German Evangelical Alliance

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German Evangelical Alliance
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legal form registered association
founding 1846
Seat Bad Blankenburg
main emphasis Evangelical Christians
method Umbrella organization
Action space Germany
people Chairman: Ekkehart Vetter , General Secretary: Reinhardt Schink
sales 1,652,000 euros 2017
Volunteers approx. 1000 local alliance circles
Website www.ead.de

The German Evangelical Alliance (DEA), also known as the Evangelical Alliance in Germany (EAD), is a registered association to which about 60 members belong and to which an evangelical network of Evangelical-Reformation-minded Christians from various churches and communities feels ideally belonging. The DEA is a member of the World Evangelical Alliance . As it sees itself, the theological basis of the Alliance is the scriptural interpretation of the historical Reformation confessions . The quarterly magazine "EiNS" is a regular publication organ.

The Evangelical Alliance network includes around 1000 local alliance circles, in which Christians from various local congregations and organizations, from regional and free churches and Christian groups and organizations meet to jointly promote the goals of the Evangelical Alliance. Legally, the alliance is organized as a registered association , the members of which are referred to as the "main board" of the German Evangelical Alliance.

Fields of work are diaconal , educational , journalistic and missionary activities in more than 230 institutions.

Theological basis

The theological basis of the alliance emphasizes:

  • omnipotence, grace, creation, revelation, redemption, final judgment and perfection through the biblically testified God
  • the divine inspiration of Scripture and its total reliability and supreme authority in all questions of faith and conduct of life
  • the need for redemption , that is, utter sinfulness and guilt of the people who expose him to God's wrath and condemnation
  • Redemption of man through God's grace alone because of the sacrificial death of Jesus
  • Conversion and rebirth of man by the Holy Spirit
  • the priesthood of all believers , which obliges them to proclaim the gospel
  • the visible return of Jesus Christ, bodily resurrection of the dead for judgment and eternal life of the redeemed

Thus the alliance is generally referred to as evangelical . Jürgen Werth , former chairman of the alliance, defined evangelically together with Fritz Laubach : “They gather around the Bible and prayer and emphasize the necessity of a conscious decision to believe. For them, living in faith means shared missionary witness and social commitment. They are open to critical inquiries about the Christian faith and the Church's creed, but are not prepared to stop at questions, but want to find constructive answers. They adhere to the trustworthiness of the Bible and the confession. ”He further defines evangelical as evangelical in the original sense of sola fide , sola scriptura , sola gratia , solus Christ . In 2018 the common basis of belief was revised in terms of language.

history

August Tholuck
Gottfried Wilhelm Lehmann
Anna von Weling
Georg von Viebahn

The preparatory founding meeting of the Evangelical Alliance, which took place in Liverpool from October 1st to 3rd, 1845 and was attended by 216 representatives from twenty different British denominations , also invited German church representatives to the founding conference planned for 1846 in London . The addressees of the letters of invitation are no longer known. From the list of conference participants in 1846, only the names of those who accepted this invitation can be identified. Among them were the Protestant pastor Christian Gottlob Barth , the Calvin researcher Jules Bonnet, the Protestant theology professor August Tholuck and Johann Gerhard Oncken , the founder of the German Baptists . The Berlin theological faculty, which is strictly Lutheran, had also received an invitation to London. In their files is the unpublished draft of a reply that was written by the Old Testament scholar Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg : It [add: participation in the founding conference] would mean betraying the Church if one were to deal with the Cananites , Hittites , Amorites , Pheresites and want to fraternize and be related to Jebusites of modern times. Not 'Peace, Peace!' call, but 'Here sword of the Lord and Gideon!' . The church historian August Neander , also a professor at Berlin University and a representative of the German revival movement, contradicted Hengstenberg, took part in the founding conference and made his student Johann Hinrich Wichern , founder of the Inner Mission, aware of the Alliance movement. Wichern took up the idea of ​​an evangelical alliance enthusiastically at first, but later turned away from it in disappointment, since, in his opinion, the alliance efforts aimed more at a spiritual than a practical diaconal collaboration. His spiritual foster father Tholuck remained rather indifferent to the establishment of a German branch of the Alliance, but was a guest and a popular speaker at the conferences of the World Evangelical Alliance until old age .

