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Church in Motion
"Mission is nothing but the one church of God in motion." With these words the famous German Lutheran theologian Wilhelm Loehe described the essence of missionary work. Mission moves the church and crosses boundaries to form the one universal church. In 1842, Loehe started missionary work in the small Bavarian town of Neuendettelsau in southern Germany, as he sent two young men as "emergency helpers" to North America. He supported the formation of Lutheran congregations that later joined together to become the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS). Together with Friedrich Bauer he founded a mission seminary that sent, until 1985, nearly 9...
Vowed to Community or Ordained to Mission?
Lena Böttcher offers an overdue exploration of the early years of the deaconess community in Neuendettelsau from a gender perspective. Drawing on rich archival material, she focuses on the process of a distinctive collective identity. Central to this study is the assumption, drawn from the social sciences, that collective identity is a social construction which requires the participation of the whole group through identification and which is consolidated by developing specific rituals, symbols, codes and normative texts, which facilitate integration, and by constructing external boundaries, which separate from the world and the wider church. This approach highlights the fact that the women were not merely passive recipients but participated and contributed to the formation of a distinct Neuendettelsau deaconess culture. Thus, this study offers an explanation for the popularity such institutes enjoyed amongst single and widowed Protestant women in the latter half of the nineteenth century. In consequence, this study significantly widens the scope of historical research on the Institute which so far has tended to take into account solely the male perspective of the Rektoren.
Wilhelm Loehe and North America
Wilhelm Loehe is one of the most significant nineteenth-century figures for North American church life and mission, whose influence continues into the present. Loehe is unique for joining together aspects of the Christian life often held to be antithetical: worship and mission, orthodoxy and pietism, evangelical proclamation and diakonia, and theological imagination and practical skill in administration. Already in the nineteenth century Loehe contributed a vital principle for advancing ecumenical understanding: the idea of "open questions." When the church confesses core teachings as one, there does not need to be agreement on all secondary matters in order to live together in church fellowship. This book explores Loehe's historical activity as a pastor, as a supporter of mission in North America, as an organizer (together with Friedrich Bauer) of theological education in North America, and as a founder of deaconess institutions in Neuendettelsau, Germany, that still exist today. The central themes represented by Loehe not only constitute a matrix that has significance for the church and its mission today but also constitute an agenda for the church of the future.
Zwangsarbeit in Rheinland-Pfalz während des Zweiten Weltkriegs
Die seit einigen Jahren gefuehrte Diskussion um die Entsch�digung von Zwangsarbeitskr�ften, die von 1939 bis 1945 unter oft unmenschlichen Bedingungen die Kriegswirtschaft des nationalsozialistischen Deutschland in Gang halten mussten, hat ein lange verdr�ngtes und in der Forschung vernachl�ssigtes Kapitel der juengeren deutschen Geschichte ins �ffentliche Bewusstsein gerueckt. Vor allem regional- und lokalgeschichtliche Studien k�nnen anschaulich belegen, dass Zwangsarbeit w�hrend der Kriegsjahre im �Dritten Reich� allgegenw�rtig war. Zwangsarbeiter und Zwangsarbeiterinnen waren in gro�er Zahl in der Gro�industrie, in Mittel- und Kleinbetrieben, bei der Reichsbahn un...
Lutherjahrbuch 82. Jahrgang 2015
Das Lutherjahrbuch ist das bedeutendste Organ der internationalen Lutherforschung und wird im Auftrag der Luther-Gesellschaft herausgegeben. Der 82. Jahrgang versammelt acht Aufsätze, die von Luthers poetisch-theologischer Stilisierung der 1523 in Antwerpen hingerichteten Anhängern über einen Mordanschlag auf Luther selbst bis hin zum Gedenken der Heidelberger Disputation im 19. Jahrhundert reichen. Eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme analysiert das Verhältnis von Reformationsgeschichte und Adelsforschung. Zwei Beiträge erkunden die Rezeption evangelischer Gehalte in den Bildern Lucas Cranachs und Peter Dells. Neben ausgewählten Buchbesprechungen, die über zentrale Veröffentlichungen der Luther- und Reformationsforschung berichten, verzeichnet die Lutherbibliographie fortlaufend Neuerscheinungen über Luther und seine Wirkung. Für die gesamte Lutherforschung ist sie ein unverzichtbares Arbeitsinstrument.
