The Theological Declaration of Barmen of 1934, the 'Magna Charta' of the Confessional Church, is one of the most famous ecclesiastical texts of the 20th century. Its historical influence is iridescent, mainly because the declaration was used to legi…

English summary: This edition of conference papers analyses in what ways Protestantism and the new social movements interacted with each other during the 1960s and 1970s, years that were marked by dynamism and liberalization. German description: Den…

Christian Resistance ? Protestant Church and National Socialism How did Protestant Christians express their opposition against the regime in the times of National Socialism? This book presents concrete examples of acts of resistance reaching from a…

The history of the Church and Christianity since the end of the First World War is increasingly moving into the focus of academic and public historical interest. Within the framework of a four-volume, handbook-like overall presentation of contempora…

Why did the Protestant culture of remembrance discover the clergyman Karl Friedrich Stellbrink, who was executed by the National Socialists, for itself only in the 1980s? Why are church leaders like the Bavarian regional bishop Hans Meiser, who have…