In 1851 the second conference of the World Evangelical Alliance took place in London . The group of German participants had expanded. In addition to Georg Treviranus , pastor of the St. Martini congregation in Bremen , the Reformed Elberfeld theologian Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher , the Berlin Baptist preacher Gottfried Wilhelm Lehmann and the Protestant pastor from Karlsruhe, Jakob Theodor Plitt, also went to England. When they returned to Germany, the North German participants founded the Committee of the North German Branch of the Evangelical Alliance .

North German branch

The first North German Alliance Committee evidently did not develop any significant activities, because a new establishment took place some time later in 1851 in Berlin under the name North German Branch of the Evangelical Alliance . The initiators were the Protestant pastor Eduard Wilhelm Theodor Kuntze and the aforementioned Baptist preacher Gottfried Wilhelm Lehmann . The North German branch of the Evangelical Alliance called out in public first Protestant Federation . At first they met once a month in the rectory at Berlin's Elisabeth Church and experienced rapid growth. In addition to other members of the regional church, Methodists and members of the Brethren Congregation were added, so that the monthly meetings were moved to the mission house on Sebaststrasse. A statute adopted there , in which the Confession of Faith of the Evangelical Alliance adopted in 1846 and expanded through further resolutions regarding membership and objectives, was signed by the following people: Eduard Wilhelm Theodor Kuntze (pastor at St. Elisabeth Church), Salomon Salmon (professor at the Royal Deaf-Mute Institute), Kollberg (assistant preacher at the St. Elisabeth Church), Lobeck (general agent of the Berlin Life Insurance Company), Gottfried Wilhelm Lehmann (elder of the Baptist congregation), Wünsche (preacher of the Brethren congregation) , Nickel (reindeer) and Ferdinand Bues (preacher of the Baptist church).

In 1853, an alliance was formed in Hamburg, possibly with the help of Johann Gerhard Oncken , the pioneer of German Baptism . Oncken had attended the inaugural meeting of the Evangelical Alliance in London in 1846.

Alliance conference in Berlin in 1857

The third conference of the international Evangelical Alliance, which took place from September 9th to 17th, 1857 in the Berlin Garrison Church and was co-organized by the Evangelical Union , brought the decisive breakthrough for the German alliance movement. Almost a thousand theologians and some 300 lay people attended the meeting. The patron was the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. , Contrary to the warning from Friedrich von Maltzan (Rostock), not to “continue to promote the ecclesiastical union between Lutheran and Reformed communities in Prussia”. The monarch supported the organization of the event with 200 Fiedrichsdor , the city council of Berlin contributed 1,500 thalers . On September 11, 1857, the king invited the conference participants, around 800 people, to a reception in Sanssouci Palace.

At the Berlin conference, the members of all churches had committed to their own church, but also expressed their desire for a common alliance of brothers. Regional and free church representatives had expressed their will to mission and the call for a state-free national church had been reinforced.

Development from 1858

As a result of the Berlin Conference, a Württemberg branch of the Evangelical Alliance was formed in 1858 , which had been founded as an “Association for the Promotion of Love and Unity among Christians”. The first Württemberg alliance meeting took place on February 2, 1859 in Ludwigsburg.

The first alliance week of prayer was proclaimed for the year 1860. The texts that were made available by the British Alliance were used. The prayer requests were presented by two speakers. Two other speakers then prayed on behalf of all the congregation.

