Die Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland und die vertriebenen Ostdeutschen: [Vortrag auf der Jahrestagung des Vereins für Schlesische Kirchengeschichte vom 29. September - 1. Oktober 2010 in Wiesbaden]

Based on the debates within current German society on the expulsion of millions of Germans from what was the East germany (Silesia, East Prussia, Pomerania etc.) and Eastern as well as South-Eastern Europe at and the after the end of World War II, the article deals with the attitude of the Evangelis...

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Main Author: Wendebourg, Dorothea 1952- (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:German
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Published: Mohr Siebeck 2011
In: Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche
Year: 2011, Volume: 108, Issue: 1, Pages: 16-49
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Refugee / Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland / History 1949-1966
B Germans / Expulsion / History 1945-1949 / Coming to terms with the past / Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland
IxTheo Classification:KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBB German language area
KDD Protestant Church
RG Pastoral care
SA Church law; state-church law
SD Church law; Protestant Church
Further subjects:B flight / refugees / expulsion
B State law of churches
B Protestant Church
B Flüchtlinge / Flight / Expulsion
B Church law
B Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland / Protestant Church in Germany / EKD
B Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland / EKD
B Germany
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Summary:Based on the debates within current German society on the expulsion of millions of Germans from what was the East germany (Silesia, East Prussia, Pomerania etc.) and Eastern as well as South-Eastern Europe at and the after the end of World War II, the article deals with the attitude of the Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland (EDK) towards this expulsion and the expellees after the war, it examines the church's theological interpretation of the expulsion. It then looks at the ecclesiological principles which guided the integration of the exepllees into the churches of the EKD.The article advocates the recovery of an ecclesio-cultural memory that includes the rich heritage of East German Protestantism
ISSN:0044-3549
Contains:In: Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche