Jesus-People

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The Jesus People are a Christian group that emerged from the hippie movement on the American west coast in the 1960s and 1970s (peak: 1971/72) and then expanded to North America and Europe.

Pastor Volkhard Spitzer , who was also known as the “Jesus People Pastor”, took a large part in the Jesus People movement in Germany .

The Jesus people took over part of the hippie ideology, but put it in a new context: For example, “ free love ” became free love for God and people ( agape , charity ). In their lifestyle, the Jesus People orientated themselves towards early Christianity . Most of the Jesus people lived in communes , with the exception of the Calvary Chapel Movement. They had strong beliefs in the supernatural , in signs, wonders, and in obsession and exorcism .

With the fall of the hippie culture, the Jesus people also lost their importance. The Jesus People USA are one of the last groups in the movement. There are also some smaller Jesus People communities in Germany. The Jesus Freaks are closely connected to the development of the Jesus People .

literature

  • Anton Schulte: The Jesus Movement in USA. A personal travelogue. Brendow, Rheinkamp-Baerl 1972.
  • Siegfried Großmann: Article Jesus People , in: Evangelical Lexicon for Theology and Congregation, Vol. 2. R. Brockhaus Verlag, Wuppertal + Zurich 1993, p. 996.
  • Larry Eskridge: God's forever family: The Jesus people movement in America . Oxford University Press, New York 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-532645-1 .
  • Richard A. Bustraan: The Jesus people movement: A story of spiritual revolution among the hippies . Pickwick Publications (an imprint by Wipf and Stock), Eugene (Oregon) 2014, ISBN 978-1-62032-464-6 (Revised version of his dissertation, University of Birmingham , 2011).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Origin of the Jesus-People movement in Germany under Pastor Volkhard Spitzer ( Memento from May 28, 2005 in the Internet Archive )