Around 1860 a Rhenish branch was established, headed by Pastor Gräber, President of the Barmer Mission Society. In addition, a group of alliance friends was formed in Berlin, which was led in 1875 by the chairman, Count Egloffstein, and the secretary, Hermann Meßner. During a visit by James Davis, a representative of the English Alliance, in 1876, there was a meeting with the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck . He saw the value of the alliance in a common platform for mutual exchange and united action in defense of the principles of civil and religious freedom.

On October 6, 1880, the board of the "Free Evangelical Association", which had meanwhile been founded, and the "West German Evangelical Alliance" were combined in Barmen to form the "West German Committee of the Evangelical Alliance". Theodor Christlieb became chairman for the next nine years , and the Barmen mission inspector Friedrich Fabri became his deputy . Since then there have been West German Alliance Conferences. The conference took place every other year in Siegen, in the intervening years at various other locations in the northern Rhineland and western Westphalia.

In November 1881 the committee of the German branch of the Evangelical Alliance called for general participation in the Alliance prayer week in the following year. Count Bismarck-Bohlen and Andreas Graf Bernstorff signed the appeal. The prayer program was carried out in 192 locations from January 1st to 7th, 1882.

Blankenburg Alliance Conference

The initiator, Anna von Weling , endeavored to hold similar events in Germany by participating in conferences of the sanctification movement , such as the Mildmay Conference near London. From 13 to 15 September 1886, at her invitation, the first German alliance conference took place in Bad Blankenburg under the title "Alliance conference for deepening the life of faith" under the direction of Heinrich Peter Ziemann with 28 participants. While in the first decade of its existence it played its part in building the German Evangelical Alliance alongside the Berlin Alliance, in the second decade of its existence it developed into an antithesis of the North and the West German alliances that have now also emerged. Erich Beyreuther describes her time between 1900 and 1910 in particular as an era in which the Blankenburg Alliance Conference not only “collected” and “built up”, but also “confused” and “repelled”. Reasons for these opposing assessments were, on the one hand, the vehement criticism of all constituted ecclesiasticalism in Blankenburg, which was directed against both the Protestant regional churches and the address of the traditional free churches. These were fueled by the important Blankenburg speakers Friedrich Wilhelm Baedeker and General von Viebahn , who had resigned from the regional church.

Another problem area between Blankenburg and the other regional alliances was the emergence of the Pentecostal movement . While the Blankenburg Conferences at the beginning of the 20th century came under the influence of this movement, the other alliance circles were rather critically distant. Together with the German community movement , however, the Blankenburgers broke away from the Pentecostals. Those in charge of the Blankenburg Alliance Conference initiated a conference on September 15, 1909 in Berlin, at which the so-called Berlin Declaration distanced itself from the emerging Pentecostal movement.

The Evangelische Allianzblatt, founded by Anna von Weling in 1890 and published until 1940, also belongs to the context of the conflict . From 1903, the editorial team was headed by Bernhard Kühn, who struck a "sharply critical tone" against the church. Kühn's successor was Otto Dreibholz in 1914. His work was a first step towards normalizing the relationship between church and alliance and also the various directions of the alliances among themselves. The decisive turning point came when Gustav Friedrich Nagel (1868–1944), preacher of the Association of Free Protestant Congregations, took over the management of the Allianzblatt in 1919 . In 1924 he was first elected second and in 1926 finally first chairman of the German branch of the Evangelical Alliance . Since that time, the main board of the German Evangelical Alliance has met during the Blankenburg Conferences and thus made the bridge visible that had been built between the separate alliances. Also in 1924 the Allianzblatt became the official organ of the German alliance association.

time of the nationalsocialism

The relationship of the Alliance to National Socialism was initially determined by waiting, but then by a silence that was later assessed as "culpable" by the free Protestant preacher Friedrich Heitmüller , a member of the DEA's post-war board , among others . The Evangelical Alliance reacted to Adolf Hitler's seizure of power in its publication organ, the Ev. Allianzblatt , don't. When the organizational crippling of Christianity became clear after the appointment of Alfred Rosenberg as head of the Reich School, the Confessing Church was abandoned and contact with those persecuted by the Gestapo because of their proclamation was avoided. The first chairman of the Evangelical Gnadau Community Association , Pastor Walter Michaelis , took the view from 1936 that those responsible for the alliance were “playing down” the situation. Michaelis, representative of what was then the largest German community association with around 500,000 members, resigned from the main board of the Evangelical Alliance on April 3, 1937.

