you.

CT's past coverage of Germany includes interviews with a cabinet member in chancellor Angela Merkel's government about evangelical political engagement, a German church planter who studied under Tim Keller, and a Berlin - based journalist who says that Martin Luther would have driven most of Germany's bishops from their pulpits.

In 1975 there appeared in Germany a book entitled: The Berlin Ecumenical Manifesto, on the Utopian Vision of the World Council of Churches, edited by Walter Kunneth and Peter Beyerhaus.34 The book attacked not only the World Council of Churches but also the Lutheran World Federation, World Student Christian Federation, certain Roman Catholic groups, the German Evangelical Kirchentag, Taize, and to some extent even Lausanne.35 According to H. Berkof, the common thread through all the articles in the book was the desire to demonstrate that the World Council of Churches no longer sought to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world, but strove rather for a purely horizontal, social and political, humanization and unification of mankind by means of religious pluralism and syncretism.

Martin Niemöller, German U-boat captain in World War 1, and later a fearless critic of the Nazi regime who was imprisoned from 1937 - 1945, then became president of the Evangelical Church of Hessen - Nassau in Germany.

While the Lutherans were learning to get along among themselves, the German Reformed and Evangelical Churches united into an organic Church in 1934.