23 Facts About Lutheran

Lutheran clergy became civil servants and the Lutheran churches became part of the state.

Frederick's son, the later Christian III, was openly Lutheran, which prevented his election to the throne upon his father's death in 1533.

Unlike Catholicism, the Lutheran Church does not believe that tradition is a carrier of the "Word of God", or that only the communion of the Bishop of Rome has been entrusted to interpret the "Word of God".

Lutheran scholasticism developed gradually, especially for the purpose of arguing with the Jesuits, and it was finally established by Johann Gerhard.

Dissenting Lutheran pastors were often reprimanded by the government bureaucracy overseeing them, for example, when they tried to correct Rationalist influences in the parish school.

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In 1817, Frederick William III of Prussia ordered the Lutheran and Reformed churches in his territory to unite, forming the Prussian Union of Churches.

Lutheran led the Neo-Lutheran Repristination School of theology, which advocated a return to the orthodox theologians of the 17th century and opposed modern Bible scholarship.

Neo-Lutheran movement managed to slow secularism and counter atheistic Marxism, but it did not fully succeed in Europe.

The Neo-Lutheran call to renewal failed to achieve widespread popular acceptance because it both began and continued with a lofty, idealistic Romanticism that did not connect with an increasingly industrialized and secularized Europe.

Lutheran held that every passage of Scripture has one straightforward meaning, the literal sense as interpreted by other Scripture.

Doctrinal positions of Lutheran churches are not uniform because the Book of Concord does not hold the same position in all Lutheran churches.

Orthodox Lutheran theology holds that God made the world, including humanity, perfect, holy and sinless.

Lutheran earnestly offers to all who receive the sacrament forgiveness of sins and eternal salvation.

Lutheran hymnody is well known for its doctrinal, didactic, and musical richness.

Johann Sebastian Bach, a devout Lutheran, composed a huge body of sacred music for the Lutheran church.

Today, a few Lutheran congregations have contemporary worship as their sole form of worship.

Sizable Lutheran missions arose for the first time during the 19th century.

Lutheran schools have always been a core aspect of Lutheran mission work, starting with Bartholomew Ziegenbalg and Heinrich Putschasu, who began work in India in year 1706.

However, the merger between the Lutheran, United, and Reformed state churches was retained under the name Evangelical Church in Germany .

In Russia, Laestadians of Lutheran background cooperate with the Ingrian church, but since Laestadianism is an interdenominational movement, some are Eastern Orthodox.

Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil is a Lutheran church founded in 1904 in Rio Grande do Sul, a southern state in Brazil.

Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod started a Brazilian mission, the first for WELS in the Portuguese language, in the early 1980s.

Today, the Brazilian WELS Lutheran Churches are self-supporting and an independent mission partner of the Latin America WELS missions team.