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Authority Vested

Story of Identity and Change in the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod [Paperback]

by Todd

    • Book Format

      paperback

    • Publisher

      Eerdmans Publishing Company

    • Published

      December 1999

    • Weight

      523g

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      Product Description

      A narrative history of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod that sees authority—of scripture, of the ministry, of women, of the congregation, and of the synod itself—as the central contested issue in the church’s quest for identity.

      Recounting first the history of the denomination, from its beginnings in Saxony in 1847 to its growth into a modern ecclesial institution with 2.6 million members, Mary Todd describes how this ethnic church has retained its identity as a conservative enclave amid a dizzying array of Lutheran church mergers. Yet this identity has not gone unchallenged, and it remains at the root of internal political struggles that mark the synod’s twentieth-century history. Todd shows that in order to retain their theology amid profound historical change, the church has had to continually refine its understanding of authority, thereby fundamentally redefining its own historical identity as a confessional Lutheran congregation.

      Foreword by Martin E. Marty

      Specification

      • Book Format

        paperback

      • Publisher

        Eerdmans Publishing Company

      • Published

        December 1999

      • Weight

        523g

      • Page Count

        356

      • Dimensions

        153 x 229 x 21 mm

      • ISBN

        9780802844576

      • ISBN-10

        080284457X

      • Eden Code

        115972

      More Information

      • ISBN: 9780802844576

      • Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing Company

      • Release Date: December 1999

      • Weight: 523g

      • Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 21 mm

      • Eden Code: 115972


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