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Reformed League
association of churches, Germany
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Reformed League, voluntary association of German Reformed churches founded at Marburg in 1884 to aid Reformed churches and to conserve the Reformed heritage in Germany. It was organized by Reformed pastors and elders who met to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the birth of the Reformer Huldrych Zwingli. The Reformed League founded religious journals and institutions for the education of Reformed clergy. During the National Socialist (Nazi) era (1933–45) and World War II, it worked with the Confessing Church, the organization set up by German Protestants to resist the attempts made by the National Socialists to control the churches. After ...(100 of 137 words)