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Autore: | Burgess John P. <1954-> |
Titolo: | The East German church and the end of communism / / John P. Burgess |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, c1997 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (198 pages) |
Disciplina: | 261.70943109045 |
274.3082 | |
Soggetto topico: | Church and state - Germany (East) |
Communism and Christianity - Germany (East) | |
Democracy - Religious aspects - Christianity | |
Soggetto geografico: | Germany (East) Church history |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The East German church and the end of communism |
ISBN: | 0-19-773893-1 |
1-280-45338-9 | |
0-19-535495-8 | |
0-585-32078-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910812703403321 |
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