The Lutheran Confessions

The Lutheran Confessions

Author: Charles P. Arand

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2012-04

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 145141059X

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In this important new volume, Arand, Kolb, and Nestingen bring the fruit of an entire generation of scholarship to bear on these documents, making it an essential and up-to-date class text. The Lutheran Confessions places the documents solidly within their political, social, ecclesiastical and theological contexts, relating them to the world in which they took place. Though the book is not a theology of the Confessions, readers will clearly understand the issues at stake in the narratives, both in their own time, and in ours.


Lutherans in North America

Lutherans in North America

Author: Clifford E. Nelson

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 9781451407389

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This book gives today's Lutherans a sense of heritage, identity and continuity, a sense of self-understanding. Readers will see themselves as part of a family. They can identify with the struggles, hopes, and frustrations of wave after wave of immigrants adapting to the strange new world of America and at the same time trying to preserve all they had known and loved and brought with them from the homeland. The genius of the entire volume is that it points beyond family memories to an ongoing and continuing life of which we and our children are a living part. Contributors: Theodore G. Tappert, Eugene Fevold, Fred W. Meuser, H. George Anderson, August R. Suelflow, and E. Clifford Nelson.


Lutheranism

Lutheranism

Author: Eric W. Gritsch

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published:

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781451417470

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This useful guide offers a critical appraisal of a theological movement within the church catholic. The authors, a church historian and a systematic theologian, describe Lutheranism as centered in the fundamental principle of the Reformation, "justification by faith apart from works of law."The book focuses on the emergence of this chief article of faith as a proposal of dogma to the church ecumenical, its theological formulation, and its significance for the shaping of piety and doctrine. Each issue is treated in terms of both confessional history and systematic theology. Seminarians, pastors, teachers, and interested laypersons of all traditions will gain ecumenical insights as well as pertinent information from this work.


The Book of Concord

The Book of Concord

Author: Theodore Gerhardt Tappert

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 1959-01-01

Total Pages: 742

ISBN-13: 9781451418941

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Confessional writings of the Lutheran Church and other information essential to understanding the confessions.


Confessional Lutheranism and German Theological Wissenschaft

Confessional Lutheranism and German Theological Wissenschaft

Author: James Ambrose Lee II

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2022-01-19

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 3110761246

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This book investigates the relationship between nineteenth-century German theological Wissenschaft and the emergence of confessional Lutheranism. It argues that the first generation of confessional Lutherans contributed to the discourse over the nature of theological Wissenschaft. Part I examines the intellectual context of nineteenth-century theological Wissenschaft. Chapter 2 presents Kant’s and Schelling’s conceptions of Wissenschaft in relationship to theology. Chapter 3 analyzes Schleiermacher’s contribution to the debate about the integrity of theology as a Wissenschaft, and concludes by considering the developments represented by F.C. Baur and Albrecht Ritschl. Part II investigates the different Lutheran approaches to theological Wissenschaft represented by Adolf Harleß, August Vilmar, and Johannes von Hofmann. Chapter 4 examines Harleߒs Theologische Encyklopädie as the first expression towards a confessional Lutheran Wissenschaft. Chapter 5 highlights Vilmar’s antagonistic posture towards modern German theology, while attending to his construction of an alternative approach to modern theology. Chapters 6 and 7 contextualize Hofmann against the landscape of German theology, while situating his theological Wissenschaft within his contentious work Der Schriftbeweis. Chapter 8 reflects upon these efforts at establishing a theological Wissenschaft in service to the church and the university.


Theology of the Lutheran Confessions

Theology of the Lutheran Confessions

Author: Edmund Schlink

Publisher: Concordia Publishing House

Published: 1961

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 9780758603616

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In this classic new edition, a translation of "Theologie Der Lutherischen Bekennt-nisschriften, Edmund Schlink points the reader to Scripture as the basis of the Lutheran Confessions. They are neither "just" historical documents nor merely expressions of a philosophy. They remain the church's summary exposition of Scripture, upon which members must take a stand. This volume helps the informed reader of Scripture and the Confessions take that stand.


Kleiner Katechismus

Kleiner Katechismus

Author: Martin Luther

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781021295521

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Johann Friedrich Adolf Krug's edition of Martin Luther's Small Catechism offers a concise and accessible guide to the basics of Christian theology and practice. An essential resource for students of religion and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of Christianity. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.