Transcending Barmen: confessing in word and deed - Barmen Declaration, Barmen, Germany - includes related information on the Barmen Declaration - Cover Story

Christian Century, May 11, 1994 by Victoria J. Barnett

We repudiate the false teaching that the church, in human self-esteem, can put the word and work of the Lord in the service of some wishes, purposes and plans or other, chosen according to desire....

Victoria J. Barnett has written For the Soul of the People, a history of the Confessing Church. This article is adapted from a paper she delivered at Rider College in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, as part of a meeting sponsored by the Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the German Church Struggle and by the college's Julius and Dorothy Koppelman Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center.