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Arthur C. Cochrane, The Church's Confession Under Hitler (Westminster Press, 1962)

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Arthur C. Cochrane's academic history of the German church struggle under Hitler places the Barmen Declaration at the climax of the Confessing Church's resistance, crediting the Reformed theologian Karl Barth as principal author alongside the Lutheran pastors Hans Asmussen and Thomas Breit, and tracing the declaration's later use as a confessional standard among Reformed churches worldwide.

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The standard English language academic history of the Confessing Church struggle, tier 1, matching the tier the map already gives its other foundational academic references, used here for Karl Barth's principal authorship and the declaration's later confessional status, corroborating the Evangelical Church in Germany's own institutional record above.
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Used for Karl Barth's principal authorship and the declaration's later adoption as a confessional standard among Reformed churches.
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Author
Arthur C. Cochrane
Publisher
Westminster Press
URL
https://archive.org/details/churchsconfessio0000coch_u6g5
Source Type
academic monograph
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This source names Karl Barth directly: "crediting the Reformed theologian Karl Barth as principal author alongside the Lutheran pastors Hans Asmussen and Thomas Breit, and tracing the declaration's later use as a confessional standard..."

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