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Lutheran Confessionalism
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This article understands the term ‘confessionalism’ as ‘defining the church by confessional document’ (5). The authors of the Lutheran Confessions (for the historical and theological background cf. ) were deliberately conscious of the contemporary character of the confessional writings in t...
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- Werner Klän
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Protestant Recovery of Deacons and Deaconesses
Pastor Stephen Boumann of Trinity Church, Bogota, New Jersey, started DIAKONIA , an inter-Lutheran program in the New York metropolitan area which delivered training for congregational deacons, both male and female.
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The terms ‘deaconess’ and ‘deacon’ refer to an office of service in the church that exists today and dates back to the first century. The terms themselves are derived from the Greek verb, diakonein, and its cognate nouns diakonos and diakonia. Diakonein meant to serve or to minister. The no...
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- Jeannine Olson
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Prayer
From the eighth century onwards, prayers addressed ‘to the Trinity’ were introduced into the Roman liturgy. This is an obvious example of a Carolingina attempt to create unity by imposing doctrinal orthodoxy upon liturgy, leading to complicated and even strained prayers ( Jungmann 1978 : 74–77 ).
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In this entry, the Christian theology of prayer will be approached as a reflection on prayer practices. Prayer is a communicative act by which one or more human beings address themselves to God, in the awareness that God already has established the divine-human relationship. Christianity is a...
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- Marcel Sarot
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Ordained Ministries
The text uses imagery from the Trinity as a way of understanding the position and work of Christian ministers:
But let him [the bishop] be honoured by you as [is God], because the bishop sits for you in the place of God All Mighty.
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This article treats ordained ministries in the historic church traditions, East and West, which engage the ecumenical conversations, explorations, and emerging consensus on church-dividing issues on Christian ministry. The topics in this article include the development of structures of orda...
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- John St-Helier Gibaut
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Sabbath in the Christian Tradition
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The present article focuses on the Christian idea of the Sabbath, bringing in Judaism to the extent that it provides the necessary context for Christianity. It describes Sabbath in terms of the practices that define it. The most notable of these is abstention from everyday work. That is s...
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- Philip Alexander
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- Christianity
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