Word: protestantize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The German empire, German Lutherans believed, was the God-blessed state of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans. "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers," Paul had said, "for there is no power but of God." Luther had explained this himself, saying: "We must firmly establish...
Romans & Revelation. In 1918. Kaiser Wilhelm II, the last Supreme Bishop of German Lutheranism, abdicated. Throne and Altar fell apart, and the Protestant state church, after almost 400 years under the state's umbrella, was out in a misty modern world, on its own.
In 1945, the Church Council of the Berlin-Brandenburg diocese named Otto Dibelius as its bishop. With all the prestige of his new title, he began a continuing effort toward two goals: 1) preserving the church's ministry in East Germany; 2) trying to do what he could for...
In 1948, at Eisenach, near Luther's old refuge in the castle of the Wartburg, the representatives of Germany's Protestants -seven-eighths Lutheran and the rest Calvinists of the Reformed faith-met to consider a church union. At a crucial moment in a long and stalemated discussion...
The great advantage of the E.K.D. is that it enables German Protestants to speak with a single voice. The E.K.D., for instance, now has an official representative in Bonn, to keep an eye on legislation, e.g., the Protestants are as firm as German Catholics in defending religious instruction in German...