Saving Germany: North American Protestants and Christian mission to West Germany, 1945-1974
"This book explores the efforts of North American Protestant missionaries to rebuild and evangelize postwar Germany. The combination of Germany's failed experiment with National Socialism, its devastation from Allied bombs, and its early postwar reception of displaced people and refugees f...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "This book explores the efforts of North American Protestant missionaries to rebuild and evangelize postwar Germany. The combination of Germany's failed experiment with National Socialism, its devastation from Allied bombs, and its early postwar reception of displaced people and refugees from Eastern Europe transformed the image of Germany in the minds of North American Protestants. In the US, effective lobbying by the Federal Council of Churches helped soften the administration's initial imposition of a harsh peace on Germany thus allowing voluntary aid from North American churches to flow into the country. This set the stage for a concerted missionary response from mission agencies which lasted through the Cold War period. Enns tracks this transnational Christian engagement in Germany from 1945 until the mid-1970s. He argues that North American Protestants (Canadians and Americans) engaged in two different kinds of mission work, and can be organized into three groups. Those from mainline Protestant denominations comfortable within the emerging ecumenical movement tended to see Nazism as an aberration in German history and understood their chief aim as the reconstruction of Germany and its churches. This included not only physical reconstruction but also the international rehabilitation of German Protestant leaders and the promotion of democracy within church institutions. Those from conservative evangelical traditions tended to see Germany as a post-Christian nation in need of reconversion and understood their chief aim as evangelization; this included the organization of mass evangelistic revivals, the production of Christian print material and radio programming, and the training of Christian preachers, teachers, and leaders. A third group--denominational missionaries from Mennonite, Baptist, Salvation Army, and Quaker traditions--engaged in both relief and evangelistic work. Enn selects a small number of mission organizations from each of these three groups to serve as case studies, which form the basis of the main chapters. The study pursues several ideas and lines of argument: the shift in North American Protestant missionary self-understanding from evangelization to assistance towards self-help, as well as the growing rift within the missions; the important ideological support North American missionaries gave to US foreign policy goals of the promotion of democracy and opposition to communism; the impact of North American missionary work on Protestant churches in West Germany; developments in 'world Christianity,' as Europe became identified as a post-Christian mission field; the significance of religious actors and the religious sphere in the cultural history of 'Americanization'".-- |
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments | xiii
Abbreviations | xvii
Introduction: Saving Germany: Not Your Typical Mission Field | 3
1 Ecumenical Protestants and the Reconstruction of Germany, 1945-
1974: Mainline Protestants Offer Relief and Rehabilitation | 26
2 Denominational Protestant Missions to Germany, 1945-1974*
Mennonites and Baptists Resuscitate and Rehabilitate the
Freikirchen | 60
3 Conservative Evangelical Mission to Germany, 1945-1974: Two Case
Studies | 103
4 Billy Graham’s Mission to Germany, 1945-1974: From Cold War
Crusader to Good Samaritan | 141
5 Mission to Germany after 1974: Responding to Post-Christendom
Secularism ] 176
Conclusion: Saving Germany: The Significance of the Mission | 203
Notes | 223
References | 277
Index | 301 |
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| spelling | Enns, James C. 1959- Verfasser (DE-588)1128735059 aut Saving Germany North American Protestants and Christian mission to West Germany, 1945-1974 James C. Enns Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago McGill-Queen's University Press [2017] © 2017 xviii, 308 Seiten Karten txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series 2 77 "This book explores the efforts of North American Protestant missionaries to rebuild and evangelize postwar Germany. The combination of Germany's failed experiment with National Socialism, its devastation from Allied bombs, and its early postwar reception of displaced people and refugees from Eastern Europe transformed the image of Germany in the minds of North American Protestants. In the US, effective lobbying by the Federal Council of Churches helped soften the administration's initial imposition of a harsh peace on Germany thus allowing voluntary aid from North American churches to flow into the country. This