{"product_id":"faith-in-the-face-of-tyranny-an-examination-of-the-proposed-bethel-confession-9781956658668","title":"Faith in the Face of Tyranny: An Examination of the Proposed Bethel Confession","description":"\u003cp\u003e In 1933 a group of theological students in Berlin asked Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hermann Sasse to work together with other theologians to come up with a confession that could be used to challenge nazi ideology and its inroads into the church bodies of Germany through the so-called \"German Christians\" who wanted to reshape Christianity into a worship of German ethnicity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The result was the August Bethel Confession named after the town in which Sasse and Bonhoeffer worked together. Unfortunately, church bureaucrats got a hold of it and watered it down, and then it was forgotten for the Barmen Declaration what was much more heavily influenced by Reformed theology and concerns and failed to even take up the question of what place Jews had in the church. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This was a huge disappointment to both Bonhoeffer and Sasse who are largely regarded as two of the greatest Lutheran theologians of that era. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFaith in the Face of Tyranny, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Torbjörn Johannson takes a look at the work that both these men brought to the forgotten Bethel Confession to show just what a confessional response to national socialism and racism looks like. Today there are often calls for new confessions and declarations addressing different political ideologies and issues and well as cultural movements. This book shows what such a confession should look like and why as well as what considerations should be taken into account when looking at such a project. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBror Erickson currently serves as pastor of Zion Lutheran Church in Farmington New Mexico where he lives with his wife, Laura. He graduated from Concordia University, Irvine, in 2000 where he studied apologetics under Dr. Rod Rosenbladt. Subsequently, he attended Concordia Theological Seminary in Ft. Wayne Indiana, and graduated in 2004. He has translated many works by Bo Giertz, but he also enjoys hunting upland game and ducks with his dog, Grinner.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"1517 Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50692202299666,"sku":"9781956658668","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7b7944f3-2c9f-4836-8e76-7c4fb73ece70.jpg?v=1734117402","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/faith-in-the-face-of-tyranny-an-examination-of-the-proposed-bethel-confession-9781956658668","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}