03152nam 2200709Ia 450 991081270340332120200520144314.00-19-773893-11-280-45338-90-19-535495-80-585-32078-010.1093/oso/9780195110982.001.0001(CKB)111004366528016(EBL)272893(OCoLC)476013174(SSID)ssj0000142589(PQKBManifestationID)11153260(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000142589(PQKBWorkID)10097157(PQKB)11132338(Au-PeEL)EBL272893(CaPaEBR)ebr10278787(CaONFJC)MIL45338(OCoLC)466428464(MiAaPQ)EBC272893(OCoLC)1406783703(StDuBDS)9780197738931(EXLCZ)9911100436652801619960702d1997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe East German church and the end of communism /John P. BurgessNew York Oxford University Pressc19971 online resource (198 pages)Oxford scholarship onlineIncludes index.Previously issued in print: 1997.0-19-511098-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-176) and index.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; IndexsiBurgess 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.Oxford scholarship online.Church and stateGermany (East)Communism and ChristianityGermany (East)DemocracyReligious aspectsChristianityGermany (East)Church historyChurch and stateCommunism and ChristianityDemocracyReligious aspectsChristianity.261.70943109045274.3082Burgess John P.1954-1094875MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812703403321The East German church and the end of communism4048427UNINA