{"id":68521,"date":"2025-10-29T22:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T21:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=68521"},"modified":"2025-10-29T22:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T21:02:10","slug":"between-anthroposophy-and-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/between-anthroposophy-and-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Between Anthroposophy and Church"},"content":{"rendered":"In his new book, Wolfgang G\u00e4deke shines a light on the origins of the Christian Community. He deconstructs myths, organizes sources, and shows Rudolf Steiner\u2019s formative role beyond mere consultation. At the same time, he traces Steiner\u2019s path from free thinker to religious thinker.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn September 1922, the Christian Community was founded by 45 theologians, pastors, and students. Rudolf Steiner provided advice and support without being a co-founder himself. Still, his involvement was especially meaningful for him, as he later publicly acknowledged: \u201cI myself must count among the highlights of my life what I experienced with these theologians in September 1922 in the small hall of the south wing [of the Goetheanum] (where the fire was later first discovered).\u201dRudolf Stei<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his new book, Wolfgang G\u00e4deke shines a light on the origins of the Christian Community. He deconstructs myths, organizes sources, and shows Rudolf Steiner\u2019s formative role beyond mere consultation. At the same time, he traces Steiner\u2019s path from free thinker to religious thinker. In September 1922, the Christian Community was founded by 45 theologians, pastors, and students. Rudolf Steiner provided advice and support without being a co-founder himself. Still, his involvement was especially meaningful for him, as he later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12356,"featured_media":68129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8846,9201,10376],"tags":[11714,11715,8814],"class_list":["post-68521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-religion-en","category-review-en-2","tag-ausgabe-41-2025-en","tag-english-issue-44-2025","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}