On the occasion of the upcoming 2017 quincentenary celebrations of the reformation, the Protestant Churches in Germany face the difficult task of avoiding the confessionalistic and nationalist mistakes of earlier centenaries. This essay argues for a celebration which does not fall behind the progress of historical research on the reformation of the past decades. This applies first to the postulate of confessional equity brought up by the paradigm of confessionalization and second to the revocation of an all-encompassing socio-political prerogative of interpretation, upheld by church and theology in the past, within the sociological model of secularization. This contribution considers the danger of a continued neglect of contemporary Catholicism, Judaism and secularism as regards the development of modern society, which would lead to Protestantism's aggrandized claim of modernity in the style of cultural Protestantism, and of a reduction of modern religious and church history to a mere Protestant culture of remembrance.

Enthalten in:
Evangelische Theologie; 2014/2 Zweimonatsschrift (2014)

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Serie / Reihe: Evangelische Theologie

Personen: Hölscher, Lucian

Schlagwörter: Kirchengeschichte Protestantismus Reformation Erinnerungskultur Konfession Lutherdekade Neuzeit