{"id":20458,"date":"2014-12-24T01:02:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T06:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/union_of_evangelical_churches\/"},"modified":"2021-03-03T19:40:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T00:40:40","slug":"union_of_evangelical_churches","status":"publish","type":"partner","link":"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/union_of_evangelical_churches\/","title":{"rendered":"Union of Evangelical Churches (Germany)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Evangelical Church of the Union traces its origin to 1817 when, to celebrate the 300th&nbsp;anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III decreed that the Reformed and Lutheran parishes in his domain should be united in a single church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>German church life experienced a severe crisis under the Nazi government, beginning in 1933 and extending through World War II.&nbsp; Official church leadership was in the hands of the \u201cGerman Christians.\u201d&nbsp; Those who rejected government control established a separate emergency church structure, the \u201cConfessing Church,\u201d based on the Theological Declaration of Barmen (1934)\u2013action declared illegal by the Nazi authorities.&nbsp; The EKU looked to Barmen and the Confessing Church as the foundation for its development in the pist Waorld War II years.&nbsp; This more recent history also includes the political division of Germany from 1948 until 1990, producing further challenges to the life of the churches.&nbsp; In 1969, political pressures forced church structures to be organizationally divided.&nbsp; As a result, EKU-West and EKU-East functioned as separate churches in the two countries, nevertheless maintaining a high level of consultation and coordination across the political barrier and Berlin Wall.&nbsp; In 1992, the offical reunification of the church was completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1981, the United Church of Christ\u2019s General Synod declared a relationship of &#8220;church communion&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/kirchengemeinschaft_germany\"><em>Kirchengemeinschaft<\/em><\/a>) with the Evangelical Church of the Union (EKU). The EKU was an historic union of the Lutheran and Reformed traditions in Germany and the ancestral church of many German-American pioneers who founded the \u201cEvangelical Synod in the United States\u201d\u2014one of the UCC&#8217;s antecedent traditions. In 2003 the member churches of the EKU voted to disband the EKU and join with other United and Reformed churches in Germany to create a larger body: the Union of Evangelical Churches (UEK). The commitments of the 1981 declaration of <em>Kirchengemeinschaft<\/em> were transferred by the action of both churches to the new UEK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/kirchengemeinschaft_germany\">Click here to read more about <em>Kirchengemeinschaft<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.georgefox.edu\/ree\/vol32\/iss3\/5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Evangelical Churches in the GDR and their Participation in East-West Cooperation<\/a>,&#8221; by Christa Grengel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":38824,"template":"","region":[20070,20022],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Union of Evangelical Churches (Germany) - Global Ministries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/union_of_evangelical_churches\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Union of Evangelical Churches (Germany) - Global Ministries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Evangelical Church of the Union traces its origin to 1817 when, to celebrate the 300th&nbsp;anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III decreed that the Reformed and Lutheran parishes in his domain should be united in &hellip; Read more\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/union_of_evangelical_churches\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Global Ministries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-03-04T00:40:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/uek-logo-web.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"628\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/union_of_evangelical_churches\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/union_of_evangelical_churches\/\",\"name\":\"Union of Evangelical Churches (Germany) - Global Ministries\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-12-24T06:02:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-03-04T00:40:40+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/union_of_evangelical_churches\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/union_of_evangelical_churches\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/union_of_evangelical_churches\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Partners\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partners\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Union of Evangelical Churches (Germany)\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/\",\"name\":\"Global Ministries\",\"description\":\"Global Ministries is a common missional witness of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ. 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