Tuesday, July 21, 2020

The German 7th Day Adventist church refused to denounce their alliance with Hitler after the war



The German 7th Day Adventist church refused to denounce their alliance with Hitler after the war.


Fatal Flirting:
The Nazi State and the Seventh-day Adventist Church
HAROLD ALOMÍA


Pg. 10

After the war, the Adventist German leadership reacted by closing ranks and resisted all outside pressures from the General Conference to denounce or proscribe their perceived errors. It appears that the actions taken were wholly justified by the German leadership. In a letter to the General Conference President, J. L. McElhany, Adolf Minck expressed this sentiment of self-defense by rationalizing that they had followed church policy, they had maintained the structure of the church, and also that they had had to adapt to living the commandments according to the times they lived in, times of war, and not peace, nonetheless maintaining in their minds the holiness of the Decalogue (Minck 1994:277).

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