In 1938 Austria was annexed to the German Reich. We are well informed about the activities and statements of the Allianzkreis in Vienna even for the war years, with their sources otherwise less favorable for the church history of the German Empire. Numerous sermons with statements critical of National Socialism have been received from the Baptist preacher Arnold Köster . When the German Empire was at the height of its military power, he spoke in a prayer based on the prophet Obadja about the high - handedness of Edom , and drew a current parallel:

"When the leaders of our people speak so confidently and so presumptuously, then the church of Jesus Christ can only hear it with a fearful heart and has sleepless nights because it feels the judgment of God approaching!"

the post war period

A plaque in the Jerusalem Forest that dedicates a piece of wood donated by the DEA in the 1950s as a friendship forest to the DEA , along with other plaques

At the end of 1946, the new first chairman, Walter Zilz, looked back critically in the first leaflet of the Evangelical Alliance published after the war:

“We confess that the testimony of the Evangelical Alliance has often not been clear and powerful enough. We have not confronted the forces of unbelief in our people with strength and courage, and we have not met the needs of our time in faithful intercession before God. "

The program for the 1947 Week of Prayer contained a plea of ​​guilt.

After the war, the DEA's work picked up. From 1946 the annual prayer week took place again, and alliance conferences were held in numerous places. The main focus of the DEA in the fifties and sixties was the mission to reach the “de-Christianized masses”. From 1953, the DEA initiated mass evangelistic events with the American evangelist Billy Graham in German cities. On the advice of Graham (he took the view: “Germany must be evangelized by Germans.”) The association “Großevangelisierung der Deutschen Evangelischen Allianz” (Great Evangelization of the German Evangelical Alliance) was launched, which carried out evangelism with Gerhard Bergmann in coordination and cooperation with local alliance circles .

The Westphalian pastor and evangelist Paul Deitenbeck , whose Paul Deitenbeck Memorial Foundation primarily looks after the Allianzhaus in Bad Blankenburg, had a formative influence on the post-war development of Allianz .

Expo 2000 landmark: Pavilion of Hope (Expowal) by WVD , CVJM and DEA.

The Annaberg-Buchholz superintendent Jürgen Stabe was the first all-German chairman of the German Evangelical Alliance from 1991 to 1994.

In 2000, the alliance, together with World Vision Germany and the YMCA-General Association, took part in Expo 2000 with the Pavilion of Hope project , the theme day was July 31, 2000.

present

The alliance is one of more than 2000 organizations registered on the lobby list of the German Bundestag . Uwe Heimowski has been the representative of the Evangelical Alliance at the German Bundestag since October 2016.

The organization issues a donation seal to organizations that ensure that the donated funds are used in their favor. A list of the organizations that have received the donation seal can be found online.

According to Hartmut Steeb, the alliance sees its ecclesiastical mandate as “working as far as possible to ensure that self-commitment to the Bible and creed is observed” and “to respond to unbiblical movements with theologically well-founded public statements and critical discussion”.

Institute for Islamic Issues

The affiliated Institute for Islamic Issues offers information about Islam from a Christian perspective. It was founded on October 19, 1999. Dietrich Kuhl is the chairman. The scientific director is Christine Schirrmacher . The institute offers an online fatwa archive.

