Clearly, many Lutherans see full communion with the Episcopal Church as a costly decision that threatens Lutheran identity. |
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Compatible, perhaps, with a Lutheran theology of the cross, Peters's view of the cosmic dance is cruciform. |
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Luther's critique of the Dionysian apophatic, however, is not some Protestant innovation, as I have documented in my Lutheran Quarterly essay. |
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He opposed Lutheran theology and, fatally, the English throne's break with Rome. |
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This reality emerged in theological discussions that the Finnish Lutheran theologians have had with the Russian Orthodox Church. |
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George A. Lindbeck is a Lutheran theologian and professor emeritus of the Yale Divinity School. |
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This dimension of a theology of the cross must be viewed within a Lutheran theology in which God values life and creation. |
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Barth was more heavily influenced by the Lutheran theology of Harnack and Herrmann in his student years. |
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Simultaneously, Cranach continued to produce altarpieces and devotional images reflecting Lutheran theology. |
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Moe-Lobeda succeeds in showing that an accurate reading of Lutheran theology poses a moral challenge to the everyday life of affluent Americans. |
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I search my memory bank and remember that some Lutheran clergyman were taken to camps during the war. |
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Almost all Danes are of Nordic stock, and most are members of the Lutheran church. |
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Hence Hindu Gandhi, Baptist Martin Luther King Jr. and Lutheran Dag Hammarskjold earn mentions in Lives of the Saints. |
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After a few weeks of attending Methodist, Baptist, and Lutheran churches, her parents finally decided their new denomination was Presbyterian. |
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This edition will instruct and inspire all who use it and help them learn what it means to be, and to remain, a genuinely confessing Lutheran. |
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Protestant groups include the United Church of Canada and the Anglican, Presbyterian, Baptist, and Lutheran churches. |
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It is also the feast day for the many Lutheran churches around the country that are named Trinity. |
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Barbara focuses on grass-roots development and diaconal work within Lutheran churches in East Africa. |
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I took my 3-year-old nephew to Easter services at a Lutheran church near my home. |
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Four months later Hobgood was having lunch in the coffee house in the basement of St. Bartholomew's Lutheran Church. |
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The 30-minute worship draws upon an Anglican prayer service from New Zealand, Lutheran or Episcopal compline, and Holden Evening Prayer. |
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Our church is in a companion relationship with the Bolivian Evangelical Lutheran Church, most of whose 20,000 members are Aymara. |
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An unused parsonage at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Ottumwa, Iowa, has been put to good use. |
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I've been a member of several Lutheran churches and have sat through many congregational meetings. |
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Selian is a health-care ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. |
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My husband and I tithe, and we give most of our money to the Lutheran church. |
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The route threads through and terminates in the crypt of the Lutheran church where the cultural centre was originally housed. |
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The theological views held by the Lutheran Church to the contrary, the tombs assert the contiguity of the community of the living with the dead. |
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The orthodox Lutheran clergy even dreamed of replacing the public schools with Lutheran parochial schools, but lacked the means to do so. |
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Religion was similarly important, as he patronized Lutheran pastors and sponsored Lutheran children in this confessionally-mixed city. |
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Finland is about 98 percent Lutheran but only about 2 percent churchgoing, so Lutheran notions of sin and grace are long forgotten by most Finns. |
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Babies are christened according to the principles set down by the Lutheran Church of Iceland. |
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Most of the original Grand Masters in my country were priests in the Lutheran Protestant church. |
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The Lutheran priesthood is paid by the state and serves sixty-six churches and chapels. |
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Ilse was Lutheran, but seemed fairly unreligious and hardly ever attended church. |
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There was, of course, a vast amount of music in the U.S. in this period besides symphonic music, Lutheran hymnody, and Wagnerian opera. |
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Today most Sami practice the dominant Lutheran religion of the Nordic countries in which they live. |
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There is not room here for a full explication of these distinctively Lutheran perspectives. |
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Donaldson becomes Crown Princess Mary, a Danish citizen and member of Denmark's State Lutheran Church. |
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Bach came of age as a Lutheran composer at the height of the baroque period, a time of grandiose, richly ornamented architecture and music. |
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In the 1980s Concordia Lutheran College in Austin still received considerable Wendish support. |
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In more recent times the Jesuit Vasquez, and the Lutheran divines G. Calixtus and Walch, have defended the Adoptionists as essentially orthodox. |
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Most Finns are Lutheran while the majority of Karelians are Eastern Orthodox. |
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Being raised in a Lutheran tradition, my vocal writing is largely chorale style homophony contrasting with traditional contrapuntal textures. |
