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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Spencer, Heath

Titel

Die Kirchen der Union. Geschichte – Theologie – Perspektiven. Edited by Johannes Ehmann. Pp. 276 incl. 2 ills and 2 tables. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2019. €35 (paper). 978 3 374 06009 2

Ist Teil von

• The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2021, Vol.72 (1), p.208-210

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Enlightenment had already weakened attachment to the historic confessions of faith that divided German Protestants, and the 300-year anniversary of the Reformation in 1817 fostered a climate of Protestant solidarity that aligned with state policy. A final essay by Anne Heitmann sums up what united or uniting Churches have to offer the broader ecumenical movement: ‘the ability to live with differences’, readiness ‘to give up one's own in favor of unity’, ‘rich experience … making room for others’ and service as ‘ambassadors for reconciliation and peace’ (pp. 259–60). The anti-Catholic inflection of nineteenth-century Protestant solidarity also stands in contrast to the ecumenical and interfaith work celebrated by various authors in part D. Regrettably, neither Ehmann nor the other contributors systematically explores such continuities and discontinuities, nor are other agendas transparent.