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To: lightman

Was Niebuhr part of the Confessing Church in Germany during WWII? The church of Bonhoeffer?


14 posted on 06/21/2006 1:13:43 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Let us not flinch from identifying liberalism as the opposition party to God.)
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To: ichabod1
Niebuhr was an American, Ordained in the German speaking Evangelical Synod which merged with the German Reformed Church; the new denomination was called Evangelical and Reformed. In the late 1950's the "E & R" merged with the Congregational Church to become the United Church of Christ.
19 posted on 06/21/2006 1:28:20 PM PDT by lightman (The Office of the Keys should be exercised as some ministry needs to be exorcised.)
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