Clearing house

In September 2015, a clearing house was created to investigate cases and allegations of abuse of power and manipulation among its 300+ member organizations. To this end, six volunteer specialists were appointed: the former representative for advice on new religious movements in the deacon and church district of Munich, deacon Rudi Forstmeier (Munich), the head of the advice center “Life in Context”, Rolf Gersdorf (Dortmund), the theologian and psychological Consultant Martina Kessler (Gummersbach), clinic chaplain Gudrun Siebert (Hemer), the head of the Evangelical Association for Sexual Ethics and Pastoral Care Weißes Kreuz, Rolf Trauernicht (Ahnatal near Kassel), and the chairman of the Silence and Pastoral Care Center Betberg, Hanspeter Wolfsberger (Betberg near Freiburg).

Events

The alliance has three main events annually:

  • the "International Prayer Week" ( Alliance Prayer Week ) at the beginning of January, which takes place in around 1,000 locations and has around 300,000 visitors.
  • the Bad Blankenburg "Alliance Conference", which has been held annually since 1886, at the beginning of August with around 2500 participants.
  • the annual "Community Holiday Festival SPRING" since 1998 (with interruptions in 2000 and 2002), which has been taking place in Willingen / Upland since 2010 with around 3800 participants in the week after Easter, since 2018 under the direction of Armin Jans .

organization

The Evangelical Alliance sees itself as a network or movement of Christians. Because of this self-image, it does not collect members. Nevertheless, minimum organizational structures were created to enable the alliance work.

Legal status

Legally, the alliance is organized as a registered association with its headquarters in Bad Blankenburg in Thuringia . Members of the association are the members of the "main board" of the German Evangelical Alliance.

Before 1990 there were two territorially separate organizations, the "Evangelical Alliance in the GDR " and the "German Evangelical Alliance e. V. ”based in Stuttgart , which also reunited after the reunification of the two German states. This was done by joining the West German to the East German Evangelical Alliance based in Bad Blankenburg. The office of the German Evangelical Alliance was still in Stuttgart until November 2004. Since then she has been at the headquarters of the German Evangelical Alliance in Bad Blankenburg.

Also in Bad Blankenburg is the "Evangelical Alliance House", a Greifenstein villa with a guest house that was converted by Anna Thekla von Weling into a conference center or conference center . It has 100 beds in 58 rooms and is also run as a 3-star hotel garni. This facility is run by the "Evangelische Allianzhaus Bad Blankenburg non-profit GmbH".

At the local level there are around 1000 local working groups of the German Evangelical Alliance, some of which are also organized as independent registered associations. The Evangelical Alliance network in Germany also includes around 350 supra-local Christian organizations and associations.

management

Main board

The so-called "main board" is the spiritual governing body of the German Evangelical Alliance. About 60 representatives of the evangelical movement from different churches, associations and works belong to it, who are each elected for six years. They are also members of the German Evangelical Alliance e. V.

The main board leads the work of the German Evangelical Alliance with the aim of promoting the unity of the community of Jesus, developing initiatives, issuing statements on current theological and social issues and maintaining international relations with the European and the Worldwide Evangelical Alliance.

Executive board

The executive board is responsible for the ongoing work . It consists of nine elected representatives from the main board:

The general secretary and the two chairpersons are each authorized to represent.

Previous chairmen were:

Previous general secretaries were:

Related organizations

350 plants and institutions are classified as "related organizations", which are divided into three categories according to their degree of attachment:

  • Category I : "Independent works that work closely with the main board of the German Evangelical Alliance, as they were either founded directly by the DEA or with the support of the DEA or were later deliberately affiliated as such to the DEA"
  • Category II : "Independent diaconal, evangelistic, missionary and pastoral works that work supraregional and feel connected to the cooperation of the Evangelical Alliance in their statutes and maintain regular contact with the DEA office"
  • Category III : "Works and institutions that are close to the Evangelical Alliance but do not officially mention the DEA's belief base in their statutes or principles"

The last category also includes free churches and ecclesiastical community associations.

politics

In connection with the responsibility before God mentioned in the preamble of the Basic Law and the historical political commitment of the Protestant alliance against slavery and economic exploitation and for religious freedom , the DEA calls on Protestant Christianity to become politically committed to their country.

