On the Ecclesiastical Ministry, Part One
Overview
This volume, the first part of Johann Gerhard’s commonplace On the Ecclesiastical Ministry deals especially with ministers of the church: their necessity, call, ordination, transfer, removal, and the like. With detailed and penetrating examination and analysis, Gerhard first proves that there is an ecclesiastical ministry instituted by God, an affirmation disputed by contemporary Anabaptists and Unitarians. Next, Gerhard demonstrates from Scripture the necessity of a specific call to the ministry, a call given by God through the church, before one may carry out the pastoral functions and duties. Besides the qualifications for holding this office in the church, Gerhard discusses the call of Martin Luther, the degree of Doctor of Theology, and ordination through prayer and the imposition of hands, among many other topics that are of importance to the church still today.
- Title: On the Ecclesiastical Ministry, Part One
- Author: Johann Gerhard
- Series: Theological Commonplaces
- Volume: 1
- Publisher: Concordia Publishing House
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Era: era:reformation
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Church › History of doctrines--17th century; Lutheran Church › Doctrines; Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint, 1542-1621
- ISBNs: 9780758625670, 0758625670, 0758625677
- Resource ID: LLS:ECCMINGERHARD01
- Resource Type: Systematic Theology
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