DICTIONARY of

LUTHER

and the Lutheran Traditions

Timothy J. Wengert

general editor

Mark A. Granquist, Mary Jane Haemig, Robert Kolb, Mark C. Mattes, and Jonathan Strom

associate editors

a division of Baker Publishing Group

Grand Rapids, Michigan

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Wengert, Timothy J., editor.

Title: Dictionary of Luther and the Lutheran traditions / Timothy J. Wengert, general editor ; Mark A. Granquist, Mary Jane Haemig, Robert Kolb, Mark C. Mattes, and Jonathan Strom, associate editors.

Description: Grand Rapids, MI : Baker Academic, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016058819 | ISBN 9780801049699 (cloth)

Subjects: LCSH: Lutheran Church—Dictionaries. | Luther, Martin, 1483–1546—Dictionaries.

Classification: LCC BX8007 .D53 2017 | DDC 284.103—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016058819

Cover Art: Philip Melanchthon, Martin Luther, Johannes Bugenhagen, and Caspar Cruciger Sr. translating the Bible in 1532. English lithograph by Willian Henry Simmons (1811–82) after a painting by Pierre Antoine Labouchere (1807–73). See Gerhard Schwinge, Melanchthon in der Druckgraphik (Ubstadt-Weiher: Verlag Regionalkultur, 2000), 108.

Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations labeled NIV are from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com

Contents

Contributors

Abbreviations

Introduction

Dictionary Entries

List of Entries

Name Index

Subject Index

Contributors

Albers, James W. ThD, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. Professor Emeritus of Theology, Valparaiso University. American Lutheranism Controversy; Fritschel, Sigmund and Gottfried; Lutheran Social Services; Sieveking, Amalie Wilhelmina

Albertsen, Andrés Roberto. PhD candidate, Luther Seminary, St. Paul. Argentina; Bolivia; Chile; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru

Albrecht, Ruth. DHabil, University of Hamburg. Professor, University of Hamburg. Petersen, Johanna Eleonora; Petersen, Johann Wilhelm

Alfsvåg, Knut. DTheol, Asian Graduate School of Theology, Kobe, Japan. Professor, School of Missions and Theology, Stavanger, Norway. God and Trinity

Anderson, Mary E. PhD, Luther Seminary, ...

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About Dictionary of Luther and the Lutheran Traditions

In the five hundred years since the publication of Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses, a rich set of traditions have grown up around that action and the subsequent events of the Reformation. This up-to-date dictionary by leading theologians and church historians covers Luther’s life and thought, key figures of his time, and the various traditions he continues to influence.

Prominent scholars of the history of Lutheran traditions have brought together experts in church history representing a variety of Christian perspectives to offer a major, cutting-edge reference work. Containing nearly six hundred articles, this dictionary provides a comprehensive overview of Luther’s life and work and the traditions emanating from the Wittenberg Reformation. It traces the history, theology, and practices of the global Lutheran movement, covering significant figures, events, theological writings and ideas, denominational subgroups, and congregational practices that have constituted the Lutheran tradition from the Reformation to the present day.

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