Confessing Church (series of publications)

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Confessing Church was a series of publications that appeared from 1933 to 1937 by Christian Kaiser Verlag in Munich . It was published initially by Theodor Ellwein and Christian Stoll, later by Christian Stoll in association with Georg Merz and Hermann Sasse .

Purpose and aim

In the afterword of the first volume, the concerns of the series were set out as follows:

"The German Evangelical Church knows from their Lord sent to the shattered its entire structure to its outer and inner existence struggling to align in a basic tumbling conversion nascent German people their applied embassy and indeed be positioned so that this people this message grasp and understand, and if God gives his blessing, can also accept in faith. That is the meaning of the great popular missionary advance towards which the Church is preparing at the present hour. It is not only a question of the fact that the Gospel is preached in a realistic and popular manner, but above all that it is taught correctly ( Augsb. Bek. Vll). That is why people's missionary work is not possible without serious reflection on the teaching of the Church, as it is expressed in her confession. This series of publications "Confessing Church" aims to serve this reflection. The informal booklets will cover all the burning questions the Church is charged with answering at the present hour. In connection with the theological working group of the people's mission in the Bavarian regional church, the commissioner of the regional bishop's teacher Theodor Ellwein-Augsburg and pastor Christian Stoll-Munich are the editors . Initially, the following booklets will be published:

  • Issue 1: Riederauer Theses on the People's Mission
  • Book 2: Chr. Stoll, The Confession of the Church
  • Book 3: Theodor Ellwein, Law and Gospel
  • Booklet 4: Eduard Putz, Ethnic Religion and Christianity
  • Book 5: Friedrich Loy, Human Questions and God's Answer
  • Book 6: Theodor Ellwein, The Word of God in the Bible
  • Booklet 7: Wilhelm Vischer , Job a witness of Jesus Christ
  • Booklet 8: Eduard Ellwein , The Son of Man
  • Book 9: Theodor Ellwein, Our Old Testament.

The series will be continued as required. "

In fact, a total of 54 issues had appeared by 1937. In addition to those already mentioned, other authors wrote in this series, namely (in the order of their publication): Adolf Schlatter , Christian Keyßer , Hans Lauerer , H. Steege, Gerhard Schmidt, Julius Sammetreuther, Georg Merz , Alfred Lukait, Tobias Pöhlmann, Kurt Frör , Hermann Sasse , W. Keßler, E. Weber (Herrnhut), Hans Meiser , Heinrich Fausel, Herbert Girgensohn , Julius Schniewind , Hermann Diem , Friedrich Wilhelm Hopf , Hanns Lilje , Renate Ludwig, Karl-Heinz Becker , Volkmar Herntrich , Hans Engelland , Hans Joachim Iwand , Karl Hartenstein , Thomas Breit , Otto Dietz and Helmut Thielicke .

literature

  • Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünziger: Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919–1949 , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2006.
  • Axel Töllner: A question of race? The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, the Aryan Paragraph and the Bavarian pastor families with Jewish ancestors in the “Third Reich” , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2007 (especially p. 121 ff .: The Jewish question in popular missions and theological training ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personenlexikon ... , 2006, p. 250.