Alternative Strategies in East and West?: The German Churches’ Responses to the Programme to Combat Racism in the 1970s

This article describes church reactions in the two German states in the 1970s to the Programme to Combat Racism of the World Council of Churches (WCC). The decision of the WCC in 1970 to support liberation movements in Southern Africa provoked a conflict between the WCC and the Evangelical Church in...

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Main Author: Williamson, Roger (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2021
In: The ecumenical review
Year: 2021, Volume: 73, Issue: 2, Pages: 234-252
IxTheo Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBB German language area
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
KDD Protestant Church
KDJ Ecumenism
Further subjects:B World Council of Churches
B liberation movements
B Southern Africa
B Programme to Combat Racism
B Ernst Lange
B Evangelical Church in Germany
B German Democratic Republic
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Summary:This article describes church reactions in the two German states in the 1970s to the Programme to Combat Racism of the World Council of Churches (WCC). The decision of the WCC in 1970 to support liberation movements in Southern Africa provoked a conflict between the WCC and the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) in West Germany. The Protestant Churches in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) supported the programme. The EKD sought to develop an alternative strategy based on talks with firms investing in South Africa and support for exclusively nonviolent organizations. The article describes this alternative strategy and its failure. The article reviews the analyses of ecumenist Ernst Lange (1927-74). It comments on South Africa’s transition to democracy and contemporary challenges in the light of the WCC 11th Assembly theme.
ISSN:1758-6623
Contains:Enthalten in: The ecumenical review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/erev.12601