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Lutheran Identity and Political Theology
by Carl-Henric Grenholm Göran GunnerLutheran tradition has in various ways influenced attitudes to work, the economy, the state, education, and health care. One reason that Lutheran theology has been interpreted in various ways is that it is always influenced by surrounding social andcultural contexts. In a society where the church has lost a great deal of its cultural impact and authority, and where there is a plurality of religious convictions, the question of Lutheran identity has never been more urgent. However, this question is also raised in the Global South where Lutheran churches need to find their identity in a relationship with several other religions. Here this relationship is developed from a minority perspective. Is it possible to develop a Lutheran political theology that gives adequate contributions to issues concerning social and economic justice? What is the role of women in church and society around the world? Is it possible to interpret Lutheran theology in such a way that it includes liberating perspectives? These are some of the questions and issues discussed in this book.
Lutheran Service Book: Pastoral Care Companion
by The Commission on Worship of The Lutheran Church--Missouri SynodThe Pastoral Care Companion provides numerous practical resources like Services and Rites, Resources For Pastoral Care, and Other Resources for visitations and crisis intervention.
Lutheran Service Book: Psalms and Hymns
by The Commission on Worship of The Lutheran Church-Missouri SynodThis is the complete pocket edition of the hymnal of the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod as published in 2006. It contains the complete set of 150 Psalms in the English Standard Version, a selection of prayers, parts of Luther's Small Catechism and the Text of all the hymns. The pocket edition contains text only, no music notation and therefore was especially adaptable to a Bookshare file. In addition, it is fully marked up for DAISY navigation. At Level 1 you can quickly navigate to the Psalms, Prayers, Catechism, Hymns and Indexes. At Level 2 you can navigate from hymn to hymn. Note that the pocket edition does not contain the order of divine services. Each hymn stanza is a paragraph.
Lutheran Theology and Secular Law: The Work of the Modern State (ICLARS Series on Law and Religion)
by Ronald W. Duty Marie A. FailingerThis collection brings together lawyers and theologians in the U.S. and Europe to reflect on Lutheran understandings of the political use of the law by secular governments. The book furthers the intellectual conversation about how Lutheran insights can be used to develop jurisprudence and specific solutions to legal issues in which there is strong conflict. It presents the basic theological and interpretive assumptions of the Lutheran tradition as they may inform the creation of legislation and judicial interpretation at local, national and international levels. The authors explore Luther’s conception of the foundations of modern secular law and understanding of vocation. The work discusses the application of Lutheran theological principles to contemporary issues such as the war on terror, native land rights, property law, family law, church and state, medical experimentation, and the criminal law of rape, providing ethical insights for lawyers and lawmakers.
Lutheranism in North America, 1914-1970
by E. Clifford NelsonThis volume is the most comprehensive scholarly study of 20th century Lutheranism in North America. E. Clifford Nelson's personal experience and careful research describes decisions and events that brought Lutheran bodies in North America to their present theological and cultural positions. The book is an indispensable guide to understanding the ongoing question of fellowship and cooperation. Nelson not only provides the historical background but also spotlights some of the significant issues facing the church in the 70s. E. Clifford Nelson is professor of religion at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn. He has worked with the Lutheran Federation and other national and international bodies and taught for 14 years in Luther Seminary in St. Paul. Previous publications include a two volume study, The Lutheran Church Among Norwegian-Americans (E. L. Fevold, co-author of Vol I), and articles in church and professional journals as well as in encyclopedias, including in the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Lutherans in North America
by Theodore G. Tappert E. Clifford Nelson H. George Anderson August R. Suelflow Eugene L. Fevold Fred W. MeuserLutherans came to North America, starting in the 1600s, chiefly from Germany, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finlad and a few from Poland and Slovakia. This book, co-authored by six Lutheran scholars, recounts their journey to North America and describes their church life once they arrived. They grouped into synods, initially based on their countries of origin and later based on conservative or liberal thinking. Much of the book concerns itself with attempts to unify Lutherans into one church with a common hymnal and style of worship. As of 1979, when this book closes its history, cooperation has increased but full unity is not yet achieved.
