Global Lutheranism in the Contemporary World Luther’s Realm

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This book explores Lutheranism and its various expressions throughout the world. This Protestant tradition has spread and developed far from its European and American heartlands to take on increasingly diverse forms. The global dispersion of Lutheranism and how it interacts with different cultures and worldviews has resulted in Lutheran pluralism in theology and church practices. Still there are distinctive Lutheran teachings that are present in most churches going by that name. However complex the concept of world Lutheranism may be this volume demonstrates that a wide-angle view can best be achieved through understanding national Lutheran expressions and the “lived religion” of these chur…