set the stage for a concerted missionary response from mission agencies which lasted through the Cold War period. Enns tracks this transnational Christian engagement in Germany from 1945 until the mid-1970s. He argues that North American Protestants (Canadians and Americans) engaged in two different kinds of mission work, and can be organized into three groups. Those from mainline Protestant denominations comfortable within the emerging ecumenical movement tended to see Nazism as an aberration in German history and understood their chief aim as the reconstruction of Germany and its churches. This included not only physical reconstruction but also the international rehabilitation of German Protestant leaders and the promotion of democracy within church institutions. Those from conservative evangelical traditions tended to see Germany as a post-Christian nation in need of reconversion and understood their chief aim as evangelization; this included the organization of mass evangelistic revivals, the production of Christian print material and radio programming, and the training of Christian preachers, teachers, and leaders. A third group--denominational missionaries from Mennonite, Baptist, Salvation Army, and Quaker traditions--engaged in both relief and evangelistic work. Enn selects a small number of mission organizations from each of these three groups to serve as case studies, which form the basis of the main chapters. The study pursues several ideas and lines of argument: the shift in North American Protestant missionary self-understanding from evangelization to assistance towards self-help, as well as the growing rift within the missions; the important ideological support North American missionaries gave to US foreign policy goals of the promotion of democracy and opposition to communism; the impact of North American missionary work on Protestant churches in West Germany; developments in 'world Christianity,' as Europe became identified as a post-Christian mission field; the significance of religious actors and the religious sphere in the cultural history of 'Americanization'".-- Evangelische Kirche Geschichte 1900-2000 Geschichte 1945-1974 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte Evangelische Kirche (DE-588)4015833-0 gnd rswk-swf Mission (DE-588)4039567-4 gnd rswk-swf Deutschland Bundesrepublik (DE-588)4011889-7 gnd rswk-swf Nordamerika (DE-588)4042483-2 gnd rswk-swf Protestant churches / Missions / Germany (West) / History / 20th century Protestants / Germany (West) / History / 20th century Evangelicalism / Germany (West) / History / 20th century Missions, Canadian / Germany (West) / History / 20th century Missions, American / Germany (West) / History / 20th century Evangelicalism Missions, American Missions, Canadian Protestant churches / Missions Protestants Germany (West) 1900-1999 History Nordamerika (DE-588)4042483-2 g Mission (DE-588)4039567-4 s Evangelische Kirche (DE-588)4015833-0 s Deutschland Bundesrepublik (DE-588)4011889-7 g Geschichte 1945-1974 z DE-604 Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, ePDF 978-0-7735-4914-2 Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, ePUB 978-0-7735-4915-9 McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series 2 77 (DE-604)BV002493658 10077 Digitalisierung BSB Muenchen - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=029616308&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| spellingShingle | Enns, James C. 1959- Saving Germany North American Protestants and Christian mission to West Germany, 1945-1974 McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series 2 Evangelische Kirche Geschichte Evangelische Kirche (DE-588)4015833-0 gnd Mission (DE-588)4039567-4 gnd |
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| title | Saving Germany North American Protestants and Christian mission to West Germany, 1945-1974 |
| title_auth | Saving Germany North American Protestants and Christian mission to West Germany, 1945-1974 |
| title_exact_search | Saving Germany North American Protestants and Christian mission to West Germany, 1945-1974 |
| title_full | Saving Germany North American Protestants and Christian mission to West Germany, 1945-1974 James C. Enns |
| title_fullStr | Saving Germany North American Protestants and Christian mission to West Germany, 1945-1974 James C. Enns |
| title_full_unstemmed | Saving Germany North American Protestants and Christian mission to West Germany, 1945-1974 James C. Enns |
| title_short | Saving Germany |
| title_sort | saving germany north american protestants and christian mission to west germany 1945 1974 |
| title_sub | North American Protestants and Christian mission to West Germany, 1945-1974 |
| topic | Evangelische Kirche Geschichte Evangelische Kirche (DE-588)4015833-0 gnd Mission (DE-588)4039567-4 gnd |
| topic_facet | Evangelische Kirche Geschichte Mission Deutschland Bundesrepublik Nordamerika |
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