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The Lutheran Confessions: History and Theology of the Book of Concord (2012) Bodensieck, Julius, ed. The encyclopedia of the Lutheran Church (3 vol 1965) vol 1 and 3 online free; Brauer, James Leonard and Fred L. Precht, eds. Lutheran Worship: History and Practice (1993) Granquist, Mark. Lutherans in America: A New History (2015)
t. e. Lutheranismis a major branch of Protestantismthat identifies primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-centuryGermanmonk and reformerwhose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Churchlaunched the Reformationin 1517.[1] Lutheranism subsequently became the state religionof many parts of Northern Europe ...
Martin Luther OSA (/ ˈluːθər / LOO-thər; [ 1 ]German: [ˈmaʁtiːn ˈlʊtɐ] ⓘ; 10 November 1483 [ 2 ] – 18 February 1546) was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, professor, and Augustinian friar. [ 3 ] Luther was the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation, and his theological beliefs form the basis of Lutheranism.
Nordic countries. [edit] The Uppsala Cathedral, the headquarters of the Church of Sweden. Lutheranism is the established church in most of the Nordic countries including Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland. In these countries, where most people are Lutheran, the churches are supported by taxes, either indirectly through the general ...
The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), also known as the Missouri Synod, [3] is an orthodox, traditional, confessional Lutheran denomination in the United States.With 1.7 million members as of 2022 [4] it is the second-largest Lutheran body in the United States, behind the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
The North American Lutheran Church(NALC) is a Lutherandenomination with over 420 congregations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, counting more than 142,000 baptized members. The NALC believes all doctrines should and must be judged by the teaching of the Christian Scriptures(the Bible), in keeping with the historic Lutheran Confessions.
Religion in Germany (2022 estimate) 1 2. The religion of Protestantism (German: Protestantismus), a form of Christianity, was founded within Germany in the 16th-century Reformation. It was formed as a new direction from some Roman Catholic principles. It was led initially by Martin Luther and later by John Calvin.
The LWF was founded at Lund, Sweden, in 1947.Based in Geneva, Switzerland, it replaced the more informal Lutheran World Convention, which had been founded in 1924.The goal was to coordinate international activities of the many Lutheran churches, to provide a forum for discussions on theological and organizational issues, and to assist in philanthropy, missionary activity, and exchange of ...