Congregation day under the word

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The parish day under the word was a major event held at irregular intervals between 1973 and 2002 by evangelically minded Christians in the regional evangelical churches in Germany.

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The parish day under the word is organized by a sponsoring association, which is responsible for the confessional movement No other gospel , belongs to the Conference of Confessing Communities , the Gnadau Association , the YMCA , the German Evangelical Alliance and the Ludwig Hofacker Association and is financed by donations. Both the "Evangelical Weeks" and the "Community Days under the Word" of the Confessing Church and the first German Evangelical Church Days (DEKT) in the post-war period served as models .

history

The congregation day arose from the criticism that was expressed primarily from the ranks of the evangelical confessional movement in the run-up to DEKT 1973 in Düsseldorf. The theologian Gerhard Bergmann practiced in his article Please, check for yourself: Can a visit to the Kirchentag be recommended? Criticism of the then President of the Kirchentag Heinz Zahrnt . Bergmann saw Zahrnt's publication under the title Finality of the Enlightenment as an obvious contradiction to Scripture and Confession. The theologian Walter Künneth supported Bergmann's criticism of the pluralism of the Kirchentag in his essay Why a “No” to the Kirchentag 1973? and advised against attending the Kirchentag.

Due to the criticism of leading theologians from the ranks of the confessional movement at the 1973 Kirchentag, the federal working group of the confessional movement finally decided on June 19, 1972 not to participate in the Düsseldorf Kirchentag and instead to plan a Protestant congregation day under the word . On May 31, 1973, around 24,000 people accepted the invitation to Dortmund's Westfalenhalle.

The theologian Friedhelm Jung describes the difference between the church convention and the congregation convention. The leadership of the Kirchentag had given up the "absolute claim" of the Scriptures, which, however, had been considered fundamental by the Gemeindetag.

Further congregational days were held in Stuttgart in 1975, in Dortmund in 1977, in Stuttgart in 1978 and 1982, in Essen in 1984, again in Stuttgart in 1985, 1989 and 1992, in Siegen in 1994 and in Stuttgart in 2002.

The sponsoring association has now disbanded. The continuation of the content was most recently shown by the Christ Movement in Württemberg and many supporting organizations on Christ Day on June 19, 2014 in Stuttgart.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The sponsoring association "Community day under the word e. V." draws a positive balance of the 11th community day under the word in Stuttgart on May 30th. June 17, 2002, accessed November 11, 2011 .
  2. ↑ a b c Rolf Scheffbuch : Community day under the word. In: Helmut Burkhardt, Uwe Swarat (ed.): Evangelical Lexicon for Theology and Congregation. Volume 2: G - N. R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-417-24642-3 , p. 721.
  3. ^ A b Friedhelm Jung: The German evangelical movement. Basic lines of their history and theology (= Biblia et Symbiotica. Vol. 8). 3rd, expanded edition. Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-932829-21-2 , pp. 114ff. (At the same time: Marburg, University, dissertation, 1991).
  4. ↑ Friedhelm Jung: The German Evangelical Movement. Basic lines of their history and theology (= Biblia et Symbiotica. Vol. 8). 3rd, expanded edition. Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-932829-21-2 , pp. 115ff. (At the same time: Marburg, University, dissertation, 1991). Jung quotes Künneth in his dissertation: “Is the truth of the biblical word absolutely valid or just a relatively valid view alongside other religious conceptions? Does the Kirchentag recognize the 'absoluteness' of the biblical authority or is it under the slogan of different, equal statements of truth? "
  5. ↑ Bernhard Lang: The non-frustrated of Stuttgart - impressions from the "community day under the word" , in: Lutherische Monatshefte 24 (1985), 7, p