"Theology in the Life of Lutheran Churches" -
Seminar Papers
Seminar I | Seminar II | Seminar III | Seminar IV | Plenary Presentations
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Seminar I: Interpreting the Bible in a global Lutheran
communion
David A. Brondos: “Recovering sola scriptura as a liberating principle: Reflections from the global South”
Bulti Fayissa: “His preference of the periphery: The faith of the foreigners in the Gospel of Matthew”
Kenneth Gora: “What has she gained after all? Still no land for her own. A Rereading of Deuteronomy 25:5-6”
James A. Kelhoffer: “New Testament constructions of power and legitimacy based on persecution: Exegesis and the global Lutheran communion in dialogue”
Girma Mohammed: “Whose meaning?: A critical look at wax and gold tradition as a unique ethiopian hermeneutics”
Elieshi Mungure: “Signs of hope: African woman’s perspective in the current rereading and reinterpreting the Bible in the Lutheran communion”
Duane A. Priebe: “Mutual fecundation: The creative interplay of texts and new contexts”
Batara Saut Marali Sihombing: “God and Mammon (Matthew 6:19-34) from a narrative approach”
Seminar II: Creation, redemption and eschatology
Kristin Graff-Kallevåg: “United with Christ in baptism”
Motoo Ishii: "Dialogue between Luther’s thought on 'communio sanctorum' and Japanese traditional spirituality"
Allen G. Jorgenson: “On the art of properly distinguishing law from law”
Cheryl M. Peterson: "Pneumatology and the cross: The challenge of Neo-Pentecostalism to Lutheran theology"
Rosane Pletsch: “Theology and ecology in dialogue”
Cornelia Richter: "Trust–Claim for Reliability"
Edward H. Schroeder: “Lutheranism's crying need: A mission theology for the 21st century Luther's own mission theology--Contemporary Lutheranism's best-kept secret”
Mary J. Streufert: “Thinking about Chalcedon from a feminist perspective: Transgressing boundaries within the boundaries of no division”
Samuel Yonas Deressa: “Entering into the now discussion of African theology of the late 1960s and 1970s through Gudina Tumsa’s approach”
Seminar III: Worship and other Christian practices
Dorothee Arnold: “Spiritual care and palliative care: Chances and challenges for pastoral care”
Peter Balslev-Clausen: “Hymns and hymn singing as an indicator of the situation of the church”
Samuel Frouisou: “The church's impact on African women's marital and social conditions: The practice of marriage”
Dorothea Haspelmath-Finatti: “‘Theologia prima’ liturgical theology as an ecumenical challenge to Lutheran worship practice”
Daniel Inyang: “Worship and other practices of Lutheran congregations”
Alex Mkumbo: “Church practice and church discipline in the worship service”
Kenneth Mtata: “African perceptions of childhood and its effect on Eucharistic practices that exclude children”
Colette Ranarivony: “Worship and other practices of Lutheran congregations: Pentecostal context”
Thomas Schattauer: “God's mission in the practice of assembly”
Basil Schild: “'It’s so Boring Waiting for Jesus.' Blessing and non-blessing in Central Australia”
Helen Grace Sironomy: “‘I fear no evil for you are with me’ - Presence of God as a source of strength to palliative care patients”
Teresa Swan Tuite: “Luther's tactual itinerary of grace”
Gertrud Tönsing: “Singing the Lutheran song”
Jens Wolff: “Worshipping-experience as the heart of Lutheran theology: An intercultural approach”
Seminar IV: The public vocation of churches in society
Norma Cook Everist: “The church’s vocation in society through the ministry of the laity in the languages of their daily lives”
Jerónimo José Granados: "Advantages and conflicts in theological education in Argentina: The ecclesiastical and ecumenical foundation of the Instituto Universitario ISEDET"
Paul John Isaak: “The church prophetic witness: Social, economic, and political engagement by churches”
Joas Bainomugisha Kahesi: “Concept of relationship theology”
Robert Kelly: "Public theology and the modern social imaginary"
Kathryn A. Kleinhans: "From private faiths to public church: 10 theses with an excursus on ecclesiology"
L. DeAne Lagerquist: “‘Lest we become beasts who devour each other’: A Lutheran calling to higher education in multi-religious settings”
Alan Ka Lun Lai: “Empire resisting pedagogies: Practicing theological education in the presence of empire”
John Rollefson: “Invoking in public”
Ernest Simmons: “Education for vocation in public life”
Antoinette Yindjara Beanzoui: "The function of catechesis in the church"
Tsvakai Zhou: "The public vocation of Lutheran churches"
