Jürgen Klute is an evangelical pastor and the head of the office of social ministry of the Lutheran diocese of Herne. Associated with the Christian Left, he was chosen as the main candidate of the new Labor and Social Justice Party for the 2005 state election of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state and a stronghold of the Social Democratic Party, from which the new party split. He has published several books on the relationship of religion to Social Democracy. Evangelical has several distinct meanings: In its original sense, it means belonging or related to the Gospel (Greek: euangelion - good news) of the New Testament. ... The Lutheran movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity by the original definition. ... Map of Germany showing Herne Herne is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... The Christian Left encompasses those who hold a strong Christian belief and share left-wing or socialist ideals. ... The Labor and Social Justice Party (German: Arbeit & soziale Gerechtigkeit – Die Wahlalternative or WASG) is a new German political party. ... The North Rhine-Westphalia state election, 2005, will be conducted on May 22, 2005, to elect members to the Landtag (state legislature) of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. ... With eighteen million inhabitants inhabiting 34,080 km² in western-northwestern Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia (German Nordrhein-Westfalen) is largest in population though only fourth in area among Germanys sixteen federal states, and contains about 22% of Germanys GDP. The capital is Düsseldorf. ... The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD – Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands) is the second oldest political party of Germany still in existence and also one of the oldest and largest in the world, celebrating its 140th anniversary in 2003. ... Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. ...