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Despite superficial resemblances to their medieval predecessors, these Lutheran altarpieces share a number of striking new features. |
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Because it is a state church, however, the Lutheran Church cannot defrock him. |
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This book is intended primarily for lay study groups in Episcopal parishes and Lutheran congregations. |
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If you do not regularly receive The Lutheran, I encourage you to subscribe. |
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He was ordained as a Lutheran minister in 1819 and later entered the Presbyterian ministry. |
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An ordained pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, he previously taught homiletics and liturgics at the University of Notre Dame. |
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At present he is instructor in liturgics at the Japan Lutheran College and Theological Seminary in Tokyo. |
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In a Lutheran service, there is a minister, a cantor, a servant, and an organist. |
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One of those is David Cherwien, cantor of Mount Olive Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, the same position Manz held for many years. |
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To contrast the witness with those in the mixture is simply to restate the difference between Anabaptist and Lutheran. |
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Ultimately this defense was transmogrified into a virulent attack on the Danish State Lutheran Church. |
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Keith had gone to Lutheran services last week and found a pleasant enough crowd there. |
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The Lutheran chorale became the sure spiritual foundation of Bach's output, no more tellingly than in the Eighteen Chorales Bach revised towards the end of his life. |
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Lutheran chorales were so often the basis of Bach's counterpoint, and Wagner devised for his Nuremberg mastersingers a counterpoint that was both traditional and contemporary. |
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This fall she will begin studies at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, pursuing candidacy for diaconal ministry with the hope of working in the area of peacemaking. |
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Kaiserwerth was a new type of hospital operated by Lutheran deaconesses and was reported to be like no other hospital in all of Europe or the United States. |
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He recalls Pero's leadership in articulating and clarifying the challenge of indigenizing the Lutheran tradition in African-American and other communities of color. |
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He left for France and then Germany, where he was excommunicated by the Lutheran Church, and returned to Italy in the mistaken belief that it would be safe to do so. |
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Three of the Latin choruses are directly followed by Lutheran chorales. |
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The organizing of an association of Lutheran deaconesses with their charitable work for the weakest members of society required an increasing amount of attention. |
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The plans for All Saints Lutheran Church, Phoenix, include a large bow window on one side of the worship space affording a dramatic view of mountains in the distance. |
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The three closest affiliates are Swedish Covenant Hospital, Lutheran General Hospital and Mt. Sinai Hospital, which is where most student clerkships are done. |
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I wondered whether I should mumble that I had been raised by a German Lutheran. |
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Unlike his predecessors and most Lutheran clergy, Hanson earned his first divinity degree at a non-Lutheran institution, Union Theological Seminary in New York. |
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Reinke lost his pulpit and was drummed out of the conservative Missouri Synod of the Lutheran denomination. |
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Emma and Erna go regularly to thrift store at the Lutheran Church, and buy for the sick and shut-in or anyone else they think just might need a treasure they spy. |
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And it is certainly true that he often exaggerates, or at any rate misdescribes, some of the contrasts he discerns between medieval and Lutheran religious sensibility. |
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Also, the reverend Jan Lookingbill from Emmanuel Lutheran Church, which Rehnquist attended when he lived in Bethesda, Maryland, will also participate in that service. |
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Furthermore, the Lutherans felt very frustrated by the orthodox wing of the Dutch Reformed Church, which tried to minimize the Lutheran influence. |
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In the post-Reformation period the church divided into Calvinist, Lutheran, and Anabaptist camps, and the issue has gone unresolved until the present day. |
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The last named has been adopted by the Lutheran, Reformed tradition, and Methodist Churches that had previously developed a lectionary of their own. |
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How does Lutheran theology differ from Reformed-Calvinistic theology? |
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Anglican and Lutheran churches in Canada have approved a full communion agreement modeled on a similar accord drafted by their sister churches in the United States. |
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In the last decade, Lutheran and Anglican churches in Canada, the United States, and northern Europe entered into separate agreements of full communion. |
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He was a Lutheran pastor, missionary, and church executive for 25 years. |
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Unlike the Slovaks, who tended to adhere to the old-world Calvinist and Lutheran denominations, Czech Protestants tended to affiliate with American denominations. |
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Most of the Protestants belong to the Lutheran church in Murska Sobota. |
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In the Lutheran churches with which Anglicans are now in full communion, confirmation-laying on of hands-has historically been administered by presbyters. |
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Most are peaceful, but some Salafis have turned radical and take up arms, just as there were violent Lutheran peasant rebellions in early modern Europe. |
