The Lutheran Church and the East German State : : Political Conflict and Change under Ulbricht and Honecker / / Robert Goeckel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Goeckel, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 1 map
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Abbreviations and German Terms --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Church and State --; 3. Socialist Transformation and the German Question, 1945-1958 --; 4. The EKD Split and Formation of the Kirchenbund, 19 5 8-1969 --; 5. Nonrecognition of the Kirchenbund, 1969-1971 --; 6. From Recognition to Limited Rapprochement, 197I-1972 --; 7. Deepening Rapprochement, 1973-1978 --; 8. Testing the New Relationship, I978-I989 --; 9. The Character and Limitations of Change --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501745836; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501745836
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Robert Goeckel.

Robert Goeckel here explains why, despite the ideological antagonism between Marxism–Leninism and Christianity, a working relationship developed between East Germany's Communist rulers and the country's Evangelical Lutheran Church. By reconstructing how the church won a measure of autonomy and became a forum for dissent, The Lutheran Church and the East German State deepens our understanding of the popular forces that swept the Honecker regime from power in the fall of 1989.