Lutheran category: 218 books
The Pathfinders
A History of Australian Lutheran Schooling 1919-1999
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
There have been Lutheran schools in Australia for more than 170 years. This book examines the second 80 years of that history through a series of biographies of the pathfinders, those educational leaders who, on the basis of a rich tradition which had suffered some reversals, forged new directions...
Johann Arndt
A Prophet of Lutheran Pietism
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
This is the story of the most significant devotional author of the seventeenth century in his first full English language biography. Using previously unknown letters as a few of the resources, this story aims to recreate the theological, sometimes magical, and social worlds of Johann Arndt.
Arndt...
by Carl-Henric Grenholm, Göran Gunner
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Lutheran tradition has in various ways influenced attitudes to work, the economy, the state, education, and health care. One reason that Lutheran theology has been interpreted in various ways is that it is always influenced by surrounding social and cultural contexts.
In a society where the...
Foretastes of Heaven in Lutheran Church Music Tradition
Johann Mattheson and Christoph Raupach on Music in Time and Eternity
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
In the two centuries after Martin Luther’s affirmation that music stood second only to theology, Lutheran theologians and musicians formulated a theological defense of music that validated this exalted status. Against Calvinist rivals and Pietist critics, the orthodox Lutheran position further claimed...
by Philipp Melanchthon
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
The Augsburg Confession, also known as the "Augustana" from its Latin name, Confessio Augustana, is the primary confession of faith of the Lutheran Church and one of the most important documents of the Lutheran reformation. The Augsburg Confession was written in both German and Latin and was presented...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Missing Letters to Lutheran Pastors, Hermann Sasse letters and articles by Hermann Sasse, not included in the several volumes of Herman Sasse's Letters to Lutheran Pastors already published by the "official" church press. He is regarded by many as the greatest Lutheran theologian of the 20th Century. Missing Letters will show how he was a big supporter of Christian News.
by Carl-Henric Grenholm, Göran Gunner
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Since the Reformation in the sixteenth century, Lutheran traditions have impacted culture and politics in many societies. At the same time, Lutheran belief has had an effect on personal faith, morality, and ethics. Modern society, however, is quite different from that at the time of the Reformation.
How...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Can a Lutheran be sociopolitically radical? Can a radical be theologically and faithfully Lutheran? This book answers yes. Written by teacher-scholars from five ELCA colleges, Radical Lutherans/Lutheran Radicals follows Martin Luther, Soren Kierkegaard, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Dorothee Soelle, and others...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
The Lutheran Prayer Book is an invaluable collection of personal prayers for Lutherans facing anything life throws at them. With prayers for morning and evening, as well as seasonal prayers and those for the church, nation, and world, the Lutheran Prayer Book is resourceful for praying at any time, place,...
Lutheran Theology and Secular Law
The Work of the Modern State
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This collection brings together lawyers and theologians in the U.S. and Europe to reflect on Lutheran understandings of the political use of the law by secular governments. The book furthers the intellectual conversation about how Lutheran insights can be used to develop jurisprudence and specific...
by Jonathan Strom, Mark Granquist, Timothy J. Wengert
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
In the five hundred years since the publication of Martin Luther's Ninety-
Five Theses, a rich set of traditions have grown up around that action and the subsequent events of the Reformation. This up-to-date dictionary by leading theologians and church historians covers Luther's life and thought,...
Being Lutheran Today
A Layperson’S Guide to Our History, Belief and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Being Lutheran Today: A Laypersons Guide to Our History, Belief and Practice will help the reader understand what Lutherans believe about the basics of the Christian faith. In easy to read language, you are given a historical perspective of the core beliefs of those who count themselves as Lutherans....
Reforming Mary
Changing Images of the Virgin Mary in Lutheran Sermons of the Sixteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2004
Catholics and Protestants have, since the earliest days of the Reformation, held markedly different views about the Virgin Mary. In Reforming Mary Beth Kreitzer examines the development of Lutheran views on this subject as expressed in 16th-century Lutheran published sermons, starting with the earliest...
Uncovering Lives
Discovering One Immigrant Generation’s Secrets and Lives of Forgiveness, Grace, and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2014
An unidentified photograph, a stack of old letters, and a memory of a shipwreck seem to be promising starts for a new mother putting together a family tree for her young son. But the search quickly leads from nostalgic memories of immigrant parents and grandparents to long-buried secrets, like alcoholism,...