Documents from various sources
- ACE
Bibliography of Luther & Lutheranism
- Barmen Declaration
(1934)
"The Barmen Declaration, 1934, was a call to resistance against
the theological claims of the Nazi state. Almost immediately after Hitler's seizure of
power in 1933, Protestant Christians faced pressure to "aryanize" the Church,
expel Jewish Christians from the ordained ministry and adopt the Nazi "Führer
Principle" as the organizing principle of church government. In general, the churches
succumbed to these pressures, and some Christians embraced them willingly. The pro-Nazi
"German Christian" movement became a force in the church. They glorified Adolf
Hitler as a "German prophet" and preached that racial consciousness was a source
of revelation alongside the Bible. But many Christians in Germany—including Lutheran
and Reformed, liberal and neo-orthodox—opposed the encroachment of Nazi ideology on
the Church's proclamation. At Barmen, this emerging "Confessing Church" adopted
a declaration drafted by Reformed theologian Karl Barth and Lutheran theologian Hans
Asmussen, which expressly repudiated the claim that other powers apart from Christ could
be sources of God's revelation. Not all Christians courageously resisted the regime, but
many who did—like the Protestant pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Roman Catholic
priest Bernhard Lichtenberg—were arrested and executed in concentration camps."
[from the website of the United Church of
Christ]
- Bavarian
Church Against Antisemitism in Doctrine and Practice (Evangelical Lutheran Church
in Bavaria, ELCB)
- The
British-Nordic-Baltic Porvoo Declaration
- Communiqué
of the Anglican-Lutheran International Working Group (February 16, 2000)
- The
Concordat of Agreement
- Declaration
of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to the Jewish Community
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer homepage
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works
- Ecumenism: ELCA
Proposals for 1997
- Ecumenism
is not optional but essential to the Church response to Dominus
Iesus by the Rev. Ismael Noko, General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation
(September 8, 2000)
- Guidelines
for Lutheran-Jewish Relations (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)
- Heidelberg Catechism, 1563
- The implications of
justification in the world today Statement by a consultation of Lutheran
theologians convened by the Lutheran World Federation, October 31, 1998.
- Luther's Small Catechism, 1529
- Luther's theology as an antidote
to American moralism and its influence on liberation theology Comments made
in a discussion on the Lutheran World Federation website in response to an invitation to
reflect on the relevance of the doctrine of justification today.
- The Lutheran - 1996 Themes
- Lutheran
Resource Page: Resources by Category
- Lutheran
Resources
- Lutheran Resources
(ELCA website)
- The
Norwegian Methodist-Lutheran agreement
- Project
Wittenberg Homepage
- Selected
Works of Martin Luther
Lutheran
Church-Missouri Synod documents
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