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Early in 1934, Schneider and his family moved to Dickenschied, where he became pastor to the Dickenschied and Womrath congregations. That same year, Pastor Schneider became a member of the Confessing Church, a Protestant organization that opposed Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime.
Oct 28, 2017 · Schneider, like Martin Niemöller and Bonhoeffer himself, were members of the Confessing Church, pastors who would not bow the knee to Nazism, but confessed allegiance to Christ at any cost. And Schneider was the first of them to seal his gospel witness with his blood.
Confessing Church, movement for revival within the German Protestant churches that developed during the 1930s from their resistance to Adolf Hitler’s attempt to make the churches an instrument of National Socialist (Nazi) propaganda and politics.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Confessing Church (German: Bekennende Kirche, pronounced [bəˈkɛ.nən.də ˈkɪʁ.çə] ⓘ) was a movement within German Protestantism in Nazi Germany that arose in opposition to government-sponsored efforts to unify all of the Protestant churches into a single pro-Nazi German Evangelical Church.
The official German Christian authorities stopped the salaries of ministers who joined the Confessing Church, and from then on they had to live on funds provided by the Confessing Church...
Jul 22, 2009 · In 1933, the year Hitler came to power, the claims of Nazism came to his notice. Both Ernst Rohm, head of the SA, who accused the Church of “bigotry”, and Joseph Goebbels, who delivered the new Nazi line on morals, called forth replies from Pastor Schneider in his sermons and letters.
The Confessing Church, which developed out of it, issued the following “Church Emergency Law” at the Second Confessing Synod in October 1934 in Berlin-Dahlem. It challenged the authority and legitimacy of both the Reich Church and the German Christian movement and proclaimed itself the only legitimate Protestant Church.
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