RT Article T1 Lutheran Orthodoxy and the Beginning of Conservative Party Organization in Prussia JF Church history VO 37 IS 4 SP 439 OP 453 A1 Lamberti, Marjorie LA English PB Cambridge Univ. Press YR 1968 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1779558341 AB Since 1945 German historians, searching for answers to the question of the responsibility of the political parties for the failure of the Weimar Republic, have studied afresh the organization and political activity of parties in Germany. Their work concentrates on the history of parties after 1870, when they became centralized, mass organizations, and treats in a cursory manner the earlier stages in the formation of parties.1 In so far as recent and earlier historical studies delve into the period before 1870, they trace the origins of parties in Prussia to the Revolution of 1848. The relation of these parties to the partisan groupings that were formed in the territorial church during the Vormärz is overlooked. DO 10.2307/3162260