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

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We now come to phases of Protestantism which differed strikingly from the Lutheran and Reformed Churches.

Ideology grown in denominational hothouses is really unhelpful, both to Christians and American civic life, and especially» from a Lutheran view» to a theology of the priesthood of all believers, believers called to exercise part of their priesthood in the voting booth.

The justices accepted review Monday of an appeal from a Lutheran church in Michigan, and will hear oral arguments this fall.

In the letter, Francis goes on to borrow from Lutheran theologian Oscar Cullmann when he calls all Christians to a «unity in reconciled diversity,» and it is here where he offers a practical way toward unity: the way of charismatic renewal.

At his Institute for Successful Church Leadership we met Christians from a Lutheran church in a midwestern city, from a Four Square Gospel church in a mountain town of 12,000, from an Assembly of God church in a great Canadian city.

A provocative pamphlet from the Lutheran Church in America («Youth and Evangelical Outreach») shows an understanding of the current mentality among youth that bodes well for designing strategies for reaching them.

The path First Things founder Richard John Neuhaus followed from a Lutheran boyhood to the Catholic priesthood was a journey home.

He came from a Lutheran background, not the Puritan background we have in the U.S. and England.

The first were converts from the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 1940s.

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.

Thousands of congregations around the world — from Lutherans to Anglicans, to Presbyterians, to members of the United Church of Christ and other denominations — stick with this calendar as a way of pulling the days» focus around a common theme.

Its Christian Leadership Center, which I direct, is intended to foster relationships among a wide variety of Christians, from Catholics to Pentecostals, from Lutherans to Baptists.

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His sixth - floor corner office at Marriott's headquarters in Bethesda, Md., is decorated with spears and bows and arrows that his parents, Lutheran missionaries who raised him in Japan, brought back from New Guinea.

Adam earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Wisconsin Lutheran College and a master's degree in applied economics from Marquette University.

With the objective of learning from the rich experiences and lessons that other countries have gained from their own programs, teams of researchers at Ryerson University and California Lutheran University looked at a wide range of assistance programs targeting branding, financing, and management - associated challenges, among other issues.

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.

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.

And the LCMS held an «International Conference on Confessional Leadership» last year in Atlanta, Georgia, with more than 120 Lutheran church leaders from around the world attending.

He seems, however, to write from the point of view that looks first to government for the solution of the problems of life, and to imply that Lutherans are not doing their share for the common good because they are underrepresented in the upper echelons of politics.

The question of women's ordination is regarded as church - dividing, at least from the Orthodox angle... Consequently I think we on the Lutheran side have to think about whether progress in dialogue is to be expected at all.»

In the event, however, all it produced was permanent exile — with Seminex finally being absorbed into various seminaries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (formed in 1988 through merger of the other large Lutheran bodies in this country), from which the Missouri Synod is more and more estranged.

Given the difficulties of really working through such an issue within the synod, the seminary faculty took refuge in a second answer to the authority question: What was binding upon the synod's pastors and theological professors was the collection of Lutheran Confessional writings from the sixteenth century (gathered in the Book of Concord).

In 2010, for example, the election of a female bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland prompted statements of concern from the nation's Catholic and Orthodox leaders.

That Lutherans and Catholics have made progress in our mutual understanding of the faith is a gift from God, and we do well to thank him for it.

For three months during the early years of World War II, from November 1940 through February 1941, Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945) lived at Ettal, in a historic Benedictine monastery that is still a tourist attraction today.

A professor at a major Catholic institution where I used to speak from time to time when I was a Lutheran recently said that he had tried and failed to have me invited for a lectureship.

Christianity as a whole, is very confusing, because so many different churches claim to beleive in Jesus... we have the baptists differing with the catholics, and the catholics differing with the escopalitans, and then we have the lutherans differing from the methodists, and then we have the born - agains differing from everybody else on this earth.

The authors conducted extensive interviews with clergy who have left parish ministry, voluntarily or involuntarily, and with denominational leaders from five church bodies — the Assemblies of God, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the United Methodist Church.

Like their namesake, Lutherans have been eager to separate themselves from the errors both of the papists and of those whose opposition to popery was not, in their eyes, as astute, precise, and nuanced as their own.

But their chief wisdom about the family seems to lie in this simple statement from the former Lutheran Church in America: «The family appears in many forms in different times and places.»

American pastors Michael and Susan Thomas at the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in old - city Jerusalem wrote that their church bulletin board is covered with e-mail thoughts and prayers from all over the world sent in support of Jerusalem Christians.

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 peculiarFrom Austria to America, from aspiring Lutheran pastor to eminent sociologist, from liberal to neoconservative, Peter Berger has had a remarkable and peculiarfrom aspiring Lutheran pastor to eminent sociologist, from liberal to neoconservative, Peter Berger has had a remarkable and peculiarfrom liberal to neoconservative, Peter Berger has had a remarkable and peculiar....

Having emigrated from Vienna to New York just after World War II at age eighteen, and having completed college planning to become a Lutheran pastor, Berger decided to spend 1949 taking sociology courses at the New School for Social Research in New York City.

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

They are Lutherans, Catholics, Methodists, Mennonites, Presbyterians, Quakers, and Pentecostals, and I have benefitted from their insights and shepherding in ways too numerous to name.

In a classic case of too little, too late, a few Lutheran heroes, such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, could not make up for the wider Lutheran response to the threat of Nazism — which ranged from outright exuberance to strategic collaboration to vague neutrality.

And more recently, Catholic schools and Lutheran schools have demonstrated a staunch commitment to urban education — at a time when many wealthier families fled from our nation's cities.

The retired bishop of the Independent Lutheran Church in Germany is applying a German paraphrase of Psalm 2:4 to the baptism of seven former Muslims from Iran.

In closing, I would just also say that there is Lutheran blogger from Brazil on the internet, who is gay and very confessional.

Virtually all Lutheran piety and moral life flow from this model.

The Pietist movement affected both Lutheran and Calvinist churches, but those of us who are Methodists come more directly from it.

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).