Der langsame Abschied vom landesherrlichen Kirchenregiment

The public debates in Protestant church magazines throughout the nineteenth century up to the adoption of the Weimar Constitution demonstrate that the relationship between church and state was widely discussed in its various forms and from multiple perspectives. Three strands were particularly significant: church-state relations in general from an external perspective, complementary to this the constitution of the church as an internal perspective, and the relationship between church and school. Overall, it is the debates which began after the Congress in Vienna in 1815 and its Final Act of 1820 which reflect a process that can be described as a gradual departure from church rule institutionalized by the Reformation which was accompanied by the formation of Protestant ecclesial identity.

1. Einleitung
1.1. Fragestellung
1.2. Quellenkorpus, Begrifflichkeiten und Methoden
1.3. Politische und kirchenhistorische Voraussetzungen
2. Die öffentlichen Debatten zur Aushandlung des Verhältnisses von Kirche und Staat aus der Perspektive protestantischer Kirchenzeitungen
2.1. Kirche und Staat
2.2. Die Verfassung der Kirche
2.3. Kirche und Schule
3. Der langsame Abschied vom landesherrlichen Kirchenregiment - das Verhältnis von Kirche und Staat im 19. Jahrhundert in den öffentlichen Debatten protestantischer Kirchenzeitungen