Luthers Protest: From 95 Theses to Reformation
by John A BraunWhy did Martin Luther leave the Catholic Church?Martin Luther’s actions were certainly not as loud or brazen as the bullhorns and picket lines of present-day protesters. Yet what began with mere parchment and nails on a church door in Germany turned into one of the most important protests in world history.Luther’s Protest examines why Martin Luther left the Catholic Church, his role in sparking the Lutheran Reformation, his theological impact on the movement, and his continued efforts to return the church at large to the Word of God.In addition, this book will show you Martin Luther’s lasting influence on the Christian faith over the past 500+ years.
Luther’s Aesop (Early Modern Studies #8)
by Carl P. SpringerReformer of the church, biblical theologian, and German translator of the Bible Martin Luther had the highest respect for stories attributed to the ancient Greek author Aesop. He assigned them a status second only to the Bible and regarded them as wiser than "the harmful opinions of all the philosophers." Throughout his life, Luther told and retold Aesop’s fables and strongly supported their continued use in Lutheran schools. In this volume, Carl Springer builds on the textual foundation other scholars have laid and provides the first book in English to seriously consider Luther’s fascination with Aesop’s fables. He looks at which fables Luther knew, how he understood and used them, and why he valued them. Springer provides a variety of cultural contexts to help scholars and general readers gain a deeper understanding of Luther’s appreciation of Aesop.
Luther’s Aesop (Early Modern Studies)
by Carl P. SpringerReformer of the church, biblical theologian, and German translator of the Bible Martin Luther had the highest respect for stories attributed to the ancient Greek author Aesop. He assigned them a status second only to the Bible and regarded them as wiser than "the harmful opinions of all the philosophers." Throughout his life, Luther told and retold Aesop’s fables and strongly supported their continued use in Lutheran schools. In this volume, Carl Springer builds on the textual foundation other scholars have laid and provides the first book in English to seriously consider Luther’s fascination with Aesop’s fables. He looks at which fables Luther knew, how he understood and used them, and why he valued them. Springer provides a variety of cultural contexts to help scholars and general readers gain a deeper understanding of Luther’s appreciation of Aesop.
Luther’s Lectures on Genesis and the Formation of Evangelical Identity (Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies #80)
by John A. MaxfieldMartin Luther's lectures on Genesis, delivered at the University of Wittenberg during the last decade of his life and later published by his students, allow modern readers to view a sixteenth-century professor engaging his students with the text of scripture and using that text to form them spiritually. The lectures show how Luther attempted to form in his students a new identity, an Evangelical identity, enabling them to make sense of the rapidly changing society and church in which they were being prepared to serve, primarily as pastors in the developing territorial churches of the Reformation.This study uses the text of the lectures to outline the contours of the new identity that Luther laid out through his exposition of Genesis. They include how Luther approached and taught his students to perceive the text of holy scripture; how that text unveiled for Luther the nature of Christian life in the world; and how Luther taught his students to view the past, the present, and the future of the church and the world through the book of Genesis.Whether in the published editions of the lectures the historic Luther was actually misunderstood or was transformed in some way into the prophetic Luther of later memory, the text reveals the Luther that his students heard and subsequent generations read.
Luther’s Lectures on Genesis and the Formation of Evangelical Identity (Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies)
by John A. MaxfieldMartin Luther's lectures on Genesis, delivered at the University of Wittenberg during the last decade of his life and later published by his students, allow modern readers to view a sixteenth-century professor engaging his students with the text of scripture and using that text to form them spiritually. The lectures show how Luther attempted to form in his students a new identity, an Evangelical identity, enabling them to make sense of the rapidly changing society and church in which they were being prepared to serve, primarily as pastors in the developing territorial churches of the Reformation.This study uses the text of the lectures to outline the contours of the new identity that Luther laid out through his exposition of Genesis. They include how Luther approached and taught his students to perceive the text of holy scripture; how that text unveiled for Luther the nature of Christian life in the world; and how Luther taught his students to view the past, the present, and the future of the church and the world through the book of Genesis.Whether in the published editions of the lectures the historic Luther was actually misunderstood or was transformed in some way into the prophetic Luther of later memory, the text reveals the Luther that his students heard and subsequent generations read.
