Wilhelm Loehe and North America : historical perspective and living legacy / Craig L. Nessan ; foreword by Kathryn A. Kleinhans.

• Introduction: What does Wilhelm Loehe mean to me? -- Wilhelm Loehe's significance for church and mission in North America -- Wilhelm Loehe's influence on the Iowa Synod -- Two historical trajectories in the Missouri and Iowa Synods -- Wilhelm Loehe in Deindoerfer's history of the Iowa Synod -- Friedrich Bauer (1812-1874): hidden behind the giant of Neuendettelsau -- Theological curriculum at the Missionsseminar Neuendettelsau in the nineteenth century -- The theology of Wartburg Theological Seminary -- The Loehe legacy and the church of the future.

• "Wilhelm Loehe is one of the most significant nineteenth-century figures for North American church life and mission, whose influence continues into the present. Loehe is unique for joining together aspects of the Christian life often held to be antithetical: worship and mission, orthodoxy and pietism, evangelical proclamation and diakonia, and theological imagination and practical skill in administration. Already in the nineteenth century Loehe contributed a vital principle for advancing ecumenical understanding: the idea of "open questions." When the church confesses core teachings as one, there does not need to be agreement on all secondary matters in order to live together in church fellowship. This book explores Loehe's historical activity as a pastor, as a supporter of mission in North America, as an organizer (together with Friedrich Bauer) of theological education in North America, and as a founder of deaconess institutions in Neuendettelsau, Germany, that still exist today. The central themes represented by Loehe not only constitute a matrix that has significance for the church and its mission today but also constitute an agenda for the church of the future."--Provided by publisher 

Ämnesord

Lutherska kyrkan  (sao)

Prästämbetet  (sao)

Mission  (sao)

Lutheran Church  -- Clergy -- Biography. (LCSH)

Lutheran Church  -- Doctrines. (LCSH)

Lutheran Church  -- Doctrines (fast)

Clergy ¡ Appointment, call and election  (lcsh)

Lutheran Church  (lcsh)

Missions  (lcsh)

Nordamerika  (sao)

Personnamn

Löhe, Wilhelm, 1808-1872.

Löhe, Wilhelm, 1808-1872 -- Influence.

Löhe, Wilhelm, 1808-1872

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Cjz Kyrkohistoria: särskilda personer

Klassifikation

BX8080.L57 (LCC)

284.1092 (DDC)

Cjz Löhe (kssb/8)