Theology
Georg Hermann J. Kalinna
Die Entmythologisierung der Obrigkeit
Tendenzen der evangelischen Ethik des Politischen in der frühen Bundesrepublik der 1950er und 1960er Jahre
[Demythologizing Political Authority. Trends in Protestant Political Ethics in the Early Federal Republic of the 1950s and 60s.]
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Published in German.
After 1945 theological ethics needed to find a theological key to the political system of the German democracy in postwar Germany. This study deals with selected works of protestant theological ethics to show how protestant theology reacted to the challenge of the new political order. In doing so, it distinguishes different theological interpretations of politics. The book contributes to the research of mid-twentieth-century history as well as to systematic reflections on contemporary hermeneutics of politics. The political ethics of the early period of the Federal Republic are models of how to combine Christian tradition and social reality.