03261nam 2200757uu 450 991095492470332120200520144314.00-19-773893-11-280-45338-90-19-535495-80-585-32078-010.1093/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(OCoLC)35085397(FINmELB)ELB167401(EXLCZ)9911100436652801619990412e20231997 |y |engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe East German church and the end of communism /John P. BurgessNew York ;Oxford University Press,2023.1 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.1954-1094875DLCDLCUkStDuBDSZStDuBDSZBOOK9910954924703321The East German church and the end of communism4524343UNINA