Conference of Confessing Communities in the Evangelical Churches in Germany

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The Conference of Confessing Communities in the Evangelical Churches in Germany (KBG) was founded in 1970 as a counterweight to the “modern theology” of the EKD . It is the umbrella organization of various conservative evangelical and evangelical collective movements in Germany and is a member of the International Conference of Confessing Communities (IKBG).

history

The Conference of Confessing Communities came into being at the suggestion of the Tübingen missiologist Professor Peter Beyerhaus in October 1970 as an - initially loose - working group of the associations organized in it.

It was founded in the context of a conservative evangelical awakening that had taken shape in (West) Germany in the mid-1960s. The founding of educational establishments such as the STH Basel (formerly FETA) and FTH Gießen (formerly FTA), which strive for an alternative "biblical" theological education to state universities, can also be attributed to him . The reason for the upheaval was the strongly rational, demythologizing biblical interpretations by the theologian Rudolf Bultmann in the 1950s, which found their way to a number of church pulpits, as well as an openly socially critical attitude in the Protestant church that was perceived as increasing politicization , against which a counter-movement from conservatives opposed Church circles formed. This looked for the way back to a church with the most literal interpretation of the Bible and conservative hierarchies. At the same time, she saw it as her task to counteract developments in the state and society that were not in accordance with the Bible and therefore harmful.

Founding members of the conference were the confessional movement “No other gospel” , the Church Collection on the Bible and Confession , the Church Collection on the Bible and Confession in Bavaria , the Evangelical Collection in Berlin and the Ludwig Hofacker Association in Württemberg. However, it is not their leadership group but their theological convent that is classified as the relevant organ . This convention was divided into five sections:

I. Biblical-systematic theology
II. Mission, evangelism and ecumenism
III. Practical theology
IV. Church and Environment
V. Family and upbringing

Here, chaired by Walter Künneth and Peter Beyerhaus, a number of pronouncements were drawn up, including the “Frankfurt Declaration on the Fundamental Crisis of Mission”, the “Berlin Ecumenical Declaration”, “Save Life! The watchman's call to threaten the moral order ”,“ Mission among Israel today too ”,“ One world, one religion? The Syncretistic Threat to Our Faith in the New Age ”. In 1980 the quarterly magazine Diakrisis came out. Help to distinguish between spiritual currents in church and world . (see also list of Christian magazines )

The confessional movement “No other gospel” can be seen as the spokesperson in the KBG and the most active of the confessing communities. Employees in this leading association of the KBG, as well as in the important theological convention of the conference, was the now emeritus STH and EFT professor Georg Huntemann , who has published his socio-political views in numerous books since the 1960s and has been pastor of the avowed St. Martini congregation in Bremen .

The Gnadau Community Association left the Conference of Confessing Communities in 1991 on the grounds that the conference was essentially held together by rejecting modernity . This rejection of modernity in German society today can be seen as fundamentally supported by both the New Right and the traditionalists of the Roman Catholic Church .

Conference members

(see also the section on associations in the list of important institutions and works of the evangelical movement in Germany )

Church collection on the Bible and Confession in Bavaria
Ecclesiastical collection of the Bible and Confession in the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church, which was followed in 1985 by the establishment of the Confessing Community of North Elbia.

former:

The church collection on the Bible and Confession in Bavaria, organized under the umbrella organization of the KBG, today counts the following collections among its sister associations:

  • Braunschweig: Ecclesiastical collection on the Bible and confession
  • Westphalia: Ecclesiastical collection around the Bible and confession
  • Saxony: Evangelical Lutheran Confessional Community

as well as those already mentioned above:

  • Baden: Evangelical Association for the Bible and Confession
  • Berlin-Brandenburg: Evangelical Collection
  • Northern Elbe (Hamburg, Lübeck, Schleswig): Church collection on the Bible and Confession
  • Württemberg: Ludwig Hofacker Association

literature

  • Rolf Scheffbuch: The “Stillen im Lande” have their say (1951–1961). In: How did it come about? Church developments in Württemberg since 1951 , part 2. (printed in: Lebendige Gemeinde 12/1998)
  • Friedhelm Jung: The German Evangelical Movement. Baselines of their history and theology. (Zugl .: Marburg, Univ., Diss., 1991) 3rd, extended edition, Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-932829-21-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Reinhard Scheerer: Confessing Christians in the Protestant Churches in Germany 1966-1991. History and shape of a conservative evangelical awakening. Haag and Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-86137-560-5 , p. 17ff, and p. 29f.
  2. ↑ Reinhard Scheerer: Confessing Christians in the Protestant Churches in Germany 1966-1991. History and shape of a conservative evangelical awakening. Haag and Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-86137-560-5 , p. 8ff.
  3. ↑ Friedhelm Jung: The German Evangelical Movement. Baselines of their history and theology. (Zugl .: Marburg, Univ., Diss., 1991) 3rd, extended edition, Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-932829-21-2 , p. 108f.
  4. ↑ Friedhelm Jung: The German Evangelical Movement. Baselines of their history and theology. (Zugl .: Marburg, Univ., Diss., 1991) 3rd, extended edition, Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-932829-21-2 , pp. 106f.
  5. ↑ a b Reinhard Scheerer: Confessing Christians in the Protestant Churches in Germany 1966-1991. History and shape of a conservative evangelical awakening. Haag and Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-86137-560-5 , p. 28f.
  6. ↑ Friedhelm Jung: The German Evangelical Movement. Baselines of their history and theology. (Zugl .: Marburg, Univ., Diss., 1991) 3rd, extended edition, Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-932829-21-2 , p. 108.
  7. ↑ Georg Huntemann: This church has to be different! End of the national church - future of the confessional church. Verlag der Liebenzeller Mission, Bad Liebenzell 1979, ISBN 3-88002-080-9 , information on the spine.
  8. ↑ a b Reinhard Scheerer: Confessing Christians in the Protestant Churches in Germany 1966-1991. History and shape of a conservative evangelical awakening. Haag and Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-86137-560-5 , pp. 160ff.
  9. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Reinhard Scheerer: Confessing Christians in the Protestant Churches in Germany 1966-1991. History and shape of a conservative evangelical awakening. Haag and Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-86137-560-5 , p. 23ff.
  10. ↑ Junge Freiheit : Evangelical Church: Otto Graf zu Rantzau on the dispute within the North Elbian Church. "There is always church struggle." by Hans B. von Sothen, April 3, 1998.
  11. ↑ Friedhelm Jung: The German Evangelical Movement. Baselines of their history and theology. (Zugl .: Marburg, Univ., Diss., 1991) 3rd, extended edition, Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-932829-21-2 , p. 107
    or Reinhard Scheerer: Bekennende Christisten in den Protestant churches in Germany 1966-1991. History and shape of a conservative evangelical awakening. Haag and Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-86137-560-5 , p. 23ff and p. 160f.
  12. ↑ Church collection on the Bible and Confession in Bavaria: The Conference of Confessing Communities (KBG) is our national umbrella organization.
  13. ^ Church collection on the Bible and Confession in Bavaria: Church collections.