„Disrupted ecclesial internationality“: The Old Catholic „Internationale Kirchliche Zeitschrift“ during the First World War

Berlis, Angela (2018). „Disrupted ecclesial internationality“: The Old Catholic „Internationale Kirchliche Zeitschrift“ during the First World War. Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte / Contemporary church history, 31(1), pp. 146-168. Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht 10.13109/kize.2018.31.1.146

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The Internationale Kirchliche Zeitschrift (International Church Journal: IKZ) was founded in 1893 under the name Revue Internationale de Théologie as an academic Old Catholic journal with a focus on the “reunion of the churches” as proposed by Döllinger, drawing on Old Catholic, early church principles. With the outbreak of the First World War, the journal, which was active in both belligerent and neutral countries, came under pressure. The IKZ, which was published in Bern, in neutral Switzerland, committed itself to a position of strict neutrality; this policy, combined with the tireless striving of the editor-in-chief Adolf Küry to draw in theologians and potential subscribers in neutral countries, not only made possible the continued existence of the IKZ through the war, but led also to the deepening of the journal’s ecclesiastical ideal and the strengthening of its ecumenical profile, and allowed the IKZ to become integrated into the Faith and Order movement established in 1910. The IKZ became the most important European source of information about the Faith and Order movement; it also provided a link between the Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht at a time when other church fora and structures could no longer function. The bishops’ wartime pastoral letters played a similar linking role, and many of these were discussed in the IKZ in 1917. The German bishop Moog’s pastoral letters corresponded to some of the usual patterns of interpretation of the war, but they did not further the war; those of the Swiss bishop Herzog were were in a good sense exercises in apologetics for Christianity as a cultural power that could not be easily destroyed by the war. Both bishops sought to foster communion.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	01 Faculty of Theology > Institute of Old Catholic Theology 01 Faculty of Theology > Institute of Old Catholic Theology > Church History and Historical Theology, Liturgical Studies
UniBE Contributor:	Berlis, Angela
Subjects:	200 Religion > 270 History of Christianity
ISSN:	0932-9951
Publisher:	Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht
Language:	English
Submitter:	Angela Karoline Hermine Berlis
Date Deposited:	04 Jun 2019 08:51
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 15:28
Publisher DOI:	10.13109/kize.2018.31.1.146
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Faith and Order Movement - Old Catholic Churches - Episcopal Church United States - Journal - First World War - Ecumenical Relationship - Eduard Herzog - Adolf Küry - Robert Gardiner
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/130017