Hochkirchliche Vereinigung Augsburgischen Bekenntnisses

The High Church of the Augsburg Confession Association is a nonprofit organization with the goal of promoting a sacramental and catholic understanding of the church within Protestant churches. Your self-image is reflected in the term of the Evangelical Catholicity.

It was founded on 9 October 1918 in Berlin and has members from many churches, especially from German speaking countries. Your spiritual core is since 1929 the High Church St. John's Brotherhood.

Formation

The Schleswig-Holstein Pastor Heinrich Hansen published in 1917, much like his compatriot Claus Harms in 1817, the centenary of the Reformation church 95 theses critical " stimuli et clavi ": the German Protestant churches should repent and return to The evangelical catholicity. The High Church Association (addition: Augsburg Confession, since 1938) was born on November 10, 1918 in Berlin. It was headed by H. Hansen from 1918 to 1919, from 1930 to 1962 the religious scholars and ecumenicist Prof. Dr. Friedrich Heiler, Marburg, which was proved in 1919 by Bishop Nathan Soderblom in the Reformation ecclesiasticism. The name portion of High Church testifies to the proximity to the English High Church and thus one on the future of the Church of the Nicene Creed, interdenominational Christian unity with Protestant, Roman Catholic and Orthodox trains.

Self-understanding

The High Church Association sees itself as a reform movement in the Protestant Church " in service to the One Holy Church of Jesus Christ. " This renewal takes place in the " mutual recognition of ministries " and the " responsibility to ecumenism, for the church of the future will be ecumenical or they will not be. "renewal happens also in personal life through confession ( individual confession ) and " fraternal dealing with guilt. "renewal happens through consolidation of the Community and by" sacrifice of time, money, and helping others. " Evangelical is the use of the freedom of the gospel and his prophetic traits, catholic on all-encompassing, on the connective among the individuals and churches.

Evangelical catholicity

The High Church Evangelical Association defined catholicity something like this: " Both of these aspects of Christian life belong together. No one is either, evangelical "or just Catholic '. " Counteract a falling apart of these two aspects, a willingness to listen to each other, talking to each other and think, this is the task that has asked the High Church Association. No and no, no church or community, is already perfect in itself. You have to listen, learn and change. Each wrote their church Evangelical Catholicity must be aware of or be. The aim is for the visible unity of the One Holy Church. In the office of bishop ( Petrine ministry ), the office of presbyter / priest ordination and apostolic succession, with its three elements: traditional - successio - communio she sees the sign and shape of the unit, located in the celebration of worship with Holy Communion ( Eucharist ) realized.

Activities

The High Church Association maintains a magazine and a publishing A Holy Church, Theology holds conferences on current issues from ecumenical and sees itself as the ecumenical exchange and learning from each platform.