This study shows to which degree the reform processes within the United Methodist Church in Germany are determined by their ecclesiological and structural characteristics. The so-called process of regionalisation within the Southern German Annual Conference had been initiated by the church board to reduce the employment costs by forming regional alliances. It is taken as an example to illustrate the need of dovetailing this reform program with the pastoral work in the local parishes in a dialogical process in order to prevent the diverse reform measures from mutually blockading and neutralizing.antics of this reform discourse as part of the solution to the problem of indifference. Doing so, it also revises the mutual compatibility of reform efforts.ficacy of micro-economically informed thought and language and encourages a realistic self-perception of the church.engthening the congregation. deal with the relation of health and healing.mon to make this ambience of autobiographic accounting explicit and offer Christian interpretations pertaining to it.n John Williamson Nevin (1803-86) und Philip Schaff (1819-93) entfachte Debatte um das Selbstverständnis der deutsch-reformierten Kirche.
Personen: Eschmann, Holger
Eschmann, Holger:
Reformprozesse in der Evangelisch-methodistischen Kirche / Holger Eschmann, 2013. - S.116-124
Einheitssacht.: Kirchenreformen im Vergleich