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- Title
Wir konnten immer das Evangelium verkünden: Baptisten und Brüdergemeinden im »Dritten Reich«.
- Authors
Liese, Andreas
- Abstract
The article describes and analyses the path of the biggest German Free Church, the Union of Baptist Congregations, during the Nazi dictatorship. On the basis of an extensive source analysis, attitudes towards Nazism and the different church-political measures are examined and presented in the light of the totalitarian nature of the Nazi state and relating to the different phases from 1933 to 1945. Individual characteristic areas of conflict (such as youth employment) are also included in the study. In addition, the tumultuous history of the Brethren Congregations is taken into consideration, given that they were disbanded across the entire empire in 1937, and then readmitted under stringent supervision from the Nazi state as the Federation of Free Church Christians. A final section addresses the political, church-political and theological reasons behind the merger of the two Free Churches into the Union of Evangelical Free Churches (BEFG) in 1941.
- Subjects
FREE churches; RELIGIOUS gatherings; NAZI Germany, 1933-1945
- Publication
Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte: Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie und Geschichtswissenschaft, 2017, Vol 30, Issue 1, p93
- ISSN
0932-9951
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13109/kize.2017.30.1.93