Young Church
| Young Church
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| description | Theological quarterly |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Woltersburger Mühle eV ( Germany ) |
| First edition | 1933 |
| Frequency of publication | quarterly |
| Editor-in-chief | Klara Butting |
| editor | Gerard Minnaard (editor / managing director), Hans-Jürgen Benedict , Geertje-Froken Bolle, Klara Butting , Katrin Stückrath |
| Web link | www.jungekirche.de |
| Article archive | Rudiger Weyer |
| ISSN (print) | 0022-6319 |
The magazine Junge Kirche was founded by Günther Ruprecht (the then head of the Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht publishing house ) in Berlin in 1933 as the "Bulletin of the Young Reformation Movement ". It was published as a bi-monthly magazine by the Junge Kirche publishing house, which was founded especially for this purpose. The main topics were “Reformation Christianity”, “Political harmonization of the Protestant Church” and “Faith, Bible, Church and Society”. The "Junge Kirche" is the most important publication in the field of the national church press under Nazi rule .
history
1933 to 1941
The Young Reformation movement, to which some theologians and pastors such as Kurt Aland , Walter Künneth , Hanns Lilje and Martin Niemöller from Dahlem had come together, invited national and foreign media representatives to a press conference in the Berlin Hotel Adlon on May 9, 1933. With the “Call for Collection” presented there, it not only caused quite a stir, but also found great support in other cities. The " Young Reformers " wanted to work together against the National Socialist religious movement of German Christians.
The first edition of the "Junge Kirche", which campaigned against the political conformity of the Protestant Church, appeared on June 21, 1933 in Göttingen. This was preceded by five notices marked “confidential”, various leaflets and a memorandum. Just like the editor Hanns Lilje (1899–1977), Ruprecht, who was one of the founding members of the Young Reformation movement, pursued the goal of keeping the Protestant Church on a clear course and documenting the church struggle with the magazine .
In 1934 the “Junge Kirche” became an important journalistic organ and a source of information for the Confessing Church . Due to its criticism of the church policy of the “ German Christians ”, who advocated a harmonization of the churches, and the printing of news critical of the regime, the magazine came under GESTAPO's sights .
In 1938 the Ministry of Propaganda demanded that every issue must contain at least one “positive contribution”. Time and again, individual issues were confiscated. In addition to the editorial management, several employees of the publishing house jeopardized their freedom so that the mouthpiece of the church's resistance could appear. For example, the daring efforts of the sales representative Willy Müller have been handed down: he was regularly informed about scheduled searches by a friend who was employed in the Gestapo office in apparently insignificant private phone calls using the code "Falkenauge comes", then accelerated the dispatch and reached that only remaining copies were confiscated.
With the issue of May 31, 1941, shortly before the attack on the Soviet Union, the “Young Church” was discontinued in order to “free people and material for other war-important purposes”.
From 1949
Four years after the end of the Second World War , the Allied armed forces, through the German press committee, gave the “Junge Kirche” one of the first magazines to issue a new permission to print. She appeared in Oldenburg. The first post-war publishers were Oberkirchenrat Hermann Ehlers and Fritz Söhlmann . His successor was Oberkirchenrat Heinz Kloppenburg in 1951 , who then had a decisive influence on the magazine for over three decades. The “Junge Kirche” inherited the content of the “church struggle” in the Third Reich by campaigning against the rearmament of Germany and for reconciliation with the peoples of the East. At the time of the Cold War and anti-communism, she tried to establish a dialogue between East and West.
In the 1970s and 1980s the magazine became a voice of the peace movement that formed in the face of the nuclear threat, armament and the growing number of wars around the world. The “Young Church” kept the situation in the Third World in view by dealing with the liberation struggles in Africa, Asia and Latin America and providing a platform for discussion between pacifists and representatives of the liberation movements.
Topics of the “Conciliar Process for Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation” have been the focus of the magazine since the late 1980s.
Today the “Junge Kirche” offers a forum for liberation theologies , especially from Latin America, for Christian-Jewish and interreligious dialogue, for feminist theology and ecumenism . It deals with the importance of memory in connection with the Third Reich and the Holocaust , deals critically with the social consequences of globalization and the world economic system, deals with violence prevention and right-wing extremism , with bioethics in the " Decade to Overcome Violence " , Ecology and the social importance of religion and culture.
The magazine is published by Erev-Rav - Association for Biblical and Political Education eV
subjects
Issues since 2004
| year | 1st quarter | 2nd quarter | 3rd quarter | 4th quarter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Pray | Human word (will be published on June 1st, 2018) |
political-e-motions (will be published on 01.09.18) |
NN (will be published on December 1st, 2018) |
| 2017 | Peace in Jerusalem - peace on earth |
Stand up against hatred | transformation | grace |
| 2016 | The old testament | refuge | care for | who is we? |
| 2015 | Reformation and Bible | fundamentalism | eat | Abolish the war |
| 2014 | Europe | Learn to hear | depression | Living |
| 2013 | Follow | Images of God - images of man | Live a good life | Inheritance trauma |
| 2012 | Church on all channels | The Christ | GDR stories | The soul |
| 2011 | growth | The promised land | Many religions - one world |
There is a time to heal |
| 2010 | Climate justice | Evangelical profile | dementia | body |
| 2009 | Church music | Biblical spirituality | mission | Men |
| 2008 | Child given to us | We are so free | Money, money, money | Slow it down |
| 2007 | Saved - straightened | Church of the future | safety | Bible in righteous language |
| 2006 | As long as the earth stands | Europe to the east | Theology & Literature | Justice increases a people - poverty and wealth |
| 2005 | learn to die | Lesbians and gays under God's blessing | Commemoration | education |
| 2004 | Desert experiences | Set out | Headscarves | Economy (s) for life |
Issues 2001 to 2003
| year | January February | March April | May June | July August | September October | November December |
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| 2003 | 70 years of the Young Church |
Peace to Iraq | Ecumenical movement | Against adjustment to wealth and power | Church where? | humor |
| 2002 | Europe - without borders | Read bible | Overcoming violence |
water | In search of meaning - popular culture and everyday religion |
Christian- Muslim everyday life |
| 2001 | Churches in Eastern Europe | Fair first - another globalization | Women in motion | Images of God | Romania | birth |
literature
- Günther Ruprecht : The first years of the "Junge Kirche" , in: Junge Kirche 1983, p. 268 ff.
- Karl Herbert : Confessions between the lines. Sixty years ago the first issue of the “Junge Kirche” appeared in Junge Kirche 1993, p. 341 ff.
- Silvia Wagner: “We fight for a professing church”. Junge Kirche 1933–1941 , in: Junge Kirche 2003, issue 1: 70 years of the Junge Kirche , pp. 5–14.