The group of pastors that made up the Young Reformation movement sought to distinguish their genuine faith from that of the German Christians by way of the Bethel Confession,54 coauthored by Bonhoeffer, George Merz, and Herman Sasse.55 But twenty other resisting pastors were involved in editing the confession, and Bonhoeffer’s effort to rebuke Nazi racism by including a section on the Jewish question was edited out of the final version. The pastors intended to formulate a statement of pure Christian doctrine that would filter the German Christians out of the church by making their
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