Packet 11: Tossup 15

Description acceptable. A supporter of this movement rearranged the synoptic gospels into a single narrative titled “Jesus the Savior,” omitting the genealogies and circumcision of Jesus. After the “Brown Synod” supported this European movement by approving a controversial “Paragraph,” one of its primary opponents declared a status confessionis. A declaration opposing this movement rejects the authority of any “powers” besides Jesus in the first of its six theses. This movement, which was embraced by (*) “positive Christianity,” was condemned in a (10[2])clandestine encyclical (10[1])beginning, “With burning care…” (10[1])This movement was (10[1])condemned by the Barmen declaration and opposed by (10[1])the Confessing (10[1])Church. (10[3])For 10 points, what movement opposed by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (10[2])and Martin Niemöller sought to conform Christianity to an antisemitic state ideology? ■END■ (10[1])

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