Pietism and German Inter-Confessional Nationalism
Beginning in the early nineteenth century, spokesmen for German nationalism invoked confessional reconciliation as a precondition for future unification. While the confessional divide between Catholics and Protestants seemed to hinder German unity, advocating ecumenical Christianity appeared to adva...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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Church history and religious culture
Year: 2019, Volume: 99, Issue: 1, Pages: 21-45 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Germany
/ Pietism
/ Ecumene
/ Nationalism
/ History 1650-1870
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBB German language area KDD Protestant Church KDJ Ecumenism |
| Further subjects: | B
Nationalism
B Ecumenism B Protestantism B Catholicism B Germany B Pietism |
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| Summary: | Beginning in the early nineteenth century, spokesmen for German nationalism invoked confessional reconciliation as a precondition for future unification. While the confessional divide between Catholics and Protestants seemed to hinder German unity, advocating ecumenical Christianity appeared to advance national consolidation. The article suggests that this endorsement of ecumenism was part of a tradition of confessional conciliation manifested in German Pietism since the seventeenth century. Early German Pietists sought ecumenical Christianity not merely in an eschatological sense, but also in a specific historical one. Nineteenth-century neo-Pietists nationalized and politicized these earlier ideas of interconfessional reconciliation. |
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| ISSN: | 1871-2428 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Church history and religious culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18712428-09901001 |