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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burgess, John P., 1954- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church and state--Germany (East).

Church and state.

Communism and Christianity--Germany (East).

Communism and Christianity.

Democracy--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Democracy.

Germany (East)--Church history.

Germany (East).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press 1997

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1997.

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

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773893-1

1-280-45338-9

0-19-535495-8

0-585-32078-0

OCLC:

476013174