HEALING THE WOUNDS OF HISTORY: THE STUTTGART DECLARATION OF GUILT (1945) AS A CONSTITUTIVE ACT OF THE POST-WAR GERMAN EVANGELICAL CHURCH

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dc.coverageSTUDIA UBB THEOLOGIA ORTHODOXA, LXII, No. 2, 2017 (p. 183 – 193)en-US
dc.creatorKOPIEC, Piotr
dc.date2017-12-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-21T23:34:36Z
dc.descriptionThe history of both societies and social institutions provides us with the examples of whether acts or documents, which, while expressing various ideas and values, have become sources of political, social and cultural inspirations as well as reference points for active struggling for these ideas and values. The examples of such documents are numerous: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN, the Constitutions of particular states, the Treaty of Maastricht as a founding act of the European Union. Another illustration of such an historic document is also the Stuttgart Declaration of Guilt (Die Stuttgarter Schulderklärung), which was released in 1945 by the Evangelical Church of Germany and today is declared to be one of its most fundamental acts. The document was prepared by the group of theologians and church leaders who were involved in the resistant movement against the German Nazi-state. The declaration confirmed an awareness on the part of the German Evangelicals that the Protestant Churches in Germany were also held responsible for the moral disaster of Nazism, even though their blame consisted, above all, in a passive attitude towards evil. The paper surveys the main aspects of the history of declaration and attempts to provide a brief reflection on its theological and sociological importance. Furthermore, it stresses the links between the secularization processes and the nationalism reflected in the history of the German state and German church.en-US
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dc.identifierhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbtheologiaorthodoxa/article/view/3925
dc.identifier10.24193/subbto.2017.2.10
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14637/3307
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherBabeș-Bolyai University / Cluj University Pressen-US
dc.relationhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbtheologiaorthodoxa/article/view/3925/3790
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2017 Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Theologia Orthodoxaen-US
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en-US
dc.sourceStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Theologia Orthodoxa; Volume 62, No. 2, December 2017; 183 – 193en-US
dc.source2065-9474
dc.source1224-0869
dc.source10.24193/subbto.2017.2
dc.subjectThe Stuttgart Declaration of Guilt, Evangelical Church in Germany, nationalism, secularismen-US
dc.titleHEALING THE WOUNDS OF HISTORY: THE STUTTGART DECLARATION OF GUILT (1945) AS A CONSTITUTIVE ACT OF THE POST-WAR GERMAN EVANGELICAL CHURCHen-US
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dc.typePeer-reviewed Articleen-US
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