Implementing a select set of criteria, this article compares the reform efforts within the regional member churches of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), the German Catholic Church and the Federation of Free Evangelical Churches in Germany. It includes the interpretation of the ecclesiastical situation, which is in all cases considered in need of reform, as well as the reform targets, the instruments employed, the agents of the reform processes and the assessment of their possible success. Financial shortages constitute the starting point of all reform efforts found in the communities and churches under examination.it obviously does not come to bear at the moment.the federal level without affecting the autonomy of local parishes. In order to illustrate this observation, the article features some objectives and present reform measures of the Federation of Free Evangelical Churches.ion. 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: Kaufmann, Franz-Xaver
Kaufmann, Franz-Xaver:
Kirchliche Reformbemühungen in soziologischer Perspektive : die evangelischen Kirchen, die katholische Kirche und evangelische freie Gemeindebünde in Deutschland im Vergleich / Franz-Xaver Kaufmann und Detlef Pollack, 2013. - S.152-159
Einheitssacht.: Kirchenreformen im Vergleich