125 years of IKZ (1893-2018)

Titles, Theses, Theology – On the Significance of Church Media in History and the Present. International conference on the 125th anniversary of the IKZ.

This conference took the 125th anniversary of the Internationale Kirchliche Zeitschrift (IKZ), published in Bern, and its predecessor, Revue Internationale de Théologie (RITh), as an occasion to examine various press materials since the 18th century. The focus was on press outlets from the 18th century onwards that were dedicated to internal Catholic reform in the broadest sense: from the Nouvelles Ecclesiastiques (1728-1803), which was distributed throughout Europe, to the Theologische Literaturblatt, which was founded in 1864 after the restriction of Catholic scholars’ assemblies, to serial printed products from the second half of the 19th century onwards that were Old Catholic in the true sense. The focus was expanded to include Protestant and Roman Catholic print materials, which positioned themselves editorially either in sympathetic support or as statements of polemical demarcation. Individual topics in the Old Catholic press, as well as the relationships between publisher and author, have also been addressed, as has today’s evolving media and its consequences for the contemporary media landscape.