Barmen Declaration

The Barmen Declaration, formally the Theological Declaration of Barmen 1934, was a document adopted in May 1934 by a synod of German Christians meeting in Wuppertal-Barmen who opposed the pro-Nazi German Christian movement. Its delegates held that the German Christians had made church government subservient to the Nazi state and had introduced Nazi ideology into the German Protestant churches in a way that contradicted the Christian gospel. The declaration was chiefly written by the Reformed theologian Karl Barth, with Lutheran theologians contributing changes to its article on the two kingdoms, and it became the founding confessional document of the Confessing Church, the German Protestant resistance movement of the Nazi era. It was later also adopted by the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the Moravian Church. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/