ABSTRACT
The churches themselves furthered the attitude during the nineteenth century because they were equally ossified, saturated and indifferent, as for example in the face of social wants. The newly forming forces, however, which developed due to the appeal of necessity, and which affected the later existential regeneration of the churches, proved for the time being to be still too weak. The faith in the national mission could gain the enormous influence only because it had been earlier laced with religious association or boosted by the churches. The ossification of the churches during the nineteenth century, their failure in the face of the totalitarian powers during the twentieth century, was bitterly avenged on the churches themselves. It took most severe convulsions and bitterest pain before the forces of regeneration could again break through to the primary virtues of Christianity.
