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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