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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812703403321

Autore

Burgess John P. <1954->

Titolo

The East German church and the end of communism / / John P. Burgess

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c1997

ISBN

0-19-773893-1

1-280-45338-9

0-19-535495-8

0-585-32078-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

261.70943109045

274.3082

Soggetti

Church and state - Germany (East)

Communism and Christianity - Germany (East)

Democracy - Religious aspects - Christianity

Germany (East) Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1997.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-176) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I: CHURCH AND STATE IN CONTEXT; 1 The Limits of Dialogue: East German Marxist-Leninist Thinkers and the Future of Religion; 2 The Language of Liberation: The Church as a Free Space; II: THE CHURCH AND THE PEACEFUL REVOLUTION; 3 The Church as a Religious and Political Force; 4 Preparing for the Fall: The Church and Its Groups; 5 The Shape and Limits of the Church's Contributions to Democratization; III: THE CHURCH AND THE NEW DEMOCRATIC ORDER; 6 Theologians and the Renewal of Democratic Political Institutions; 7 Coming to Terms with the Past: The Church, the State, and the Sta; 8 Church and Politics in a Secular World: The Theology of Wolf Krötke; Epilogue: After the Wall; Notes; Indexsi

Sommario/riassunto

Burgess explores how dissident groups in Eastern Europe drew on church symbols and language to develop a popular alternative theology and how the theological tension between the church and the dissidents provided impulses for political democratisation.