Landeskirche ohne Landesherrn

Neuanfange und Kontinuitaten der evangelischen Kirchen in der Zeit der Weimarer Republik

edited by Christopher Spehr

Book cover: Landeskirche ohne Landesherrn

Extent: 384 pages

Publisher: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt

Subjects: German Studies, Religious Studies

Series: Herbergen der Christenheit

Series volume number: 27

Language: German

Paperback (Published)

(August 2021)

ISBN: 9783374068692

Price: $44.00

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With the end of the sovereign church regime in 1918, the Protestant churches in Germany were faced with revolutionary challenges. New legal and organizational structures had to be created and a relationship with the young democracy had to be developed. In this context, the problems of the regional churches, which had now become independent, were quite different. In addition, the idea of a union of the individual churches was revived, which became concrete in the founding of the German Evangelical Church Confederation in 1922. The present volume is dealing with the institutional changes on the basis of concrete territorial-historical studies. In addition to exemplarily selected regional churches of southern, western and central Germany, a special focus is laid on the changes for the German congregations abroad in the Baltic States, Poland and Romania.

  • Edited by Christopher Spehr