A detailed statement on the relationship between Christianity and politics was published in 2009 under the heading Addiction of the City Best . In a foreword, then General Secretary Hartmut Steeb wrote : "The followers should work in parties and consciously incorporate biblical-ethical standards of value"; be ready "to take on public responsibility in the house, school, company, district advisory board, city council, as aldermen ..."; “Open your mouth in your personal circle, in class, at work, at events, in discussions with politically responsible people”; “Write letters to the editor to newspapers and magazines, radio and television stations”.

It is about, said Steeb, "that our society is part of the 'Christian guiding culture'". A ideologically neutral state has no good future. "Tolerance that is not bound by values ​​turns Germany into the found food of an Islamic worldview oriented towards the expansion and establishment of an Islamic 'God-State ideology'."

Positions

The DEA takes a position on ideological, ethical, economic and political issues, for example on religious freedom , persecution of Christians , human trafficking , social justice , abortion or homosexuality and takes largely conservative positions.

The DEA is predominantly critical of homosexuality . However, the then chairman Jürgen Werth apologized to the homosexuals for disrespect and bad experiences by individual evangelicals at the 2011 Evangelical Church Congress in Dresden. In 2015, the chairman of the DEA Michael Diener took the opposite position and spoke out in favor of the recognition of people "who have spiritually cleared their homosexuality for themselves and are not asked by God to give up this imprint". Diener expressly represented a plural point of view and triggered a far-reaching internal evangelical discussion, which was carried out publicly in the news magazine IDEA. Ultimately, Michael Diener made a concluding statement.

The attempts by some teachers to incorporate creationist content into school education, which were criticized in 2006 , were defended by the DEA with reference to freedom of expression .

In 2010, the alliance clearly distanced itself from the International Burn a Koran Day . She advocates freedom of religion for members of all religions.

The representative of the German Evangelical Alliance at the German Bundestag and the federal government, Uwe Heimowski, member of the CDU , expressed himself critical of the AfD after the 2017 federal election .

