Cultural Confessionalism Literary Resistance and the Bekennende Kirche

Pastor Martin Niemoller, popular author Ernst Wiechert, and the young theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer were well known in the public sphere in Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933. As the decade of the 1930s progressed each of these figures becamed a vocal opponent of National Socialism. In the last twenty-eight sermons delivered before his arrest in 1937 Martin Niemoller revitalized Protestant homiletic discourse as a political tool in defiance of the regime. Having protested Niemoller's imprisonment, Ernst Wiechert was arrested by the Gestapo and incarcerated at Buchenwald for three months during the summer of 1938.Henley, Grant is the author of 'Cultural Confessionalism Literary Resistance and the Bekennende Kirche', published 2007 under ISBN 9780820472249 and ISBN 0820472247.