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He came from a Protestant family and, in order to learn German, he attended the local Lutheran church where sermons were preached in that language. |
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He explained to the defendant that he attended Episcopal and Lutheran services. |
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A similar struggle is under way in the Lutheran, Presbyterian and Methodist denominations. |
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While not an issue in the majority of Lutheran church bodies, some of them forbid membership in Freemasonry. |
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These organizations together include the great majority of Lutheran denominations around the globe. |
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The Lutheran World Federation supports the activities of Lutheran World Relief, a relief and development agency active in more than 50 countries. |
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The Porvoo Communion is a communion of episcopally led Lutheran and Anglican churches in Europe. |
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Today, millions belong to Lutheran churches, which are present on all populated continents. |
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This figure undercounts Lutherans worldwide as not all Lutheran churches belong to this organization. |
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Although Namibia is the only country outside Europe to have a Lutheran majority, there are sizable Lutheran bodies in other African countries. |
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The Porvoo Communion is a communion of 15 mainly northern European Anglican and Lutheran churches. |
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The churches involved are the Anglican churches of the British Isles and the Lutheran churches of the Northern European countries. |
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There is an ecumenical dialogue of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church with the Lutheran churches. |
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Other ecumenical links have been developed, not least with the Anglican and Lutheran Churches. |
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In a 1991 social policy statement, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America officially took a stand to oppose the death penalty. |
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However, in some ways, Behmenist belief deviated significantly from traditional Lutheran belief. |
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At the end of his life he endured a rare Swedish heresy inquiry by the Swedish Lutheran Consistory. |
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Denmark became part of a Lutheran heartland extending through Scandinavia and northern Germany. |
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For many others, however, he was a narrow-minded denominationalist and a squabbler within the Lutheran denomination. |
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In the Lutheran tradition, the technical term for understanding how God shows up in communion is consubstantiation. |
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Loehe appropriated David Hollaz, the last great dogmatician of Lutheran orthodoxy in the eighteenth century. |
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The Swedish, Finnish and Icelandic Lutheran congregations in Norway have about 27,500 members in total. |
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The members of the Royal family are required to be members of the Lutheran church. |
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Mary was courted by Duke Philip of Bavaria from late 1539, but Philip was Lutheran and his suit for her hand was unsuccessful. |
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The Virginia Synod is responsible for the congregations of the Lutheran Church. |
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The church is linked with a Lutheran church in Timmerlah in the Diocese of Braunschweig in Northern Germany. |
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Almost all children are baptized as Lutheran and more than 90 percent are subsequently confirmed. |
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The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Iceland is a member of the Lutheran World Federation and the World Council of Churches. |
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The Peasants' Revolt in Germany broke out from 1524 to 1526, and in 1531 the Lutheran Schmalkaldic League was formed. |
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In 1869, Finland was the first Nordic country to disestablish its Evangelical Lutheran church by introducing the Church Act. |
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The Lutheran World Federation, the largest global communion of Lutheran churches represents over 72 million people. |
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The next generation of Lutheran charismatics cluster around the Alliance of Renewal Churches. |
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Jensen's Touched by the Spirit published in 1974, played a major role of the Lutheran understanding to the charismatic movement. |
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Other contemporary denominations that contain high church wings include some Lutheran, Presbyterian, and Methodist churches. |
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He is commemorated in the Calendar of Saints of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on 2 March with his brother Charles. |
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Holbein's commissions in the early stages of his second English period included portraits of Lutheran merchants of the Hanseatic League. |
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Bartholomew in Giebichtenstein, who himself came from a long line of Lutheran pastors. |
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A firm Lutheran, he nevertheless strongly advocated the separation of church and state, famously denouncing the witch trials then prevalent. |
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Commentators have noted that the musical line for this third subject is based on Wachet auf, Philipp Nicolai's popular Lutheran chorale. |
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The Evangelical Lutheran Church shall be the Established Church of Denmark, and, as such, it shall be supported by the State. |
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There was also a growing party of reformers who were imbued with the Calvinistic, Lutheran and Zwinglian doctrines now current on the Continent. |
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North and South Dakota are the only states in which a plurality of the population is Lutheran. |
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At the 2008 General Conference, the United Methodist Church approved full communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. |
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Dahl and his sisters were raised in the Lutheran faith, and were baptised at the Norwegian Church, Cardiff, where their parents worshipped. |
