Ecclesiastical collection around the Bible and Confession

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The Church Collection of the Bible and Confession is a conservative Lutheran association that is active in various regional churches of the EKD . The organization is based on the Bible and the Lutheran Confessions . She sees the Evangelical Lutheran regional churches in danger of “moving further and further away from them and sacrificing their elementary beliefs to the zeitgeist ”. The EKD sees the collection as part of the confessional movement .

Head of the Church collection in Bavaria was 23 years of the 2014 deceased son of Walter Künneth , Friedrich-Wilhelm Künneth .

Position and classification

The association is referred to as a fringe group in the church-independent press. She campaigned against criticism of infant baptism in the 1960s . The collection is of the opinion that there is no longer a binding understanding of the Bible in the Evangelical Church in Germany. The EKD Parish Service Act , which enables homosexual clergy to live together in the rectory, is cited as an example . The movement does not share this position. An allegedly insufficient Christ orientation of the Evangelical Church is criticized, for example in the questioning of the message of the cross and resurrection of Jesus . The group opposes the “ Bible in Just Language ” and in this context called for the resignation of Lübeck's Bishop Bärbel Wartenberg-Potter .

Walter Künneth Prize

The Bavarian branch of the association awards the Walter Künneth Prize . It goes to personalities and works who “have made a biblical contribution to the preservation and dissemination of the Christian Reformation heritage in theology, preaching, diakonia and society”.

Known members (selection)

• Karl Hauschildt
• Joachim Heubach
• Ekkehard Hieronimus
• Ulrich Rüß

Websites of sections of the movement

• The ecclesiastical collection around the Bible and confession in the Ev.-Luth. Church in North Germany eV
• Church collection on the Bible and Confession Bavaria
• Denmark: Kirkelig Samling om Bibel og Bekendelse
• Evangelical Association for the Bible and Confession in Baden
• Evangelical collection in Württemberg

literature

• Angela Hager: A decade of hope. Reform groups in the Bavarian regional church 1966–1976. Göttingen 2010.
• Gisa Bauer : Evangelical Movement and Evangelical Church in the Federal Republic of Germany. History of a fundamental conflict (1945 to 1989). Göttingen 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauung questions: dispute in the church (PDF file; 169 kB)
2. ↑ For 23 years the theologian headed the Church Collection in Bavaria Profiled Lutherans: Friedrich-Wilhelm Künneth is dead Evangelical news agency idea January 27, 2014
3. ↑ Schleswig “And that's a good thing” . FAZ website. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
4. ↑ Der Spiegel: Church / Infant Baptism - Babies and Brothers 17/1969
5. ↑ sueddeutsche: Church and homosexuality The pastor and his husband November 15, 2010
6. ↑ factum-magazin.ch ( Memento from July 31, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
7. ↑ Welt: Conservative Christians call for the resignation of the bishop April 24, 2007