Luther’s Legacy: The Thirty Years War and the Modern Notion of ‘State’ in the Empire, 1530s to 1790s
by Robert Von FriedeburgIn this new account of the emergence of a distinctive territorial state in early modern Germany, Robert von Friedeburg examines how the modern notion of state does not rest on the experience of a bureaucratic state-apparatus. It emerged to stabilize monarchy from dynastic insecurity and constrain it to protect the rule of law, subjects, and their lives and property. Against this background, Lutheran and neo-Aristotelian notions on the spiritual and material welfare of subjects dominating German debate interacted with Western European arguments against 'despotism' to protect the lives and property of subjects. The combined result of this interaction under the impact of the Thirty Years War was Seckendorff's Der Deutsche Fürstenstaat (1656), constraining the evil machinations of princes and organizing the detailed administration of life in the tradition of German Policey, and which founded a specifically German notion of the modern state as comprehensive provision of services to its subjects.
Luv @ First Site (TodaysGirls.com #5)
by Terry Brown Tess KindigWhen Bren develops a crush on a new student, she lies to her friends and on a computer dating questionnaire in order to be matched with him.
Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn (Translations from the Asian Classics)
by Zhongshu DongThe Spring and Autumn (Chunqiu) is a chronicle kept by the dukes of the state of Lu from 722 to 481 B.C.E. Luxuriant Gems of the "Spring and Autumn" (Chunqiu fanlu) follows the interpretations of the Gongyang Commentary, whose transmitters sought to explicate the special language of the Spring and Autumn. The work is often ascribed to the Han scholar and court official Dong Zhongshu, but, as this study reveals, the text is in fact a compendium of writings by a variety of authors spanning several generations. It depicts a utopian vision of a flourishing humanity that they believed to be Confucius's legacy to the world.The Gongyang masters thought that Confucius had written the Spring and Autumn, employing subtle phrasing to indicate approval or disapproval of important events and personages. Luxuriant Gems therefore augments Confucian ethical and philosophical teachings with chapters on cosmology, statecraft, and other topics drawn from contemporary non-Confucian traditions. A major resource, this book features the first complete English-language translation of Luxuriant Gems, divided into eight thematic sections with introductions that address dating, authorship, authenticity, and the relationship between the Spring and Autumn and the Gongyang approach. Critically illuminating early Chinese philosophy, religion, literature, and politics, this book conveys the brilliance of intellectual life in the Han dynasty during the formative decades of the Chinese imperial state.
Luz - livro i
by Luis Gonzalez Vasco Figueiredo Cruz BentoClara é uma jovem Cubana, descontente com a Revolução. Planeia partir com o marido para os Estados Unidos, para iniciarem uma nova vida. Mas uma estranha Visitação pelo Anjo Gabriel, anunciando-lhe que está grávida da nova Filha de Deus, faz com que Clara reconsidere as suas opções. Irá ela ter a criança em solo Americano? Será feliz com o marido? E Jesus, o que acha Ele da ideia de ter uma irmã? Não percam esta história, original e absorvente.
Luzca estupenda, siéntase fabulosa: 12 claves para disfrutar de una vida saludable ahora
by Joyce Meyer¿Tiene idea de cuán valiosa es usted? ¿Padece de autoestima baja o se odia a sí misma? ¿Abusa de su cuerpo por la mala alimentación o malos hábitos, o simplemente usted se coloca después de los niños, el esposo, los padres, el jefe y los amigos? Entonces, usted no entiende cuánto vale. Usted ha sido colocada en esta tierra para propagar el amor de Dios, y nada puede ser más valioso que eso. Quizás usted jamás se enteró de lo importante que es. Joyce Meyer provee un plan de doce claves para superar los hábitos de la alimentación y falta de ejercicios que nos privan de hacer todo lo que Dios nos ha llamado a hacer. Para ayudarnos a hacerlo, el pan de Joyce brinda principios que incluyen: Dejemos que Dios tome las cargas pesadas Aprendamos a amar nuestro cuerpo Hagámonos responsables ¡Y mucho más! ¡Dios tiene planeado un gran futuro para usted, y es necesario que usted esté lista para Él! Es necesario que luzca estupenda y se sienta fabulosa, lista para hacer cualquier cosa que Dios le pida que haga.
