Episcopacy in the Lutheran Church? Studies in the development and definition of the office of church leadership. / Edited by Ivar Asheim and Victor R. Gold. With an afterword by Jerald C. Brauer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Asheim, Ivar, editor.

Gold, Victor Roland, 1924-2008, editor.

Standardized Title:

Kirchenpräsident oder Bischof? English.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lutheran Church--Government.

Lutheran Church.

Physical Description:

viii, 261 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Fortress Press, [1969, c1970].

Contents:

Church government and the office of the bishop in the first three centuries, by L. Goppelt.

Church government and the office of bishop from the fourth century to the Reformation, by E. Beyreuther.

The development of the offices of leadership in the German Lutheran churches, 1517-1918, by B. Lohse.

The development of offices of leadership in the German Lutheran churches, 1918-present, by K. Schmidt-Clausen.

The post-Reformation developments of the episcopacy in Denmark, Norway, and Iceland, by S. Borregaard.

The post-Reformation developments of the episcopacy in Sweden, Finland, and the Baltic States, by M. Parvio.

The development of the offices of leadership in the Lutheran churches of Eastern Europe, by H.-M. Thimme.

Lutheran ecclesiastical government in the United States of America, by T. G. Tappert.

The derivative churches: Latin American, Africa, Asia, Australia, by A. Sovik.

Notes:

Translation of Kirchenpräsident oder Bischof?

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages 215-251).

OCLC:

64711