Sunday, July 12, 2026

Article: Lutheran Ecclesiology - Jonathan Mumme

Jonathan Mumme's article in the St Andrew's Encyclopedia of Theology is Lutheran Ecclesiology.  

The article covers

Introduction

Late medieval ecclesiological thought

The ecclesiology of the reformers and the confessions

            General characteristics

            Symbolical expression (the Lutheran Confessions)

            Productive theological pairings

                    Invisible and visible

                    Faith and the means of grace

                    Church and marks of the church

                    Ministry (Amt) and congregation (Gemeinde)

                    Internality and externality as ecclesiological diagnostic

Historical unfolding

                   Orthodoxy and Enlightenment

                   The long nineteenth century

                   Recent and contemporary

                   Polities and particular ecclesial trajectories

                          Germany

                          Nordic countries

                          America

                          Amalgamations

                  Lutheran approaches to general ecclesiological concerns

                          Israel and eschatology

                          The church and the state

Current state of play

                 Federations, communions, and associations

                 Ecumenism and post-ecumenism

                 Directions toward the future


Lutheran Ecclesiology by Jonathan Mumme is available at St Andrews Encyclopedia of Theology 

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