Ly-Lan and the New Class Mix-up (Ly-Lan Finds a Way)
by Hà DinhSometimes things don&’t turn out the way we plan! In this chapter book series about a daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, Ly-Lan navigates her life as a new third grader—complete with old and new friends, unexpected (and disappointing) changes at home and school, and finding a way to thrive.Third grade is not starting the way Ly-Lan pictured. First, her best friend Cece is put in another class--even after Ly-Lan prayed they would be in the same one. And then Ly-Lan is tasked with showing the new Vietnamese student around. Ly-Lan wants to hang out with Cece, not play translator to the new girl, and she doesn&’t understand why her prayers aren&’t being answered. If Ly-Lan is going to flourish in third grade, she must learn to trust in God&’s plans, especially when it means making some adjustments to her own.Ly-Lan and the New Class Mix-up:Is the first in a series of illustrated early chapter books about Ly-Lan, a third grader tackling familiar themes like friendship, overcoming obstacles, and navigating changes in life with gracePerfect for kids ages 6 and up or reluctant or emerging readers just starting to read chapter books on their own.Is an encouraging read for reluctant readers with its illustrated chapters.Is written by Vietnamese American author Ha Dinh, creator of HappyDaysinFirstGrade.com and @hellomrsdinh on Instagram
Lydia
by Paula GooderThe New Testament tells us very little about Lydia, a seller of purple cloth who was living in Philippi when she met the apostle Paul on his second missionary journey. And yet she is considered the first recorded convert to Christianity in Europe. In her second work of fiction, Biblical scholar and popular author and speaker Paula Gooder tells Lydia's story - who she was, the life she lived and her first-century faith - and in doing so opens up Paul's letter to the Philippians, giving a sense of the cultural and historical pressures that shaped Paul's thinking, and the faith of the early church.Written in the gripping style of Gerd Theissen's The Shadow of the Galilean, and similarly rigorously researched, this is a book for everyone and anyone who wants to engage more deeply and imaginatively with Paul's theology - from one of the UK's foremost New Testament scholars.
Lydia
by Paula GooderThe New Testament tells us very little about Lydia, a seller of purple cloth who was living in Philippi when she met the apostle Paul on his second missionary journey. And yet she is considered the first recorded convert to Christianity in Europe. In her second work of fiction, Biblical scholar and popular author and speaker Paula Gooder tells Lydia's story - who she was, the life she lived and her first-century faith - and in doing so opens up Paul's letter to the Philippians, giving a sense of the cultural and historical pressures that shaped Paul's thinking, and the faith of the early church.Written in the gripping style of Gerd Theissen's The Shadow of the Galilean, and similarly rigorously researched, this is a book for everyone and anyone who wants to engage more deeply and imaginatively with Paul's theology - from one of the UK's foremost New Testament scholars.
Lydia's Hope (Lost Sisters of Pleasant Valley #1)
by Marta PerryThree Amish sisters, separated when very young, know nothing about one another--until a long-held secret is revealed. <P><P> With no memory of her birth parents, or the tragic accident that took their lives, Lydia Beachy has always been grateful for the aunt and uncle who took her in and raised her as their own. Now a married woman with two sons, Lydia finds her life turned upside down when she discovers that she has two younger sisters: Susanna, who was adopted by an Amish family in another community, and Chloe, who was raised by their grandmother among the Englisch. Angry and confused, Lydia first seeks out Susanna but stops short of telling her the truth. To track down Chloe, she enlists the help of a neighbor who has spent some years in the Englisch world. <P>Meanwhile, Lydia's husband, Adam, is keeping a secret of his own. Lydia yearns to be united with the sisters she has never known, but will revealing herself to them tear their lives apart...or enrich them beyond all imagining?
