Reformationskirchen und die Herausforderung der jeweiligen nationalen Kultur: Skandinavien 1900-1950
This paper is about the challenge posed to the historic and universal Christian church by the institutionalization of the modern nation-state in the twentieth century. Scandinavia in the half-century 1900-1950 is used as an example. Especially serious for the modern democracies and the Lutheran Refo...
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| Language: | German |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
1999
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Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
Year: 1999, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 47-63 |
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| Summary: | This paper is about the challenge posed to the historic and universal Christian church by the institutionalization of the modern nation-state in the twentieth century. Scandinavia in the half-century 1900-1950 is used as an example. Especially serious for the modern democracies and the Lutheran Reformation churches of Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland, were the rise of the extreme nationalist Soviet Russian and Nazi German ideologies 'Socialism in One Country' and the 'Volksgemeinschaft'. The years following 1917,1933, and 1940 marking the German occupation of Denmark and Norway, were therefore little short of a trauma for church and people in these small Lutheran nations. The values of the national culture, and national solidarity including the Lutheran church as an intrinsic element became dominant. The legacy of 1945 was thus a very much increased politicization of these old Lutheran Reformation churches, despite the rediscovery of the institutional 'church' and the church universal by leading Scandinavian churchmen in the interwar period. The three sections in this paper are therefore concerned with the new constitutional structure and procedures in these Scandinavian churches, in particular the idea of the 'Peoples' Church, since the mid-nineteenth century; questions of competence between Church and State connected with the rise of the socialist welfare state in the interwar period; and finally with the Swedish ecumenical initiative personified by archbishop Söderblom (1914-1931). Remarkable was this rediscovery of the Church universal in this troubled time, and in the light of the remarkable rise and success of the secular Scandinavian welfare state after 1945. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-808X |
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