Martin Luther’s theological thinking, as it worked to shape the Lutheran world in the centuries following the Reformation, has had a decisive impact on the creation of the Nordic social-democratic ...

Lutheranism is a theological movement to reform Christianity with the teaching of justification by grace through faith alone. Lutheranism identifies with the theology confessed in the Augsburg ...

According to Estonian theologian Dr. Johann-Christian Põder, dynamic state reforms along individualist capitalist lines, which he sees as stemming from a more 'Calvinist' approach to society, need to ...

Seven theologians call North American Lutheranism back to the Word and the Lutheran confessions. Almost everyone knows Martin Luther’s famous defense before the Diet of Worms: “Here I stand, I can do ...

German heritage was front and center Sunday at Grace Lutheran Church's second Grace Fest in Holts Summit. The celebration of German heritage within the Lutheran Church featured a feast of traditional ...

The poet Robinson Jeffers opposed America’s entry into the Second World War after Pearl Harbor. It made him persona non grata in American letters: “When ‘Pearl Harbor’ and other poems were collected ...

John Carl Ylvisaker was a rarity: A widely traveled musician rooted in Minnesota, and a self-effacing man whose music was sung by thousands across the world. Ylvisaker, one of the most popular ...

Changes in the distribution of Lutheran membership in suburban Chicago municipalities at status intervals between 1950 and 1960 are presented. Summarized, the changes are: a mild decline in ...

Religious and cultural Lutheran values have shaped Nordic societies for centuries. But instead of encouraging capitalism as in Calvinist Europe, Lutheranism promoted a social-democratic welfare state ...