Wie die Volksmission als Rettung aus der Krise tausende Hoffnungen zerplatzen ließ

In launching the National Mission (Volksmission) over 100 years ago, the German Evangelical Churches hoped to spread the Gospel and stabilize a society ravaged by war and domestic instability. Henning Bühmann traces the development of Protestant missionary thinking in Germany between 1916 and 1934, concentrating on the activities of the Central Committee of the Home Mission (Central-Ausschusses der Inneren Mission). He traces the increasingly nationalist tone adopted by the missionaries and their failure to halt the tide of secularism. The author concludes that the eventual collapse of the missionary movement was due less to the new political atmosphere which followed the establishment of the Third Reich than the internal contradictions of the Volksmissionsbewegung itself.

Vorwort
Henning Bühmann setzt sich mit dem missionarischen, Hoffnung tragenden Aufbruch in den Jahren der Krise zwischen 1916 und 1934 auseinander, der aufgrund innerer Widersprüche zum Scheitern verurteilt war.

Autorentext
Dr. phil. Henning Bühmann ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im DFG-Projekt "Die frühen Wittenberger Thesen: Disputationen und Thesenreihen in Wittenberg in der frühen Reformationszeit" an der Theologischen Fakultät Göttingen.

Klappentext

In launching the National Mission (Volksmission) over 100 years ago, the German Evangelical Churches hoped to spread the Gospel and stabilize a society ravaged by war and domestic instability. Henning Bühmann traces the development of Protestant missionary thinking in Germany between 1916 and 1934, concentrating on the activities of the Central Committee of the Home Mission (Central-Ausschusses der Inneren Mission). He traces the increasingly nationalist tone adopted by the missionaries and their failure to halt the tide of secularism. The author concludes that the eventual collapse of the missionary movement was due less to the new political atmosphere which followed the establishment of the Third Reich than the internal contradictions of the Volksmissionsbewegung itself.