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The country subsequently became officially Lutheran and Lutheranism has since remained the dominant religion. |
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The Evangelical Lutheran Church shall be the State Church in Iceland and, as such, it shall be supported and protected by the State. |
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It was formed in 2004 as a merger of the Dutch Reformed Church, the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and a smaller Lutheran Church. |
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A large majority of Finns are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and freedom of religion is guaranteed under the Finnish Constitution. |
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Sizable Lutheran missions arose for the first time during the 19th century. |
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The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland sees its share of the country's population declining by roughly one percent annually in recent years. |
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The main Lutheran and Orthodox churches are national churches of Finland with special roles such as in state ceremonies and schools. |
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Protestantism is largely a result of Dutch Reformed and Lutheran missionary efforts during the country's colonial period. |
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Although the Calvinist and Lutheran branch are the most common, a multitude of other denominations can be found elsewhere in Indonesia. |
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They kept to themselves, married their own, spoke German, attended Lutheran churches, and retained their own customs and foods. |
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There is one Lutheran parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of England, which is located in the Westwoodhill area. |
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Christ's human nature has been a point of contention between Reformed and Lutheran Christology. |
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When the four Lutheran church bodies there united in 1977 they chose the name North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church. |
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Among the wealthy traders of Antwerp, the Lutheran beliefs of the German Hanseatic traders found appeal, perhaps partly for economic reasons. |
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They started Lutheran churches and schools, greatly outnumbering other denominations in the area. |
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Lutheran churches often celebrate the Eucharist each Sunday, if not at every worship service. |
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The practice of weekly communion is increasingly the norm again in most Lutheran parishes throughout the world. |
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The Mass is also an important aspect of ordinations and confirmations in Lutheran churches. |
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The Scottish Episcopal Church, the Church of Scotland, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of England also have parishes dedicated to him. |
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Epistles are also read by an Elder or Bishop in the Lutheran Divine Service, between the gradual and the Gospel. |
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The towns of Alsace were the first to adopt German language as their official language, instead of Latin, during the Lutheran Reform. |
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When Finland became independent, it was overwhelmingly Lutheran Protestant. |
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Some Lutheran churches form an exception to this rule, as the Lutheran Book of Concord allows ordination to be received as a sacrament. |
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In some cases, like the Lutheran Church of Sweden, it is the denomination leader title. |
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This funded and directed Lutheran missionaries such as Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg in Tranquebar, India, and Hans Egede in Greenland. |
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Around 1685, Huguenot refugees found a safe haven in the Lutheran and Reformed states in Germany and Scandinavia. |
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At no time in his life did Mercator claim to be a Lutheran but there are many hints that he had sympathies in that direction. |
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Also he was a close friend and correspondent of Philip Melanchthon, one of the principal Lutheran reformers. |
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The term reflects the Lutheran belief that the liturgy was instituted by God. |
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In the Lutheran Church of Sweden, the Archbishop of Uppsala is considered primus inter pares. |
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In a collaboration with Paul Speratus, this and seven other hymns were published in the Achtliederbuch, the first Lutheran hymnal. |
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Luther's hymns were included in early Lutheran hymnals and spread the ideas of the Reformation. |
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Contemporary Lutheran scholarship, however, has found a different reality in Luther. |
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Calvin actively participated in the polemics that were exchanged between the Lutheran and Reformed branches of the Reformation movement. |
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Sometime after 1520, Zwingli's theological model began to evolve into an idiosyncratic form that was neither Erasmian nor Lutheran. |
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The controversy continued until 1528 when efforts to build bridges between the Lutheran and the Zwinglian views began. |
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It is not known what he thought of the musical practices in early Lutheran churches. |
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Evangelicals are also represented within the Anabaptist, Anglican and Lutheran traditions. |
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During the 17th century, Pietism emerged in Europe as a movement for the revival of piety and devotion within the Lutheran church. |
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For example, in contrast to Calvin, the Articles did not explicitly reject the Lutheran doctrine of consubstantiation. |
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Some Lutheran churches practice congregational polity or a form of presbyterian polity. |
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Otherwise, forms of polity are not mandated in the Lutheran churches, as it is not regarded as having doctrinal significance. |
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In the United States, the Lutheran churches tend to adopt a form of government more comparable to congregationalism. |
