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Category : Lutheran Church
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Wilhelm Loehe and His Legacy
Author: Wilhelm Loehe and North America
Author: Craig L. NessanPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532686560
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Wilhelm Loehe is one of the most significant nineteenth-century figures for North American church life and mission, whose influence continues into the present. Loehe is unique for joining together aspects of the Christian life often held to be antithetical: worship and mission, orthodoxy and pietism, evangelical proclamation and diakonia, and theological imagination and practical skill in administration. Already in the nineteenth century Loehe contributed a vital principle for advancing ecumenical understanding: the idea of “open questions.” When the church confesses core teachings as one, there does not need to be agreement on all secondary matters in order to live together in church fellowship. This book explores Loehe’s historical activity as a pastor, as a supporter of mission in North America, as an organizer (together with Friedrich Bauer) of theological education in North America, and as a founder of deaconess institutions in Neuendettelsau, Germany, that still exist today. The central themes represented by Loehe not only constitute a matrix that has significance for the church and its mission today but also constitute an agenda for the church of the future.
The Pastor
Author: Wilhelm LeohePublisher: Concordia Publishing House
ISBN: 9780758650276
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The first complete translation of one of Wilhelm Loehe's most important and influential books. Loehe explains the how and why of what a pastor does. The Pastor will help clarify the pastoral practice of the 19th century, but also what it means to apply the means of grace to God's people in the 21st century, in harmony with the church of all ages.
Liturgy for Christian Congregations of the Lutheran Faith
Author: Wilhelm LöhePublisher:
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Category : Lutheran Church
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Scandalous Witness
Author: Lee C. CampPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 1467458198
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Christian identity is in moral and political crisis, scandalized by the many ways in which it has been coopted and misrepresented. Addressing this painful reality, Lee Camp writes that Christianity in America has been made into a bad public joke because of “our failure to rightly understand what Christianity is.” From this provocative claim, Camp’s manifesto makes the convincing case that a renewed Christian politic is more essential than ever, one that is “neither left nor right nor religious,” but a prophetic way of life modeled after Jesus of Nazareth. Camp’s robust vision exposes modern parodies of faith—the American concept of “Christian values,” for one—and challenges Christians to rethink who they are and how they participate in the modern world. Authentic gospel truth is a scandal to the American myth, he argues, and we are called to be scandalous witnesses.
Three Books about the Church
Author: Wilhelm LöheReligion Index One
Author: "The Air I Breathe is Wartburg Air"
Author: Craig L. NessanPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1592442692
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
The ministry of William H. Weiblen at Wartburg Theological Seminary bridges the generations from the time of J. Michael Reu and the second generation of Fritschels to the present time of celebration at the seminary's sesquicentennial. This book captures the wisdom of Dr. Weiblen as he reflects on the missionary history of the seminary and the course of his own life. 'The Air I Breathe Is Wartburg Air' includes intimate conversations with Bill Weiblen and offers a substantial collection of his theological writings, addresses, and sermons.
When All Else Fails
Author: Wayne L. MenkingPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1620324997
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The condition of stuck is a condition well known by pastoral caregivers and leaders. In When All Else Fails, Wayne Menking argues that the way out of stuckness is not through the acquisition of faddish techniques, but through a deep rethinking of our pastoral vocation and what our pastoral work is to be about. Pastoral care and leadership are not indistinguishable, just as priestly work can never be separated from prophetic work. They are always one and the same. Pastoral care and leadership, then, are not about helping people relieve their anxiety through the offering of palliative comfort, but rather helping people to engage the powers that have hold of their life so as to leave what is old for what is new. In this engagement, the caregiver will always encounter powers against which niceness and unconditional love will not work. Using biblical images and narratives that depict God as a deeply empathic and compassionate God, yet one who is never adaptively sympathetic, Menking asserts that pastoral caregivers and leaders must shed their niceness and adaptivity so as to employ their God-given power if they are to help people effectively leave what is old for what is new.
The Unholy Trinity
Author: Michael A LockwoodPublisher:
ISBN: 9780758656971
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Its the same sinful, human pitfall throughout all of time: we look inward to worship the self instead of Jesus Christ. Anything we fear, love, or trust more than the true God is, after all, our god.