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- Title
Der Bund Evangelisch-Freikirchlicher Gemeinden in d er DDR (Baptisten).
- Authors
STRÜBIND, ANDREA
- Abstract
In the second German dictatorship, numerous analogies to the Free Church’s conduct under the Nazi dictatorship can be demonstrated, above all adaptation mechanisms while simultaneously maintaining a tenacious struggle to preserve the highest possible level of ideological independence. When observing its development through the different phases of the GDR’s history, it is reasonable to claim that the Union of Evangelical Free Churches in Germany (BEFG) was successful in establishing itself as a loyal minority church in the GDR. Congregations’ work was able to continue largely unimpeded - even when occasional conflicts in missionary and charitable fields flared up. Following the construction of the Berlin Wall, diplomatic dialogue between the church’s leading officials and representatives of the state, as well as increasingly close cooperation with the »Federation of Evangelical Churches« (BEK), the »Working Group of Christian Churches« (AGCK) and other Free Churches in the Union of Protestant Free Churches (VEF) were key foundations for the success of the congregations’ work.
- Subjects
EVANGELICAL churches; FREE churches; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte: Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie und Geschichtswissenschaft, 2016, Vol 29, Issue 1, p77
- ISSN
0932-9951
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13109/kize.2016.29.1.77