BD of theologian Karl Barth, whose work confronted the temptation to subject God's Word to human ideology. This faced a grave test against Hitler's effort to coopt the churches to endorse his racist and ultra-nationalistic policies. Result: the "German Christian movement."
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For Barth, this was epitome of the manipulation of God he most detested. He drafted the Barmen declaration, charter of what became the Confessing Church; the situation called into question the very "confession" of the church: Who do Christians ultimately worship?

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