Sentences with phrase «by lutheran»

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I just heard a rumor that the minister who married Barth and his wife this summer was not properly licensed by the State of New York nor by the Lutheran church.

The role played by the Lutheran Church in Chirala is commendable.

There was a time not so long ago when 75 % of all the nursing homes in America were founded and operated by the Lutheran Church.

Guided by a Lutheran chaplain who is bold in his proclamation of the Word, religious life on campus has grown.

Protestant, liberal, and Anglo - American historians repeated without challenge the heroic defense of freedom by Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican reformers, by Dutch freedom fighters against Spanish cruelty and tyranny, and by intellectual opponents of religious obscurantism in the eighteenth century.

Updike's dialectical vision seems to have been shaped decisively by his Lutheran upbringing, and especially by his reading of those two latter - day Lutherans Søren Kierkegaard and Paul Tillich.

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

Three are by Father Neuhaus, the fourth by a Lutheran pastor, Paul Gregory Alms.

Siemon - Netto argues that the agitation for nonviolent change that finally brought the Communists down was led by Lutheran clergy and laity.

Some churches, such as the Church of England, retained the traditional three-fold pattern of ministry, but this was abandoned by the Lutheran church in Germany and by Calvinists.

A friend recently called to my attention a short piece by a Lutheran theologian who wanted to argue that marriage does not belong in church.

The following statement was issued early this year by the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, office of the President's Commission on the Sanctity of Life.

After ten years of teaching medieval thought at Yale (mostly in the philosophy department), I was selected by the Lutheran World Federation to be a delegated observer to the Second Vatican Council (1962 - 65), and since then have done most of my research and writing in the context of participation in national and international ecumenical dialogue, mostly with Roman Catholics.

The declaration summarizes, therefore, a common understanding by Lutheran churches and the Roman Catholic Church.

As Green observes, «The book is unique in being the only ethic written by a Lutheran theologian while engaged in a conspiracy to topple a tyrant.»

The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification by the Lutheran World Federation and the Roman Catholic Church is available as part of Ecumenical Proposals: Lutheran - Episcopal, Lutheran - Reformed, and Lutheran - Roman Catholic, from Augsburg Fortress (tel. [phone], order code # 69 - 3092; $ 1 plus postage and handling.)

Harrison, by a Lutheran reckoning, the command to «repent and believe the gospel» is not itself a saving word — precisely because it is a command, which means it is law, not gospel.

The Oxford Group Movement, or Buchmanism, was a movement inspired by a Lutheran minister, Frank Buchman.

Wesley was inclined to the text that the «law is established by faith» and was offended by the Lutheran denigration of the law and works.

The rot found its way into Braaten's own church and seminary» a process hastened, in Braaten's telling, by the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago's acceptance, in 1983, of ten faculty members who had lost their positions at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis in the 1970s civil war between moderates and conservatives in the Missouri Synod.

Were there many, many good Christians who tried to save Jews and others who were being persecuted by the Lutheran Nazis?

He received his degree in Industrial Engineering in Munich, Germany, is an Honorary Senator of the University of Innsbruck, received the Medal of «Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres» from the French Republic in 2001; the «Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold» for Services to the Republic of Austria in 2006; and the «Order of Merit» in Gold given by the Lutheran Church of Austria, 2007.

The election of female bishops by some Lutherans has only exacerbated tensions.

It is the great festival of victory and exultation, though Lent has always been kept rigorously by Lutherans, and St. John's is no exception.

The Methodists set up shop in 1858, followed by the Lutherans in 1860, but there wasn't a Catholic parish in Dunton until 1902 when St. James Catholic Church was founded — although there was a Catholic mission in the area for a short time in the 1840s.

Their German ethnic heritage and the struggle over the definition of Lutheranism have led to LCMS schools that are tightly integrated with their local churches, permeated with traditional Lutheran doctrine, and staffed by Lutherans trained in LCMS colleges.

Not exact matches

Martin Luther, founder of the Lutheran branch of Christianity, is fabled to have set up the first Christmas tree lit by candles.

The US is stepping back from the Middle East, leaving the region to be engulfed by a Sunni - Shia conflict that resembles Europe's Thirty Years War, when Lutherans and Catholics battled for supremacy.

Having lived with a servant of the Word for more than fifty years in three Lutheran churches, I have this question: Why is it that the «white, middle - class, traditional, orthodox theologians» being told that their understanding of the church is no longer relevant, are told this by «white, middle - class theologians?»

After all, nineteenth - century Lutheran theologians like Ritschl and Harnack were leading lights of what Troeltsch later called «Neo-Protestantism»; they were followed in the twentieth century by the likes of Bultmann, Ebeling, and lesser imitators fighting at all costs to save Lutheranism against Karl Barth's new orthodoxy or Dietrich Bonhoeffer's call to discipleship.

In particular, the LCMS, along with its sister church, Lutheran Church — Canada (LCC), has developed good relations with the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), publishing last year a joint statement rejoicing that they can «jointly affirm core teachings (articles) of the Christian faith shared by our church bodies.»

In particular, the movement of some LWF churches to break with the Church's historic understanding of Scripture and natural law by blessing same - sex marriages and ordaining homosexual ministers has led to division within the Lutheran World Federation and strained relations with ecumenical partners.

The nature of that life, says the Lutheran theologian Daniel M. Bell Jr., may be disguised by its remaining biblical residue.

The seriousness of the problem is revealed by the fact that, although Trinity Lutheran has come before the Supreme Court as a free exercise and equal protection case, the Blaine Amendments most centrally collide with the Establishment Clause.

The Lutheran side of these dialogues has been primarily represented by churches of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF).

It is offered by Martin Chemnitz, an extremely important second - generation Lutheran theologian, whose definitive analysis of, and response to, the theology of the Council of Trent remains....

(I'm Lutheran by the way if that matters to you bigots).

For some years now, a raft of distinguished scholars (Heiko Oberman, David Yeago in this journal, Bruce Marshall, Christine Helmer, and Paul Hinlicky) have been showing how Catholic the real Luther was» contrary to the portrait of Luther used for polemical purposes by too many evangelicals and even Lutherans.

Many of the early stories about the Al - Aqsa intifada centered on events at the Lutheran - sponsored Augusta Victoria Hospital in Jerusalem, which was occupied by Israeli military forces.

Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore by Peter L. Berger Prometheus, 264 pages, $ 26 From Austria to America, from aspiring Lutheran pastor to eminent sociologist, from liberal to neoconservative, Peter Berger has had a remarkable and peculiar....

This observation is occasioned by a press release from the government office of the ELCA Lutherans.

Formed by those who'd left the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, a mainline body, and who weren't quite so conservative as to join the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, the NALC recently held its third annual convention, and a good time was had by all.

By the twentieth century, nothing remained in the European Lutheran churches of the ancient prophetic voice preaching repentance to rulers.

My research on the 2016 election shows that Trump's victory was probably obtained by capturing a big swing among American Lutherans.

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.

By almost every standard for measuring such things the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America stands on the conservative side of mainline Protestantism.

The February decision by the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Makane Yesus (EECMY) to terminate its 150 - year partnership with the Church of Sweden (CoS) and its 50 - year partnership with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) comes after the EECMY tried — and failed — to persuade the other two bodies to reverse recent decisions to ordain gay clergy and bless same - sex unions.

«A Handbook for the Discipline of Lent» by Rev. Thomas L. Weitzel, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 5.

Indeed, most of these neo-Lutheran negations (save the first one, that we are not saved by our works) negate Luther and other early orthodox Lutherans.