ISBN10: 9525031179, ISBN13: 9789525031171, [publisher: Finnish Society of Church History] Softcover 361 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index.
[Oakland, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]
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ISBN10: 9525031179, ISBN13: 9789525031171, [publisher: Finnish Society of Church History, 78] Softcover Text in English. 361 pp. A clean ex-library book apart from library stamp on the title page. Light rubbing on covers. The Lutheran Church in Estonia was under Baltic German dominance until 1918, when Estonia became independent. After that, a purposeful Estonianisation of the Church started. This caused conflicts between the Baltic German parishes and clergy and the new Estonian Church leadership. Estonian-Baltic German relations within the Church came to a head in 1927. The expropriation of the Lutheran cathedral in Tallinn, which had housed a German parish for centuries, by the Estonian Ministry of the Interior was a scandal that received attention from all over the Protestant world. The private Baltic German Luther Academy in Tartu also strained ethnic relations at the beginning of the 1930s. The nationality question was resolved with the Baltic German mass resettlement in the Deutsches Reich in 1939. Mikko Ketola's study is on the one hand an account of the fate of the Baltic German parishes and clergy in the Estonian Lutheran Church, and on the other hand an analysis of the Estonianisation of the Church in the period between the two world wars. Publications of the Finnish Society of Church History, 183.
[Vantaa, Finland] [Publication Year: ...
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