Die Protokolle des Rates der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland. Bd. 4: 1950 (Arbeiten zur Kirchlichen Zeitgeschichte. Reihe A: Quellen)

Illustrates the EKD's (Rat der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland) struggle for an understanding of itself as a church or an association (of churches) and the EKD's reaction to the political and social developments in both German states in 1949. Records how the EKD tried to lay down the relationship between state and church in the Federal Republic of Germany and also to position the Protestant Church within Germany society.