Twentieth-Century Lutheran Theologians

Twentieth-Century Lutheran Theologians
Author: Mark C. Mattes
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2013-08-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3647550450

This collection of essays examines important twentieth-century Lutheran theologians, including European and North American voices. Each essay provides an overview of the life and thought of important confessional Lutherans who shaped theology with an ecumenical, world-wide impact. The focus here is not on later twentieth-century figures but earlier ones, selected similar to the spirit manifest in Karl Barth's contention »lest we forget where contemporary theology came from« (Protestant Theology From Rousseau to Ritschl). The essays composed over the last five years were initiated by Lutheran Quarterly in order to assess our recent past as we move into a new millennium. The goal of each author, each a leading theologian, has been to describe each thinker's life and vocation and how each thinker's work continues to impact theology today.

Here We Stand

Here We Stand
Author: Hermann Sasse
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1987
Genre: Germany
ISBN: 9780859104296

God's Two Words

God's Two Words
Author: Jonathan A. Linebaugh
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2018-08-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1467450545

The distinction between God’s law and God’s gospel lies at the core of the Lutheran and Reformed traditions—and has long been a point of controversy between them. God’s Two Words offers new contributions from ten key Lutheran and Reformed scholars on the theological significance of the law-gospel distinction. Following introductory chapters that define the concepts of law and gospel from each tradition, contributors explore how the distinction between law and gospel plays out in theology, preaching, the reading of Scripture, and pastoral care. As it traces both the common ground and the areas of disagreement between the two traditions, this book amplifies and clarifies an important conversation that has been ongoing since the sixteenth century. CONTRIBUTORS Michael Allen Charles Arand Erik H. Herrmann Kelly Kapic Peter Malysz Mark C. Mattes Steven Paulson Katherine Sonderegger Scott Swain Kevin J. Vanhoozer