5/29/2023 0 Comments Bonhoeffer ethics![]() ![]() A church-state conflict between the Confessing Church and the Nazi state, primarily over spheres of influence.The German Christian Movement (or “German Christians”) worked to align the Protestant church with the new Nazi regime ideologically and organisationally, while the Confessing Church, in which Dietrich Bonhoeffer was active, resisted this alignment. A struggle between two factions in the Protestant churches - the German Christian Movement and the Confessing Church. ![]() Historian Matthew Hockenos has argued that the church struggle involved “three interwoven dimensions”: What is often called “the church struggle” ( Kirchenkampf) refers broadly to the situation of the Christian churches in Germany from Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 to the end of the Second World War in 1945. ![]()
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