The Lutheran Companion

Enrich your Bible study like never before with this visually stunning and practical resource which includes:

Enrich your Bible study like never before with this visually stunning and practical resource which includes:

In this important new volume, Arand, Kolb, and Nestingen bring the fruit of an entire generation of scholarship to bear on these documents, making it an essential and up-to-date class text. The Lutheran Confessions places the documents solidly within their political, social, ecclesiastical and theological contexts, relating them to the world in which they took place. Though the book is not a theology of the Confessions, readers will clearly understand the issues at stake in the narratives, both in their own time, and in ours.

Background on the development of Lutheran Book of Worship and its suggested usage.

Highlighting the role of cultures in both the development of the Bible and in its subsequent reception around the world, The Peoples' Companion to the Bible enables students to see how social location-including gender, ethnicity, social class, and cultural pluralism-has figured in the ways particular peoples have understood the biblical text. But it also helps students formulate their own social location and biblical horizon as a key to understanding the Bible and its import for them.

Orders and rituals to dedicate property and to set persons in positions of leadership resources for ministry to the sick, dying, and grieving, and materials for use by the congregation for special circumstances and settings. Green leather, gold-edged, three colored ribbon markers.