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Christianity in East Germany - Wikipedia The leaders of Federal Germany and the EKD signed an agreement to provide military chaplains for West German armed forces, igniting outcry in East Berlin This led to calls for the churches in the GDR to officially disassociate themselves from the West German ‘NATO Church’
The Lutheran Church and the East German state : political conflict and . . . The Lutheran Church and the East German state : political conflict and change under Ulbricht and Honecker by Goeckel, Robert F , 1951- Publication date 1990 Topics Bund der Evangelischen Kirchen in der DDR -- History, Church and state -- Germany (East) -- History, Germany (East) -- Church history Publisher Ithaca : Cornell University Press
The Peacemaker-Der Friedensstifter: One Lutheran Pastor’s Grassroots . . . The back, unrestored part of the building served as an art gallery “Restoration of churches in the DDR is paid for by gifts of hard West Germany currency to the DDR,” said Pastor Georg “The Cathedral in Berlin was destined for demolition, but soon monies from West German churches came pouring in, and the church was saved ”
THE LUTHERAN AND REFORMED CHURCHES IN RURAL EAST GERMANY A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S T HI S thesis is the culmination of a year-long study on the Protestant Church in rural East Germany I am indebted to Professor Matthias Riedl of the History Department at the Central European University (CEU), Budapest, whose knowledge of religious life in Germany and personal connection with former-East German Protestant Church members helped open many
Compromise in East German - JSTOR To this end, no opposition was made to the East German participation in such international agencies as the Churches or the Lutheran World Federation Selected individuals were allowed to travel to ecumenical countries So too, organizations such as the Christian ence, based in Prague, were secretly subsidized, in an
The Evangelical-Lutheran Church and the East German Revolution The Evangelical-Lutheran Church has long represented a key element in civil society in the German Democratic Republic and a key actor in political change 1 Following the Stalinization process, the church remained the only institution independent of the Communist state Even after the curtailment of intense atheistic propaganda by the state in the 1960s, this independent status thrust upon the
Review Article: Christianity and Communism in East Germany Relations between the East German State and the churches were always one-sided Even more than had been the case during the Nazi regime, the churches were to be faced continuously with the whole weight of the state’s repressive machinery, and rarely had an opportunity for any initiative of their own devising
Christianity and East Germany - Religion Liberty Online Uwe Siemon-Netto, a journalist and Lutheran theologian, reflects on the upcoming half-century anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall, "And the wall fell down flat " He relates the story of the Christian peace movement and its role in tearing down the spiritual walls that helped to hold up the Berlin Wall He talks about