Lutheran Questions, Lutheran Answers: Exploring Christian Faith

by Martin E. Marty

Publisher:

Fortress Press

, 2007

Overview

Lutherans often have questions about Lutheran theology and beliefs that are basic to the Christian faith itself. Featuring a unique question-and-answer format, Lutheran Questions, Lutheran Answers is an accessible and concise treatment that provides the most frequently asked questions on important topics and brief but complete answers from a distinguished Lutheran historian and theologian.

Key Features

• Addresses major theological topics from a Lutheran perspective
• Utilizes a conivinient question-answer format
• Provides coverage of practical questions often asked by new Christians

Contents

• Lutheran History and Heritage
• The Bible
• God
• Jesus Christ
• Humanity
• The Holy Spirit
• Salvation
• Church
• Worship
• The Sacraments
• Christian Life
• The Reign of God
• Polity

Product Details

• Title: Lutheran Questions, Lutheran Answers: Exploring Christian Faith
• Author: Martin E. Marty
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Print Publication Date: 2007
• Logos Release Date: 2016
• Pages: 160
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Lutheran Church › Doctrines--Miscellanea; Lutheran Church › Miscellanea; Theology › Miscellanea
• ISBNs: 9780806653501, 0806653507
• Resource ID: LLS:FP01LUTH
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:03:11Z

About Martin E. Marty

Martin E. Marty is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Christianity at the University of Chicago, where he taught for 35 years. Since 1956 he has been on the masthead of the Christian Century and is editor of Context. He specializes in American religious history and headed the six-year “Fundamentalism Project” of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds the National Medal of Humanities and the medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was honored with the National Book Award for Righteous Empire in 1971. He is also an ordained Lutheran minister.

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