Logo image
Saving Germany: North American Protestants and Christian Mission to West Germany, 1945–1974
Journal article   Peer reviewed

Saving Germany: North American Protestants and Christian Mission to West Germany, 1945–1974

Fides et historia, Vol.51(2), pp.192-194
01/07/2019

Abstract

Armed forces Christianity Cold War Evangelicalism Graham, Billy Historians Religion Religious missions Religious organizations
Emphasizing the agency of indigenous actors in mission, they affirmed German Protestant leaders were well-positioned to restore their place in ecumenical Christianity following the war. [...]the German-American Protestant exchange loses some of its historical complexity, and the agency of German Protestants in these partnerships is diminished. For historians of religion and mission, Enns's description of missional divergence within Protestantism helps explain in part how evangelical Protestants in both the United States and West Germany increased their share of the religious marketplace in the face of secularization, while ecumenical Protestants slid further into post-Protestant secularism.

Metrics

386 Record Views

Details

Logo image