tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post2733536626081941985..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: "Hail to Thee in the Wreath of Victory"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-51233832073151355322008-09-22T08:02:00.000-04:002008-09-22T08:02:00.000-04:00I've amended the label for the Dom to "Protestant....I've amended the label for the Dom to "Protestant." I had no idea that the loyalties of the Hohenzollerns were Calvinist.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-3052575368430376232008-09-22T07:52:00.000-04:002008-09-22T07:52:00.000-04:00Goran, you may be right, but the Berliner Dom does...Goran, you may be right, but the Berliner Dom doesn't look very Calvinist to my eye.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-9911637937516549722008-09-22T04:45:00.000-04:002008-09-22T04:45:00.000-04:00Lutheran? But the Brandenburg Hohenzollerns were C...Lutheran? <BR/><BR/>But the Brandenburg Hohenzollerns were Calvinist from at least 1608... <BR/><BR/>The same goes for Sweden, which is why Brandenburg and Sweden are the only 2 countries where there was a separate Calvínist Court Parish, whereas in France royal children were baptised in the local parish.<BR/><BR/>Brandenburg, Preussia, Eastern Pomerania were Lutheran, however, but Berlin tried to change that from the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia onwards, claiming (misrepresenting) that under the Treaty the Prince had the Right to decide the Faith of his subjects, whereas the Treaty expressedly said they hadn't. <BR/><BR/>In the aftermath of the Reformation Jubilee in 1817 Berlin finally introduced the co called "Agenda": Calvinist Supper for their Unionist Landeskirchen. <BR/><BR/>This original "Agenda" gave rise (in Schlesien) to 19th century Pietism - an opposition claiming (also wrong) to be "Lutheran", mis-reading the 1580 Books of Concord, a shelf warmer up to then... <BR/><BR/>This spilled over to the US, the Missoury Synod being part of this inner-Calvinist opposition to Berlin's church policies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-20699730636616123782008-09-22T00:01:00.000-04:002008-09-22T00:01:00.000-04:00I can only imagine what Bonhoeffer would have said...I can only imagine what Bonhoeffer would have said about this. Scary stuff. I'm thinking "Palin".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com