English Explanatory Dictionary

Confessing Church

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A movement within German Protestantism during Nazi Germany that arose in opposition to government-sponsored efforts to unify all Protestant churches into a single pro-Nazi German Evangelical Church.

Word forms

Confessing Church the Confessing Church

Etymology

Calque of German Bekennende Kirche

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