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The German Evangelical Alliance: Financing and Donations , ead.de, accessed on May 14, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Evangelical Alliance founds “Peace and Reconciliation” working group , idea.de, December 20, 2018 (accessed: January 12, 2019)
  3. ^ Election regulations of the main board of the German Evangelical Alliance ( Memento from January 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Diener takes over chairmanship of the Evangelical Alliance. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release, Evangelical Church of the Palatinate, September 26, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.evkirchepfalz.de
  5. ↑ German Evangelical Alliance: The Common Basis of Faith ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ead.de
  6. ↑ Christian media association KEP : Kirchentagdebatte: Werth on fundamentalism and guilt in dealing with homosexuals ( Memento from April 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: die-Evangeluellen.de from June 14, 2011.
  7. ^ Basis of Faith - German Evangelical Alliance. April 16, 2018, accessed April 16, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Erich Beyreuther: The way of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany. Wuppertal 1969, p. 13.
  9. ↑ Quoted from: Erich Beyreuther: The way of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany. Wuppertal 1969, p. 14.
  10. ↑ Martin Gerhardt: One Century Inner Mission , Volume I (Die Wichernzeit) . 1948, p. 191.
  11. ↑ See Erich Beyreuther: The way of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany. , Wuppertal 1969, p. 14f.
  12. ↑ Erich Beyreuther: The way of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany. Wuppertal 1969, p. 17.
  13. ↑ On Plitt see Die Iserlohnerin Luise von Scheibler (1778 to 1853). Your way from the Brethren in the Grafschaft Mark to Johann Christoph Blumhardt in Möttlingen and Bad Boll , p. 12 (Note 38) ( Memento of the original from November 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 377 kB); accessed on September 28, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kaffeestuebchen.eu
  14. ↑ Erich Beyreuther: The way of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany , Wuppertal 1969, p. 18.
  15. ↑ Erich Beyreuther: The way of the Evangelical Alliance. 1969, p. 23.
  16. ^ Karl Heinz Voigt :  Kuntze, Eduard Wilhelm Theodor. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 826-828.  ([ http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/k/Kuntze.shtml ( Memento from June 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) article / article beginning in the Internet archive])
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  18. ↑ Erich Beyreuther: The way of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany. Wuppertal 1969, p. 20ff.
  19. ↑ Erich Beyreuther: The way of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany. Wuppertal 1969, p. 23.
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  22. ↑ Erich Beyreuther: The way of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany. Wuppertal 1969, p. 43 ff.
  23. ↑ a b Erich Beyreuther: The way of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany. Wuppertal 1969, p. 45.
  24. ↑ Erich Beyreuther: The way of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany. Wuppertal 1969, p. 47 f.
  25. ^ Gerhard Lindemann : For piety in freedom . The history of the Evangelical Alliance in the Age of Liberalism (1846–1879). LIT Verlag, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-8258-8920-3 , p. 919 .
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  27. ↑ Erich Beyreuther: The way of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany. Wuppertal 1969, p. 57.
  28. ^ Stephan Holthaus: Healing - Healing - Sanctification . The history of the German sanctification and evangelization movement (1874–1909). Theological Publishing Community (TVG) im Brunnen Verlag, Giessen 2005, ISBN 3-7655-9485-7 , p. 177 .
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  32. ^ Werner Beyer: Blankenburg Alliance Conference . In: Helmut Burkhardt, Uwe Swarat (ed.): Evangelical Lexicon for Theology and Congregation . tape 1 . R. Brockhaus Verlag, Wuppertal 1992, ISBN 3-417-24641-5 , p. 282 .
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  34. ↑ Compare Erich Beyreuther: The way of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany. Wuppertal 1969, p. 87.
  35. ^ Friedrich Heitmüller : From 40 years of service to the gospel . Bundes-Verlag, Witten (Ruhr) 1950, DNB 451934245 , p. 28f.
  36. ↑ Beyreuther: Der Weg der Evangelischen Allianz, S. 37, 97f .; in picture Friedrich Heitmüller: From 40 years of service to the Gospel . Bundes-Verlag, Witten (Ruhr) 1950, DNB 451934245 , p. 28f .: “One will have to say that the path of the Evangelical Alliance in the Third Reich was not only difficult, but also culpable [...] when one got further astray emphatically deposed the 'Confessing Church' and avoided all those who, as a result of their frank proclamation of the whole counsel of God, had succumbed to the punishment of the Gestapo. "
  37. ↑ Beyreuther: The way of the Evangelical Alliance. 1969, pp. 97-98.
  38. ^ Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer : The Evangelical Alliance of Vienna in Dark Times. About YMCA, Jewish and People's Mission and People's and Feikirchen until 1945. VTR, Nuremberg 2015, pp. 69-109 (about the war years).
  39. ^ So on December 8, 1941. See Graf-Stuhlhofer: The Evangelical Alliance of Vienna in Dark Times. 2015, p. 79.
  40. ^ Zilz was chairman from 1946 to 1954. Michael Diener: Staying on course in stormy times: Walter Michaelis (1866–1953). A life for church and community movement . In: (TVG Church History Monographs) . Brunnen Verlag, Giessen 1998, ISBN 3-7655-9422-9 , p. 558 (see footnote 142).
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  42. ^ Walter Zilz: 100 years of the Evangelical Alliance . Pinneberg 1946, p. 2.
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  45. ↑ Whale stranded: Groundbreaking for the “Pavilion of Hope” at the Hanover Expo. (No longer available online.) BauNetz, June 25, 1999, archived from the original on July 13, 2010 ; Retrieved July 13, 2010 .
  46. ^ Pavilion of Hope eV (CVJM, World Vision, German Evangelical Alliance). (No longer available online.) Exposeum e. V., archived from the original on June 24, 2004 ; Retrieved July 29, 2010 .
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