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Most Lutheran churches in Scandinavian countries are favorable to the traditional doctrine of apostolic succession. |
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By this document the full communion between the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Episcopal Church was established. |
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Other Lutheran Churches seem indifferent as a matter of understood doctrine regarding this particular issue of ecclesiastical governance. |
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It was considered reformatory in basic orientation, though it was not strongly Lutheran. |
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The Germans presented, as a basis of agreement, a number of Articles based on the Lutheran Confession of Augsburg. |
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Henry had felt uneasy about the appearance of the Lutheran doctors and their theology within his kingdom. |
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Representatives of the Orthodox, Anglican and Lutheran churches were invited. |
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The Lutheran World Federation, the largest communion of Lutheran churches, represents over 72 million people. |
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To distinguish the two evangelical groups, others began to refer to the two groups as Evangelical Lutheran and Evangelical Reformed. |
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In 1597, theologians in Wittenberg defined the title Lutheran as referring to the true church. |
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A similar legislated merger in Silesia prompted thousands to join the Old Lutheran movement. |
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Orthodox Lutheran theology holds that God made the world, including humanity, perfect, holy and sinless. |
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Lutheran hymnody is well known for its doctrinal, didactic, and musical richness. |
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Johann Sebastian Bach, a devout Lutheran, composed music for the Lutheran church. |
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In the 1970s, many Lutheran churches began holding contemporary worship services for the purpose of evangelistic outreach. |
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Today, few but some Lutheran congregations have contemporary worship as their sole form of worship. |
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After German missionaries were expelled in 1914, Lutherans in India became entirely autonomous, yet preserved their Lutheran character. |
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In Latin America, missions began to serve European immigrants of Lutheran background, both those who spoke German and those who no longer did. |
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The Lutheran Mission in New Guinea, though founded only in 1953, became the largest Lutheran mission in the world in only several decades. |
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As one of the largest nonprofits in the state, Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota serves one in nine North Dakotans each year. |
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Gary Hilfiger is pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Shippenville, Pennsylvania. |
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On Maundy Thursday, we use a special Communion Altar Parament handmade by parish members of the former Holy Trinity Polish Lutheran Church. |
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To speak of divinization, of becoming not just sanctified but deified, seems utterly alien to the Lutheran way. |
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The Edina Community Lutheran Church challenged the law in court on grounds that it infringed on free exercise of religion. |
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And, first-year teacher, Jamie Wade, has been awarded a 2001 Founders Grant by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. |
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For reasons to do with the predominantly Lutheran rather than Calvinist heritage, the participation of Protestants in the CDU has been small. |
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The issue arises not only with his endorsement of panentheist sacramentality, but even more sharply in his creative refashioning of a Lutheran theology of the cross. |
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Baptism, specifically infant baptism, in the Lutheran tradition. |
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Anne's husband was placed in an unfortunate position when Anne forced him to vote for the bill, even though, being a Lutheran, he was an occasional conformist himself. |
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In Gaborone, a Lutheran History Centre is open to the public. |
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Particularly important was the work of the Lutheran Scot Patrick Hamilton. |
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Finland has its Lutheran church established as a national church. |
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Since 1520, regular Lutheran services have been held in Copenhagen. |
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In 1948 the Lutheran church bodies within EKD founded their denominational umbrella, despite being named church, the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany. |
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Linton's second chapter traces the humanistically educated Lutheran poet's conception of poetry as something utile dulce, possessing both utility and sweetness. |
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Peter Mikelic, writer of the Concerning Lutherans column, is also a clergy member of the National Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada. |
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Our Lutheran concern for the ultimates has allowed us to neglect some of the penultimates, failing to stress the total implications of that ultimate Gospel. |
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The three hospitals include Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center in Lafayette, Exempla Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge and Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver. |
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She was a Hospice Coordinator at Exempla Lutheran Medical Center. |
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In the 19th century, Samuel Simon Schmucker attempted to lead the Evangelical Lutheran General Synod of the United States toward unification with other American Protestants. |
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Almost all maintain Sunday Schools, and some host or maintain Lutheran schools, at the preschool, elementary, middle, high school, folk high school, or university level. |
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Catechism is considered foundational in most Lutheran churches. |
