LUTHERAN CHURCH
(See also Evangelical Church in Germany; Luther, Martin)
Augsburg Confession: sh 317-319; g89 8/22 19
basic facts: g89 9/8 26
clergy:
admits failure to train flocks for ministerial work: w86 6/1 6
denominations: g89 9/8 26
Estonia:
reaction to Soviet pressure in contrast with Jehovah’s Witnesses: w05 7/15 32
Eucharist:
doctrine of consubstantiation: w08 4/1 27; sh 320
grape juice introduced: g87 10/8 29-30
experiences:
members accept truth: w87 9/15 22-23; g87 9/8 11
minister accompanies Witnesses: yb05 233
mother who wanted baby christened: yb02 58-59
pastor has Witness meeting place burned (Papua New Guinea): w10 3/1 17
teacher praises book Mankind’s Search for God: g00 9/8 32
Finland: yb90 190
female priests: yb90 190
Germany: g87 9/8 2-11
admission of weak protest during Nazi era: g89 11/8 21-22
decline: g87 9/8 3-4
divided over Nazism: g87 9/8 5-6
excerpts from sermons of theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer: g87 9/8 8-10
homosexual clergy: g94 6/22 28
letters and reply on Awake! series: g88 1/8 28
membership: g87 9/8 3-4
minister unfrocked for heresy: g87 9/8 6-7
parish bans rice throwing: g87 3/8 29
political activism: g87 9/8 6
political involvement (East Germany): g95 1/8 25
president of Evangelical Church (EKD) urges political involvement: w89 12/15 29
Stuttgart admission of guilt: g87 9/8 5-6
takes credit for ban on Witnesses in Nazi Germany: jv 660
theology: g87 9/8 6-10
immortality of the soul:
new catechism rejects: ct 168; g88 7/8 9-10
Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (with Catholic Church) (1999): w00 12/1 32
name Lutheran: jv 150
Netherlands: g88 2/8 15
Norway:
no longer state religion: g 5/13 3
Papua New Guinea:
pastor incites mob against Witnesses: yb11 122
Poland:
Ducal Prussia (1500’s): w07 8/15 20
Wisła: w04 10/15 25
Sweden:
Church-State relationship to end: g99 12/8 28; w97 4/1 30; g96 8/8 29
decline: w97 4/1 30; yb88 56-57
priests win overtime pay: w87 10/15 21
same-sex marriages in church: g 9/10 29
Witness district overseer speaks at seminars: yb88 56-57
United States:
homosexuality and masturbation approved: g94 3/22 28
merge creates Evangelical Lutheran Church: g86 8/8 30; g86 11/22 29