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Cultural encounters in India : the local co-workers of Tranquebar Mission, 18th to 19th centuries
The history of social and religious encounter in 18th century South India is narrated through fascinating biographies and day to day lives of Indian workers in the Tranquebar Mission (1706-1845). The book challenges the notion that Christianity in colonial India was basically imposed from the outside. Liebau maintains that significant contributions were made by the local converts and mission co-workers who played an important role in the Tranquebar Mission.
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Doctrinal controversy and lay religiosity in late Reformation Germany : the case of Mansfeld
Using evidence generated by the Flacian controversy over original sin as it transpired in the German territory of Mansfeld, this study demonstrates that by the late sixteenth century, much of the laity there had developed a complex understanding of Lutheran doctrine.
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Missionary families find a sense of place and identity
Missionary Families Find a Sense of Place and Identity follows the lives of two generations of an American Lutheran missionary community as they live within Tanzania, the United States, and other parts of the world. John Benson compares the lives of the missionary generation to that of their children and focuses on the two themes of connection to place and religious development.
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A chronicle of joy: Plotting the path to full eucharistic agreement between the Uniting Church in Australia and the Lutheran Church of Australia
As with most inter-church dialogues, the long-term goal of the official dialogue between the Lutheran Church of Australia (LCA) and the Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) has been to work and pray for full communion between our churches as an expression of the unity we have in Christ. That is not to say that full communion is pursued at the expense of more proximate goals, such as deepening our understanding and appreciation of the partner church's teachings and practices, testing inherited misgivings about the other church through careful listening and thoughtful probing, and preparing clearer and more comprehensive articulations of shared understandings. However, dialogue participants constantly bear in mind the final goal, that of full communion, the hope and promise of reciprocal eucharistic hospitality and shared ministries.
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Jesus Is Female
In the middle of the Great Awakening, a group of religious radicals called Moravians came to North America from Germany to pursue ambitious missionary goals. How did the Protestant establishment react to the efforts of this group, which allowed women to preach, practiced alternative forms of marriage, sex, and family life, and believed Jesus could be female? Aaron Spencer Fogleman explains how these views, as well as the Moravians' missionary successes, provoked a vigorous response by Protestant authorities on both sides of the Atlantic.
Based on documents in German, Dutch, and English from the Old World and the New,Jesus Is Femalechronicles the religious violence that erupted in many German and Swedish communities in colonial America as colonists fought over whether to accept the Moravians, and suggests that gender issues were at the heart of the raging conflict. Colonists fought over the feminine, ecumenical religious order offered by the Moravians and the patriarchal, confessional order offered by Lutheran and Reformed clergy. This episode reveals both the potential and the limits of radical religion in early America. Though religious nonconformity persisted despite the repression of the Moravians, and though America remained a refuge for such groups, those who challenged the cultural order in their religious beliefs and practices would not escape persecution.
Jesus Is Femaletraces the role of gender in eighteenth-century religious conflict back to the European Reformation and the beginnings of Protestantism. This transatlantic approach heightens our understanding of American developments and allows for a better understanding of what occurred when religious freedom in a colonial setting led to radical challenges to tradition and social order.
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Lutheran Dualities
Week for week preachers are faced with the task of helping their listeners to read the Bible with its wide range of different texts. The so-called dualities of law and gospel, faith and works, old and new covenant, promise and fulfilment are a key to understanding these texts. They have long been taken in the Lutheran churches as an aid to understanding the Bible. However, they have often been misunderstood and in particular used as criticism of Jewish theology.This manual deals openly with this history of interpretation. It encourages a contemporary and critical approach to the dualities by describing their different theological backgrounds and illuminating their significance for the present. It explains how the dualities can encourage a lively preaching culture that combines theological understanding of the Bible with an interpretation that is suitable for the contemporary situation.The book was written in the context of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany and supplemented by a preface for the English-language edition.
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Reforming Mary : changing images of the Virgin Mary in Lutheran sermons of the sixteenth century
This book explores how Mary is presented in the sermons of Lutheran pastors in the 16th century. It focuses on the treatment of Mary, the continuities and changes in theologies about her, and her presentation beginning with Martin Luther and continuing with clergy in the Lutheran tradition. It is shown that Lutheran preachers have transformed the traditional image of Mary — she no longer serves as the powerful Queen of Heaven, but is seen as a meek, pious, chaste and obedient girl. Because of the theological changes introduced by Luther and the Lutheran clergy, Mary could no longer be portrayed as an active figure, but must serve as a passive representative of the faithful Christian.
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