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This article publishes the minutes of a conference held on February 26th, 1934 by prominent members of the German Lutheran churches. August Marahrens, Ernst Sommerlath, Werner Elert, Paul Fleisch, and others are discussing how to maintain the Lutheran position on conditions of the Third Reich and the Reichskirche.
This essay deals with Friedrich Schleiermacher’s readings on ecclesiastical geography and statistics (which have been be published for the first time in 2005 as volume II/16 of the Kritische Gesamtausgabe). For Schleiermacher the ecclesiastical statistics were the last part of historical theology; he developped this subject to describe the present state of the churches in the whole world, especially their life and culture, their constitutions, and their relations with states and goverments. Though Schleiermacher’s statistics had some influence on comparative symbolics and the study of denominations as well as on Practical Theology, they could not be established as one discipline among the other theological disciplines.
Heinrich von Lettland, Pfarrer in Papendorf (lett. Rubene), Zeitzeuge und Chronist der Kreuzzüge ins Baltikum, war am Augustinerchorherrnstift in Segeberg ausgebildet worden. Auf der Grundlage eines typologisch-symbolistischen Bibelverständnisses, das Gemeinsamkeiten mit Otto von Freising und anderen hat, kommt Heinrich zu einer Geschichtstheologie, nach der Mission, Missionskrieg und überhaupt alles göttliche und menschliche Wirken auf die Ausbreitung des Friedens Christi, des „vere pacificus“, abzielt.