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3 days ago · Two main developments reshaped religion in Germany after 1814. There was a movement to unite the larger Lutheran and the smaller Reformed Protestant churches. The churches themselves brought this about in Baden, Nassau, and Bavaria.
Apr 17, 2024 · People in East Germany had arranged their entire lives around the idea that they were working toward building a socialist state, Bach explains, but the unification with West Germany, which ...
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1 day ago · The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.
5 days ago · Thomas Kaufmann’s Saved and the Damned is one of the German books published during the quincentennial of Luther’s Reformation, now available in a superb English translation. It is a brief survey history of this world-changing event, very scholarly, yet highly accessible to a broad range of non-experts, including students.
Apr 18, 2024 · Dietrich Bonhoeffer (born February 4, 1906, Breslau, Germany [now Wrocław, Poland]—died April 9, 1945, Flossenbürg, Germany) was a German Protestant theologian important for his support of ecumenism and his view of Christianity’s role in a secular world.
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Apr 15, 2024 · The number of people benefiting from church asylum in Germany has grown over the last decades. Until the mid-2010s, there were fewer than 100 cases per year, but there was a dramatic increase from 79 cases in 2013 to 430 cases in 2014. Between 2014 and 2018, the numbers continued to rise, amounting to an impressive total of 1325 cases in 2018.
1 day ago · Nazi Germany was an overwhelmingly Christian nation. A census in May 1939, six years into the Nazi era [1] after the annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia [2] into Germany, indicates [3] that 54% of the population considered itself Protestant, 41% considered itself Catholic, 3.5% self-identified as Gottgläubig [4] (lit. "believing in God ...