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Most Lutheran churches are active musically with choirs, handbell choirs, children's choirs, and occasionally change ringing groups that ring bells in a bell tower. |
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Lutheran pastors, congregations, and church bodies in Germany and the Americas usually agree to teach in harmony with the entire Lutheran Confessions. |
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The doctrinal positions of Lutheran churches are not uniform because the Book of Concord does not hold the same position in all Lutheran churches. |
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Besides the three Ecumenical Creeds, which date to Roman times, the Book of Concord contains seven credal documents articulating Lutheran theology in the Reformation era. |
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A Lutheran must understand the language that scriptures are presented in, and should not be so preoccupied by error so as to prevent understanding. |
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In 1817, Frederick William III of Prussia ordered the Lutheran and Reformed churches in his territory to unite, forming the Evangelical Church of the Prussian Union. |
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Lutheran scholasticism developed gradually especially for the purpose of arguing with the Jesuits, and it was finally established by Johann Gerhard. |
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The Book of Concord replaced earlier, incomplete collections of doctrine, unifying all German Lutherans with identical doctrine and beginning the period of Lutheran Orthodoxy. |
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Although Frederick initially pledged to persecute Lutherans, he soon adopted a policy of protecting Lutheran preachers and reformers, the most significant being Hans Tausen. |
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Other Lutheran organizations include the International Lutheran Council and the Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference, as well as independent churches. |
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As mentioned, the Lutheran Church in Sweden and Finland are exceptions, claiming apostolic succession in a pattern somewhat like the Anglican churches. |
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Condemned by virtually every Lutheran denomination, these statements and their influence on antisemitism have contributed to his controversial status. |
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His name appeared on a list of 52 Lutheran heretics which included an architect, a sculptor, a former rector of the university, a monk, three priests and many others. |
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Given that the symbolism of the Orbis Imago map also reflected a Lutheran view point, Mercator was exposing himself to criticism by the hardline theologians of Leuven. |
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These included the Lutheran movement of Martin Luther, the Anabaptist movement of the Dutch reformer Menno Simons, and the Reformed teachings of John Calvin. |
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The Danish minority in Flensburg and the surrounding towns run their own schools, libraries and Lutheran churches from which the German majority is not excluded. |
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This aligns with Luther's preference and the Lutheran confessions. |
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The Church of England agreed, and that view continues today throughout the Lutheran Church, the worldwide Anglican Communion, and many other denominations. |
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Chicago is the headquarters of several religious denominations, including the Evangelical Covenant Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. |
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Lutheran churches were founded mostly in Germany, the Baltics and Scandinavia, while Reformed ones were founded in Switzerland, Hungary, France, the Netherlands and Scotland. |
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Donne is commemorated as a priest in the calendar of the Church of England and in the Calendar of Saints of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on 31 March. |
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In The Ambassadors, for example, details such as the Lutheran hymn book and the crucifix behind the curtain allude to the context of the French mission. |
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There is considerable charismatic activity among young Lutheran leaders in California centered around an annual gathering at Robinwood Church in Huntington Beach. |
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Larry Christenson, a Lutheran theologian based in San Pedro, California, did much in the 1960s and 1970s to interpret the charismatic movement for Lutherans. |
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Lutheran theology differs from Reformed theology in Christology, the purpose of God's Law, the divine grace, the concept of perseverance of the saints, and predestination. |
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In continental Europe, an Evangelical is either a Lutheran or a Calvinist. |
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The registration of births, deaths and marriages falls under this ministry of church affairs, and normally speaking the local Lutheran pastor is also the official registrar. |
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The Lutheran established church is a department of the state. |
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Although Loehe put the Lutheran confession above the others, he was nevertheless not a narrow-minded confessionalist but open to ecumenical developments. |
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Anglican interest in ecumenical dialogue can be traced back to the time of the Reformation and dialogues with both Orthodox and Lutheran churches in the 16th century. |
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State Department on behalf of Lutheran Pastor Mark Powell, who was denied his passport because he wore a clerical collar for his passport photograph. |
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At certain vital points Barth follows Luther not only, broadly speaking, against Calvin and the Reformed tradition, but also against the main lines of the Lutheran tradition. |
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She traces the broad spectrum of feminist typologies by beginning with Lutheran laywoman Rachel Conrad Wahlberg's books revealing Jesus' liberating attitude toward women. |
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The 17th century saw a period of strict Lutheran orthodoxy in Denmark, with harsh punishments visited on suspected followers of either Calvinism or Huldrych Zwingli. |
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He persuaded Henry that safety from political alliances that Rome might attempt to bring together lay in negotiations with the German Lutheran princes. |
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