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What is a Confessional Lutheran?
Manage episode 480237274 series 1144056
The Thinking Fellows continue discussing the issue of a Lutheran identity crisis. This week, they deal with the moniker: confessional. They define confessional and explain why it is essential to Lutheranism. They also cover how the term has been used within specific movements in American Lutheranism, particularly the LCMS, to bludgeon people over a reasonable disagreement. Overall, Lutherans must subscribe to the Lutheran Confessions and thus be confessional, but it is not necessary to be involved in the gatekeeping that "confessional" movements can participate in today.
Show Notes:
What’s New from 1517:
The Impossible Prize: A Theology of Addiction by Donavan Riley
Broken Bonds: A Novel of the Reformation, Book 1 of 2 by Amy Mantravadi
More from the hosts:
464 episodes
Manage episode 480237274 series 1144056
The Thinking Fellows continue discussing the issue of a Lutheran identity crisis. This week, they deal with the moniker: confessional. They define confessional and explain why it is essential to Lutheranism. They also cover how the term has been used within specific movements in American Lutheranism, particularly the LCMS, to bludgeon people over a reasonable disagreement. Overall, Lutherans must subscribe to the Lutheran Confessions and thus be confessional, but it is not necessary to be involved in the gatekeeping that "confessional" movements can participate in today.
Show Notes:
What’s New from 1517:
The Impossible Prize: A Theology of Addiction by Donavan Riley
Broken Bonds: A Novel of the Reformation, Book 1 of 2 by Amy Mantravadi
More from the hosts:
464 episodes
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