Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte evangelisch

Within the framework of a four-volume handbook-like comprehensive account of contemporary church history, this concluding volume offers an overview of Protestantism in West Germany during the major political and social upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Politics, Theology, Education, Culture, Diaconia, Judaism), this concluding volume offers an overview of Protestantism in West Germany during the major political and social upheavals of the 1960s and 70s and of the developments in East German Protestantism that followed other political guidelines. It shows how the two forms of Protestant ecclesiality had to come together in a surprising way as a result of German reunification in 1989/90. This book, written by experts in the field, offers a profound historical foundation and opens up perspectives for understanding the church history of the entire 20th century. [Contemporary Church History_Protestant] This concluding fourth volume of a general survey of contemporary church history in the form of a handbook in ten chapters (including politics, theology, education, culture, diaconia, and Judaism) offers an overview, on the one hand, of Protestantism in West Germany during the major political and social upheavals of the 1960s and 70s, and on the other, of other political objectives following developments in East German Protestantism. It shows how the two forms of Protestant church life came together in a surprising way through German reunification in 1989/90. Written in a vivid style by experts in the field, the book offers a profound historical foundation and opens up perspectives for understanding church history of the entire 20th century.