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Social Ministry in the Lutheran Tradition

  • ISBN-13: 9780800621292
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: FORTRESS PRESS
  • Edited by Foster R. McCurley
  • Price: AUD $47.99
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  • Local release date: 15/06/2008
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 190 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Protestantism & Protestant Churches [HRCC9]
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This indispensable volume offers a fundamental rationaleor "case" for Lutheran engagement in social services byhighlighting the biblical warrants, panoramic historicalexpressions, and deep theological under-pinnings of suchChristian corporate social engagement. Social Ministry in the Lutheran Tradition gathers the insights ofhistorians, theologians, and organizational leaders to addressthis task.
Foster R. McCurley is Professor Emeritus of Old Testament and Hebrew and former Dean of the Faculty at The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. He is the author of Wrestling with the Word: Christian Preaching from the Hebrew Bible (1996) and Witness of the Word: A Biblical Theology of the Gospel (with John Reumann; Fortress Press, 1986), and editor of the six-volume Proclamation Commentaries - The Old Testament Witnesses for Preaching (Fortress Press, 1978-79).
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