Loehe and his coworkers in the Iowa Synod.(Johann Konrad Wilhelm Loehe)
From: Currents in Theology and Mission
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Date: 4/1/2006
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Author: Nessan, Craig L.
If the heartbeat of Loehe's theology is like that of the human heart, the diastolic moment is worship and the systolic moment is mission. In worship the people of God encounter Jesus Christ in Word and Sacrament, confessing their faith, and are taken up into the missio Dei as they are propelled into the world as agents of the gospel's mission. The life of Loehe testifies how from his earliest engagement in public ministry to the very end of his life his pulse beat with a passion both ...
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