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- Title
Ab-Grenzung: Die Bundessynode 1972 als Teil kirchlicher Standortbestimmung vor dem Hintergrund deutsch-deutscher Entwicklungen in Kirche und Gesellschaft.
- Authors
Fitschen, Klaus
- Abstract
Heino Falcke's address to the synod in 1972 has to be considered against the background of German-German developments in church and politics. According to the will of the SED dictatorship, the church in the GDR should support its policy of demarcation from the Federal Republic. However, this did not fit in with the special community of Protestant Christianity in Germany, to which the protestant churches in the GDR were adhering too. Furthermore Falcke made his speech at a time when the government power in the GDR passed from Walter Ulbricht to Erich Honecker, which was accompanied by an intensified ideological penetration of society. At the same time, people were to be persuaded to agree to the SED dictatorship with the help of sociopolitical promises, but they were still burdened with everyday worries about the supply of consumer goods. The (quite open) question is whether the church and its concerns were still perceived in everyday life. Did the claim to be a church for others go into the void? Was the church no longer able to reach the secular public due to its politically enforced limitations? In his address, Heino Falcke tried to go beyond these limitations, but this not only seemed too dangerous for the state, but also too daring for many in the church.
- Subjects
CHURCH &; the world; STATE power; CHURCH &; politics; DICTATORSHIP; PROTESTANT churches; PROTESTANTS; CONSUMER goods; CHURCH attendance; COUNCILS &; synods
- Publication
Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte: Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie und Geschichtswissenschaft, 2022, Vol 35, Issue 1, p17
- ISSN
0932-9951
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13109/kize.2022.35.1.17