Lydia: A Novel
by Lois T. HendersonBestselling author Lois Henderson weaves the brief New Testament account of Lydia, the seller of purple in Acts 16:14, into a colorful and biblically accurate novel. Creatively filling in the gaps and vividly portraying this drama of faith and salvation, the author tells a story that pulses with excitement, while giving us a fascinating look at the life and times of ancient Macedonia. Lydia was a successful and influential businesswoman in Philippi--a beautiful town thriving under Roman rule. But more significantly, she was the seeker after truth who became Paul's first Christian convert in Europe. It was her home that nurtured the church of Philippi, whose members were later referred to by Paul as his "joy and crown." And it was to her home that Paul and Silas came after their miraculous release from prison. The author's familiarity with the period adds authenticity to the story, supplying true-to-history details of everyday life and sparkling dialogue for the very human characters. Dramatic and gripping, Mrs. Henderson's narrative portrays Paul's impact on one part of the Roman world as seen by the first Christian to carry the Message through Europe and westward. "Through the pages of Lydia, the reader steps into the New Testament town of Philippi to experience the conflicts and joys of her newfound faith in God. Mrs. Henderson has written a convincing account of Lydia's salvation and her subsequent ministry of hospitality to Paul and his fellow travelers."--Virtue Lois T. Henderson is the popular and respected author of such biblical novels as Ruth, Hagar, and Abigail. She is much in demand as a lecturer and has written numerous articles and short stories for Guideposts, Reader's Digest, Redbook, Woman's Day, and Family Circle.
Lying Awake: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Mark SalzmanMark Salzman's Lying Awake is a finely wrought gem that plumbs the depths of one woman's soul, and in so doing raises salient questions about the power-and price-of faith.Sister John's cloistered life of peace and prayer has been electrified by ever more frequent visions of God's radiance, leading her toward a deep religious ecstasy. Her life and writings have become examples of devotion. Yet her visions are accompanied by shattering headaches that compel Sister John to seek medical help. When her doctor tells her an illness may be responsible for her gift, Sister John faces a wrenching choice: to risk her intimate glimpses of the divine in favor of a cure, or to continue her visions with the knowledge that they might be false-and might even cost her her life.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Lying Down Mountain
by Heyoka MerrifieldIn this third volume of the White Buffalo Woman Trilogy, Heyoka Merrifield continues the story of White Buffalo Woman and her journey through the land of the Lying Down Mountain. Set in the home of the peaceful Hopi Nation and based on Hopi culture and mythology, Lying Down Mountain contains sacred wisdom of peace and spirituality that can bring tranquility to today's turbulent Mother Earth. The Native American saga begins with the first two volumes in the series, Eyes of Wisdom and Painted Earth Temple.
Lying and Christian Ethics
by Christopher O. TollefsenLying and Christian Ethics defends the controversial "absolute view" of lying, which maintains that an assertion contrary to the speaker's mind is always wrong, regardless of the speaker's intentions. Whereas most people believe that a lie told for a good cause, such as protecting Jews from discovery by Nazis, is morally acceptable, Christopher Tollefsen argues that Christians should support the absolute view. He looks back to the writings of Augustine and Aquinas to illustrate that lying violates the basic human goods of integrity and sociality and severely compromises the values of religion and truth. He critiques the comparatively permissive views espoused by Cassian, Bonhoeffer, and Niebuhr and argues that lies often jeopardize the good causes for which they are told. Beyond framing a moral absolute against lying, this book explores the questions of to whom we owe the truth and when, and what steps we may take when we should not give it.
Lying and Truthfulness: A Thomistic Perspective
by Stewart ClemIn this book, Stewart Clem develops an account of truthfulness that is grounded in the Thomistic virtue of veracitas. Unlike most contemporary Christian ethicists, who narrowly focus on the permissibility of lying, he turns to the virtue of truthfulness and illuminates its close relationship to the virtue of justice. This approach generates a more precise taxonomy of speech acts and shows how they are grounded in specific virtues and vices. Clem's study also contributes to the contemporary literature on Aquinas, who is often classified alongside Augustine and Kant as holding a rigorist position on lying. Meticulously researched, this volume clarifies what set Aquinas's view apart in his own day and how it is relevant to our own. Clem demonstrates that Aquinas's account provides a genuine alternative to rigorist and consequentialist approaches. His analysis also reveals the perennial relevance of Aquinas's thought by bringing it to bear on contemporary social and ethical issues.