Evangelical Lutheran Society of Prayer
The Evangelical Lutheran Brotherhood of Prayer is an evangelical community . It is divided into the convents of North, Central and South Germany, each of which has its own story and merged in 1991.
The Central German Convention was founded in 1954. It emerged from a liturgical working group of cantors and students - mainly in Leipzig - which came from the Singwochen movement after 1945 and was inspired by the Lutheran revival in the St. Ulrici Brothers in Braunschweig.
The members of the brotherhood see it as their task
- read the Bible regularly and study the confessions of the Lutheran Church
- to pray for the Church and the Brotherhood and for one another in a formulation that applies to all of them,
- to practice the Divine Office of the Church and
- to stand up for the validity of the Lutheran creed.
The Evangelical Lutheran Prayer Brotherhood holds the hourly prayer according to its own German-language Leipzig breviary , which goes back to the cantors Erhart Paul and Friedrich Buchholz ( Church work Alpirsbach ). The meetings of the brothers are marked by the Divine Office according to this breviary.
Known members
- Jürgen Diestelmann (1928–2014), Lutheran theologian and pastor
- Jobst Schöne (* 1931), bishop emeritus of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Martin Wittenberg (1911–2001), professor of the Old Testament and liturgy in Neuendettelsau