Sentences with phrase «lutheran tradition»

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So I encourage you, don't shy away from the Lutheran tradition.

In contrast, the confessional Lutheran tradition «emphasizes, not a momentary decision to convert, but instead the process of becoming a Christian and thus the ongoing life of faith.

He contrasts it with the «confessional» orientation embodied by the Lutheran tradition.

Philip Melanchthon, Luther's closest co-worker and author of the most authoritative Lutheran confession, «failed to grasp» Luther's insight and the «richness of Luther's sense of extrinsicity» was «quickly lost» in the Lutheran tradition.

More precisely, it begins from the theological core of justification by faith, according to the Pauline and Lutheran tradition.

Easter lasts for 50 days in my Lutheran tradition of celebration.

We plainly are in a different place in spite of the genuine catholicity both of our Lutheran tradition and of many faithful parishes.

My suspicion has to do with the sense that, in a period of anxiety about the inroads made by secularism and about the loss of, say, a distinctive Reformed or Lutheran tradition, some would embrace «tradition» in an uncritical way.

The theological and moral witness of a Dietrich Bonhoeffer stands as evidence that, for those ready to look for them, the Lutheran tradition provides resources enough for resistance to tyranny.

Strictly speaking, it is unreasonable for an evangelical catholic of the Lutheran tradition not to aspire to full communion with the Roman Catholic Church in some form, this side of heaven.

Second, if the church is attentive to the New Testament, Justin Martyr and Hippolytus, the Eastern church, the Western catholic tradition, the Anglican tradition, the Lutheran tradition, the Calvinist intent (and practice, if not in Geneva then in places like John Robinson's Leiden), the Wesleyan intent and that of the early Methodists, then its worship on every festival of the resurrection — that is, on every Sunday — will include both Word and Supper, not one or the other.

In my experience the reformed traditions (baptists, presbyterian, and many independent churches; the puritans and anabaptists also came from this branch) can tend toward legalism; the pentecostal traditions (Church of Christ, Assembly of God, vineyard, many independent churches etc.) can tend toward biblical literalism and a bit of a herd mentality; the lutheran tradition can tend toward antinomianism, while the anglican and wesleyan traditions do the best at shooting down the middle (though I am admittedly biased).

Carl Braaten is still a member of the ELCA, though he thinks it a church in which the actual Lutheran tradition «is now marginalized to the point of near extinction.»

But it is within the Lutheran tradition that the antinomies of the faith have been most vibrantly kept alive.

Missouri's long tradition of confessional orthodoxy resists such absorption, but styles of evangelical piety alien to the Lutheran tradition are now widespread in the Synod.

Following majority Lutheran tradition, individual congregations retain significant authority over the teaching and parish life in their context.

Observation and remembrance of Sabbath (Hebrew: שַׁבָּת šabbaṯ) is one of the Ten Commandments (the fourth in the original Jewish, the Eastern Orthodox, and most Protestant traditions, the third in Roman Catholic and Lutheran traditions).

Not exact matches

So whether you're Baptist, Lutheran, Presbyterian or Pentecostal, you can live the Anabaptist tradition.

Acting as it does as a summary and analysis of five decades of Lutheran - Catholic dialogue, 2015's Declaration on the Way: Church, Ministry, and Eucharist will undoubtedly be a helpful touchstone in future ecumenical discussions between the two traditions.

In my own tradition, which is Lutheran, we commonly understand ourselves as quite content to be Catholic except when, on certain questions, we are compelled to disagree.

Over the next fourteen years the Braatens and the Jensons (both men's wives participated actively in the center's work) collaborated in activities» conferences, seminars, and, most notably, production of the journal Pro Ecclesia» that expanded from a Lutheran core to give ecumenical witness to the great tradition of catholic theology.

Lutheran theology's antinomian tendency makes it perhaps more vulnerable than the other Reformation traditions in spite of the countervailing forces of its sociology and its doctrinal tradition, although here and there an older methodology, which understands that the Gospel does not negate the commandments, lives side by side with neo-Lutheranism and makes possible at least a tentative no to the likes of the task force.

Hudson for his sympathetic comments, and I pray that he finds a parish community that reflects the best of a great Lutheran Christian tradition.

