Bavarian parish brotherhood
The Bavarian Parish Brotherhood - Theological Community of Women and Men is an evangelical brotherhood in Bavaria .
history
Everywhere in Germany were in the church struggle of the Confessing Church called brother councils established. The attempt to bring the Evangelical Church into line by the National Socialist State was to be countered with its own structures at the grassroots level. They were theologically connected in their common reference to the Barmen Theological Declaration .
In Bavaria, too, which counts itself among the intact churches , a fraternal council was founded in 1934. He represented the Bavarian Parish Brotherhood externally. The founding members also included Kurt Frör and Karl Steinbauer , who was imprisoned several times for his courageous efforts.
After the Second World War the Bavarian Parish Brotherhood remained. She retained the goal of "waking contemporaneity". The political and social events are analyzed in annual conferences and discussed under the auspices of faith.
Right from the start, the Bavarian Parish Brotherhood had women among its members. She campaigned for the ordination of women in the parish long before this was possible in the Bavarian regional church. The name of the parish brotherhood was retained for the sake of tradition, but in the anniversary year of 1994 the addition of theological fellowship of women and men was added.
Karl Steinbauer sign
The Bavarian Parish Brotherhood awards the Karl Steinbauer mark for civil courage at irregular intervals . Prize winners are
- 2000 the Augsburg (Catholic) pastor Siegfried Fleiner, who granted refugees church asylum for years ,
- 2002 the Bernsdorf pastor Angelika Scholte-Reh, who courageously contributed to the de-escalation against right-wing extremists,
- 2004 Egerer Dean Lubomir Libal which advocates for decades for reconciliation between Czechs and Germans,
- 2005 the diaconal organization Servizio Cristiano, which shows the people of Sicily a life on this side of illegality and the mafia
- 2009 primary school teacher Sabine Czerny, who works to ensure that all children receive a good education.
literature
- Hermann Blendinger: Dawn of the Church into the Modern Age. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria 1945–1990. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-17-015972-0
- Philipp Stoltz: The Bavarian Pastor Brotherhood as an Actor in the so-called Church Struggle 1933-1945 , in: Journal for Bavarian Church History 82 (2013), pp. 205–228.
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ Bavarian Parish Brotherhood: Steinbauerzeichen ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Website of Servizio Cristiano
- ↑ Spiegel Online : Transferred to punishment for good grades: Rebellin receives Courage Prize . June 4, 2009
