Sign-In
Cart
Prayers for Peace and a German Revolution
Paperback
General ChristianityGerman HistorySocial Movements
Please select the version of book you would like to purchase.
ISBN13: 9798895321195
Publisher: Parson's Porch
Published: Jun 1 2026
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Parson's Porch
Published: Jun 1 2026
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
There are some years in the western world that are memorable for a particular event. In 1054 there was the ecclesiastical schism between east and west, dividing the Roman Church from the Greek Orthodox Church. In 1066 was the Norman invasion of England. In 1215 King John of England signed the Magna Carta. In 1517 Martin Luther posted his 95 theses to the Castle Church door in Wittenberg, Germany. In 1917 was the Russian revolution. And in 1989 there was the remarkable peaceful revolution in East Germany that led to the overthrow of a communist dictatorship and a reunited Germany.
While one recent history of the German Democratic Republic (Katie Hoyer's Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany) makes no mention of the role churches, ministers, and theologians played in the non-violent aspect of this major development, other sources suggest otherwise. Often at great risk to themselves, church leaders, especially Protestant ones, were instrumental in providing the space and creating the atmospherethat insisted on non-violent demonstrations, even when confronted with harassment and violence from police and security forces. From 1974 till 2005 Hans-Jürgen Sievers was pastor of the Evangelical-Reformed Church in Leipzig. He along with the pastors of St. Nicholas Lutheran Church provided the main pastoral leadership for those hundreds and thousands of East German citizens in Leipzig who demanded change in the country's political system. To be sure, there were similar calls in other cities, but they seemed to take their cue from what was going on in Leipzig. As this volume attests, much of the basis of the theological and pastoral leadership involved prayers, prayers for peace that began on Monday evenings in 1982. Most of the demonstrations that took place did so immediately after prayer services in several Leipzig churches where sermons were preached, songs were sung, and prayers were offered. This prayerbook provides a detailed view of the events that led, eventually, to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the fall of the communist government, and, eventually, the reunification of Germany. It happened in a year that will certainly be noted, if not remembered by many.
Also from
Currie, James
Life and Works. As Originally Edited by James Currie, to Which is Prefixed, a Review of the Life of Burns, and of Various Criticism on his Character a
Peterkin, Alexander
Currie, James
Paperback
$33.69
The American New Dispensatory: Containing General Principles Of Pharmaceutic Chemistry, Pharmaceutic Operations, Chemical Analysis Of The Articles Of
Thacher, James
Currie, James
Hardcover
$49.94
The American New Dispensatory: Containing General Principles Of Pharmaceutic Chemistry, Pharmaceutic Operations, Chemical Analysis Of The Articles Of
Thacher, James
Currie, James
Paperback
$34.94
A Letter, Commercial and Political, Addressed to the Rt. Honble. William Pitt: in which the real interests of Britain, in the present crisis, are cons
Currie, James
Pitt, William
Paperback
$23.88
A Letter, Commercial and Political, Addressed to the Rt. Honble. William Pitt
Currie, James
Hardcover
$37.44
Also in
German History
The Occult in National Socialism: The Symbolic, Scientific, and Magical Influences on the Third Reich
Flowers, Stephen E.
Paperback
$38.00
The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich
Wittman, Robert K.
Kinney, David
Paperback
From $10.99
Germany from Partition to Reunification: A Revised Edition of the Two Germanies Since 1945
Turner, Henry Ashby, Jr.
Paperback
$44.93
The Origins of Totalitarianism: With a New Introduction by Anne Applebaum
Applebaum, Anne
Arendt, Hannah
Paperback
$19.79
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Larson, Erik
Paperback
From $11.99
They Shall Not See the Dawn: The Manhunt for the Third Reich's Most Wanted
Lachman, Charles
Hardcover
$31.34
Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
Merriman, Helena
Paperback
$18.99
Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment
Gaines, James R.
Paperback
$17.09
A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
Makos, Adam
Alexander, Larry
Paperback
From $10.99
Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
Buchanan, Patrick J.
Paperback
$20.90
The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922-1945, Revised Edition
Allen, William Sheridan
Paperback
$37.44
Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
Whitman, James Q.
