Vol. 51 No. 1 (2024): Christian Identity in Crisis: The Legacy of Wilhelm Loehe as Inspiration for the Church Today

 

This issue of Currents in Theology and Mission—as well as the next—features papers presented at the 5th Conference of the International Loehe Society, July 2022. The Society has gathered periodically since its founding in 2005. The 2022 conference theme, “Christian Identity in Crisis,” offered space to reflect on Loehe’s theological and pastoral work in relation to crises from within and without the church of his own time. Through his many endeavors—in church and mission, liturgy and diakonia, Lutheran confession and piety—Loehe grappled with matters of Christian identity, both personal and ecclesial. The question at the horizon of interest in Loehe’s work is how to understand Loehe’s legacy to us in the face of crises to Christian identity today.

 

Published: 2023-12-18

 

 

Introduction to This Issue

 

Christian Identity in Crisis
The Legacy of Wilhelm Loehe as Inspiration for the Church Today
Thomas H. Schattauer

 

 

Articles

 

Sermon at Opening Worship
Martin J. Lohrmann

 

Wilhelm Loehe and the Future Church
Craig L. Nessan

 

Loehe about Himself
What Were Loehe's Key Theological Themes?
Rudolf Keller; Thomas H. Schattauer, Allison Werner Hoenen

 

The History and Development of Doctrine
Loehe's Posture Toward Nineteenth-Century Theological Trends
James Ambrose Lee II

 

Loehe's Liturgical Imagination
Inspiration for Christian Identity and Mission
Thomas H. Schattauer

 

Why Bother with Dusting Off and Updating Deinzer?
Reflections on Writing a New Biography of Loehe
John R. Stephenson

 

 

Currents Focus

 

Wilhelm Loehe, Preaching and the Lord's Prayer
Joshua Pfeiffer

 

Toward a More Trauma-Informed Church
Equipping Faith Communities to Prevent and Respond to Abuse
Pete Singer

 

 

Book Reviews

 

Book Reviews - January 2024
Craig L. Nessan, Troy M. Troftgruben

 

 

Preaching Helps

 

He Never Prayed for Nineveh
Jonah in a Year of Conflicts
Barbara K. Lundblad

 

 

 

 

Vol. 51 No. 2 (2024): Christian Identity in Crisis: The Legacy of Wilhelm Loehe as Inspiration for the Church Today

 

This is the second of two issues of Currents in Theology and Mission devoted to the papers presented at the 5th Conference of the International Loehe Society, July 2022, under the theme “Christian Identity in Crisis: The Legacy of Wilhelm Loehe as Inspiration for the Church Today.” The responses of this nineteenth-century German Lutheran pastor to the crises of his own time were both theologically informed and regularly embodied in the communal practices of spiritual care and formation, liturgy, diakonia, and mission. This kind of responsive posture—one that holds together the claims and practices at the heart of Christian identity and genuine engagement with present need for personal and social healing—remains relevant for the church today.

 

Published: 2024-03-22

 

 

Introduction to This Issue

 

Christian Identity in Crisis
The Legacy of Wilhelm Loehe as Inspiration for the Church Today
Thomas H. Schattauer

 

 

Articles

 

Wilhelm Loehe's Doctrine of the Office of Ministry in Historical and Contemporary Perspective
Stephen Pietsch

 

A Missionary Ecclesiology
Loehe's Contribution to Contemporary Discussions of the 'missio Dei'
Klaus Detlev Schulz

 

Loehe's Legacy and Borderless Solidarity
Destigmatizing Immigrants in a Xenophobic Nation
Man-Hei Yip

 

Loehe, Liturgies, and Lives Mattering
Jan Rippentrop Schnell

 

Diaconal Work in Neuendettelsau through the Ages
From the Nineteenth-Century Deaconess Institution to the Diaconal Enterprise of the Twenty-First Century
Mathias Hartmann

 

Serving on Bended Knee, Serving on Tiptoe
The History and Future of the Diaconal Movement in the United States
Jenny Wiley Legath

 

The Harvest is Plentiful
Living with Imigination
Christian Weber

 

 

Special Section

 

Christian Identity in Crisis, January 2024 Articles
The Legacy of Wilhelm Loehe as Inspiration for the Church Today
Craig L. Nessan

 

 

Currents Focus

 

Future Church
A Lutheran Sacramental Ecclesiology for the Twenty-first Century
Michael J. Schulte

 

James Kenneth Echols Prize for Excellence in Preaching Sermons
Gail Kenny, Katherine Mueller

 

 

Book Reviews

 

Book Reviews - April 2024
Craig L. Nessan, Troy M. Troftgruben

 

 

Preaching Helps

 

Sundays after Easter through Sundays after Pentecost
Preaching in This Urgent Time
Barbara K. Lundblad

 

 

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