But the riches of the catholic tradition already belong to Lutherans: we just need to wake up to that reality.

Having wallowed in this swamp long enough, it may be time to look back to the sturdier traditions of the Lutheran heritage and, rather than condemn or forget them, seek to recuperate and revise them.

Ultimately, it usually ends with even the most ardent sola scriptura Lutheran appealing to tradition, where I simply do not follow.

The bulk of this scholarly volume treats the distinctive and different ways that the Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican traditions adapted what the author identifies as the medieval model; the Catholic tradition, with its insistence that marriage constitutes a true sacrament of the new dispensation, thus serves as something of a foil for the book's extended argument.

No, they don't belong to a Lutheran or Calvinist tradition, but they adopted (coopted if you like) the term for any non-Papal Christian faith.

If you are a theologian of the Catholic, Lutheran, or Holiness tradition, you can wrap your head around the practicalities of the «Inner Light» by thinking of it as «prevenient grace».

How could American Lutherans make an idol of a nation whose philosophical assumptions (enlightenment liberalism) and dominant religious tradition (revivalist Calvinism) were so fundamentally at odds with their most basic understandings?

The author intends his work to be in the tradition of Louis Bouyer» a Lutheran turned Roman Catholic» and he has succeeded admirably.

First, Tietjen insists that at the heart of the debate was the question of what it means to be Lutheran, particularly within the Missouri Synod tradition.

Integral to it are both an emphasis on the real presence of the risen Lord, reflecting the concern of the Lutheran and Roman Catholic traditions, and on widening the rite beyond the elements themselves to encompass the entire celebration and the Spirit's crucial role in it, in keeping with the Orthodox and Reformed positions.

These actions produced a dissenting movement which ultimately became the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, formed in 1976 from five synods within the Missouri Synod tradition.

I was alerted to this situation when a Lutheran pastor told me: «Spirituality is what all my people are looking for today — and we don't even have the word in our tradition.»

Lutherans and others in this tradition are left with (admittedly fallible) reason, experience, and experiment — the sharpest tools of the modern academy work.

But such seems to be the case presently where those in the Reformed (Knight) and Lutheran (Reumann) traditions remain resistive to women being ordained, while those out of Holiness (Dayton) and Baptist (Lindsell) traditions do not.56 Has personal background influenced exegesis on this point?

His father was a German immigrant who served as pastor in a German - speaking Lutheran Church which mixed the Lutheran and Reformed traditions.

The Lutherans protested, arguing that there were insurmountable differences between the two traditions, especially on the question of what happens in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

I would also be inclined to give greater emphasis to the more «classical» roots of modern fundamentalism in the post-Reformation traditions of both Reformed and Lutheran scholasticism and perhaps be willing to suggest that the line is not so totally devoid of theological insight as Barr seems to indicate.

This has been more true of the Lutheran than of the Calvinist tradition.

Mr. Nuechterlein's pastor and I do draw on the riches of the Lutheran Confessional tradition as an expression of, and an entrée into, the great catholic tradition.

Lutherans have a truth, a heritage, a tradition.

By the following century Lutheran theology had returned to the medieval tradition in which it was thought that the souls of the departed already live in blessedness with Christ in a bodiless condition, and where, for this reason, the significance of the general resurrection was considerably lessened.56 It was left to extremist Christian groups, such as the Anabaptists, to affirm the doctrine of soul - sleep and to describe human destiny solely in terms of a fleshly resurrection at the end - time.

The «Reformation» tradition emphasizes the inherent evil of political systems; the Lutheran accent is here unmistakable.

Baum turns to examine three metaphysical theological claims that have dominated much of Germany's (and Protestantism's) larger tradition: Lutheran two kingdoms theory, Calvinist sovereignty - of - Christ theory, and modern ecumenical developments.

There are neo-Reformation proponents among Catholics and Episcopalians, as well as among Lutheran, Reformed and Wesleyan groups — each reflecting a different worship tradition but having common aims.

Evangelicals in the various Holiness, Wesleyan, and Arminian traditions are, one may suggest, much closer to the Catholic understanding of the relationship between justification and sanctification than they are to the more rigorous Lutheran and Calvinist champions of «justification by faith alone.»

Today, the new Lutheran church needs a different kind of «tradition.»