Paperback
$14.20
The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
Harrington, Joel F.
Paperback
$19.95
Defeat at the Dnepr: The XLVIII. Panzerkorps' Counterattack at Kiev, November 1943
Waring, Simon
Hardcover
$37.95
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Larson, Erik
Hardcover
From $11.99
The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler's All-Female Concentration Camp
Olson, Lynne
Hardcover
From $11.99
Моя Борьба - Майн Кампф: Mein Kampf
Гитлер, Ад&#
Hitler, Adolf
Paperback
$41.25
Reich of the Black Sun: Nazi Secret Weapons & the Cold War Allied Legend
Farrell, Joseph P.
Paperback
$16.10
Inside the 22 Cells in Nuremberg: Power, Obedience, and the Psychology Behind History's Darkest Decisions
Adams, Taylor
Paperback
$17.99
The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century
Watson, Peter
Paperback
From $12.99
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
Donner, Rebecca
Paperback
From $11.99
Germany in Stalin's Crosshairs: The Red Army's Entry into the Second World War, and the Wehrmacht's Actions in 1941
Schwipper, Bernd
Paperback
$49.86
Nazi International: The Nazis' Postwar Plan to Control the Worlds of Science, Finance, Space, and Conflict
Farrell, Joseph P.
Paperback
$18.95
The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
Hett, Benjamin Carter
Paperback
$18.99
Douglas Kelly and the 22 Cells in Nuremberg: What Happens When Power, Loyalty, and Silence Go Unquestioned
Meier, Torsten
Paperback
$17.99
When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany
Fergusson, Adam
Paperback
$18.99
The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas: Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil
Ridenour, Al
Paperback
$23.75
The Shortest History of Germany: From Roman Frontier to the Heart of Europe - A Retelling for Our Times
Hawes, James
Paperback
$16.10
A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism
Patel, Angelika
Boyd, Julia
Paperback
$20.85
The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War
Bascomb, Neal
Paperback
$18.04
The Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War I
Mosier, John
Literary Group International
Paperback
$15.19
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague
Ash, Timothy Garton
Paperback
From $8.99
Insignia of the Waffen-SS: Cuff Titles, Collar Tabs, Shoulder Boards & Badges
Michaelis, Rolf
Hardcover
$18.99
A Hangman's Diary: The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617
Schmidt, Franz
Paperback
$16.14
Hitler's Table Talk: The Complete Edition 1941-1944
Bormann, Martin
Heim, Heinrich
Picker, Henry
Paperback
$44.94
Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500
Wilson, Peter H.
Paperback
$23.70
The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Hidden Truth at the Heart of the Greatest Battle of World War II
MacGregor, Iain
Paperback
$19.00
Patton at the Battle of the Bulge: How the General's Tanks Turned the Tide at Bastogne
Barron, Leo
Paperback
$27.00
The Third Way: The Nazi International, European Union, and Corporate Fascism
Farrell, Joseph P.
Paperback
$18.95
Foundational Description of the Art of Fencing: The 1570 Treatise of Joachim Meyer (Reading Edition)
Meyer, Joachim
Paperback
$37.49
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Large Print Edition)
Larson, Erik
Paperback
$32.00
From Occupation to Integration: Recivilizing the French Zone of Post-Nazi Germany, 1945-1955
Flanagan, Drew
Hardcover
$63.00
Stalin's Great Raid: The Plundering of Germany and the Rise of the Soviet Union to a Superpower
Musial, Bogdan
Paperback
$28.45
Night of the Long Knives: Forty-Eight Hours That Changed The History Of The World
Maracin, Paul
Paperback
$14.95
What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany
Reuband, Karl-Heinz
Johnson, Eric A.
Paperback
$33.34
Knowledge of the Stasi in the East German Literary Sphere: Surveillance, Secrecy, and Revelation
Windsor, Tara Talwar
Jones, Sara
Wasihun, Betiel
Paperback
$29.99
Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
Whitman, James Q.
Hardcover
$48.00
Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States
Hart, Bradley W.
Paperback
$19.94