German Evangelical Church Congress 2015

Official logo of the 35th German Evangelical Church Congress - an interactive search field

The 35th German Evangelical Church Congress took place from June 3rd to 7th, 2015 in Stuttgart . After 1952 , 1969 and 1999 this German Evangelical Church Congress was the fourth in the state capital of Baden-Württemberg . The host was the Evangelical Church in Württemberg , which together with the City of Stuttgart, the State of Baden-Württemberg, the federal government and the German Evangelical Church Congress invited to the Church Congress. The President of the Kirchentag was Andreas Barner .

Solution

The slogan for the Kirchentag was "so that we can become wise" ( Ps 90.12 LUT ).

The Stuttgart advertising agency Leonhardt & Kern created and designed the poster campaign. The poster shows an interactive search field designed as a combo box, in the drop-down list of which the Kirchentag slogan “so that we can become wise” appears.

event

There were 97,127 permanent participants and around 30,000 day visitors. This meant that the Kirchentag was significantly less attended than the two previous ones, which each had almost 120,000 permanent participants.

For the first time there was a cooperation with Christustag , a major Pietist event that had formed under the name " Gemeindetag unter dem Wort " as a counter-movement to the 1973 Kirchentag in Düsseldorf, which was understood as liberal and politicized. Based on the Kirchentag motto, Christustag 2015 in the Porsche Arena had chosen the slogan “Your word makes me smart”.

Controversial issues

Thomas de Maizière at the Stuttgart Kirchentag

Messianic Jews

In 2014 the Presidium of the Kirchentag decided not to allow a presence of messianic Jews on the market of opportunities this time either and thus to maintain the procedure that had been in place since 1999. The Presidium of the Kirchentag argued that mission to the Jews carried out by Jewish messianic organizations endangered Jewish-Christian dialogue. The " Lebendige Gemeinde " movement in the Württemberg regional church criticized this sharply.

Church asylum

Federal Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière , who is a member of the Kirchentag presidium, called the practice of church asylum in Germany an abuse and drew a comparison with Sharia law . As a result, several student pastors demanded de Maizière's resignation from the Church Council Presidium. But the latter withdrew his comparison.

financing

Criticism of the Kirchentag funding in public space.

The Kirchentag in Stuttgart cost 18.3 million euros. This sum was raised as follows:

Self-generated (tickets, sponsorship, etc.): 5.7 million euros,
State of Baden-Württemberg: 5 million euros,
Church grants: 4.2 million euros,
City of Stuttgart: 2.5 million euros,
Project funds: 450,500 euros,
Grants from the Federal Republic of Germany: 400,000 euros.

Web links

Commons : Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag 2015 - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Website of the German Evangelical Church Congress

Individual evidence

^ German Evangelical Church Congress: Kirchentag 2015. Poster presented. ( Memento from May 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Press release from May 12, 2014.
↑ The dimensions of the Kirchentag. ( Memento from July 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Joy of approach and clear differences. Retrieved October 27, 2018 .
^ Statement by the Presidium of the German Evangelical Church Congress on why Christian groups with Jewish missionary intent and practice cannot be granted active participation in church days kirchentag.de, February 1, 2014.
↑ Committed to the Judeo-Christian dialogue: Christl Maier and Christina Aus der Au in conversation kirchentag.de
^ Criticism of the exclusion of messianic Jews from the Stuttgart Kirchentag evangelisch.de, May 21, 2014.
↑ De Maizière is against church asylum fr.de, February 10, 2015.
↑ Student priests call for de Maizière to resign from the Church Congress presidium on sonntag-sachsen.de, February 27, 2015.

↑ Finances. This is how the Kirchentag operates. Retrieved October 27, 2018 .

[1] German Evangelical Church Congress: Kirchentag 2015. Poster presented. ( Memento from May 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Press release from May 12, 2014.

[2] The dimensions of the Kirchentag. ( Memento from July 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

[3] Joy of approach and clear differences. Retrieved October 27, 2018 .

[4] Statement by the Presidium of the German Evangelical Church Congress on why Christian groups with Jewish missionary intent and practice cannot be granted active participation in church days kirchentag.de, February 1, 2014.

[5] Committed to the Judeo-Christian dialogue: Christl Maier and Christina Aus der Au in conversation kirchentag.de

[6] Criticism of the exclusion of messianic Jews from the Stuttgart Kirchentag evangelisch.de, May 21, 2014.

[7] De Maizière is against church asylum fr.de, February 10, 2015.

[sonntag_sachsen-8] Student priests call for de Maizière to resign from the Church Congress presidium on sonntag-sachsen.de, February 27, 2015.

[9] Finances. This is how the Kirchentag operates. Retrieved October 27, 2018 .