Eisenach Federation
The Eisenacher Bund was an organization founded in 1905 that wanted to mediate between the Protestant regional churches in Germany, academic theology and the community movement .
history
The Eisenacher Bund goes back to the initiative of the mission theologian Johannes Lepsius , who saw himself as a supporter of the community movement, but was attacked for his criticism of the doctrine of rebirth and his advocacy of the historical-critical method . So he invited together with Samuel Keller and Theodor Jellinghaus to a conference in order to "bring about an understanding between the community movement and the circles of church orthodoxy close to it". Numerous personalities such as Friedrich von Bodelschwingh the Elder , but also representatives of university theology such as Adolf Schlatter , Hermann Cremer , Martin Kähler , Karl Heim (theologian) and Wilhelm Lütgert , supported the call and took part in the conference from May 26th to 28th, 1902 . In the following two years, continuation conferences were held in Eisenach, and in 1904 the Eisenach Association for Church Evangelism and for the Care of Church Community and Protestant Life was founded.
From 1905 the association called itself the Eisenacher Bund and established itself as a working group that turned against “the endeavors of modern theology and against radical currents in the community movement”. The federal government held annual meetings (interrupted 1917–1920) until 1945, but could no longer build on its initial success (with 398 participants at the first conference in 1902). The circles close to the Blankenburg Alliance Conference and increasingly also the Gnadauer Verband stayed away from him, so that he cannot be counted as part of the community movement in the narrower sense.
literature
- Dieter Lange: A movement is breaking through. The German communities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and their position on the church, theology and Pentecostal movement . Fountain, pouring u. a. 1979, pp. 141-151.
- Walter Fleischmann-Bisten : Eisenacher Bund . In: Religion Past and Present (RGG). 4th edition. Volume 2, Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen 1999, Sp. 1178-1179.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quoted from Peter Müller: All knowledge of God arises from reason and revelation: Wilhelm Lütgert's contribution to theological epistemology . Lit, Münster 2012, p. 86.
- ↑ Dieter Lange: A movement breaks out. The German communities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and their position on the church, theology and Pentecostal movement . Fountain, pouring u. a. 1979, p. 150f.