#lutheran — Public Fediverse posts

last blogpost (for now) on the outbreak of #Lutheran #clergymen in my #familyhistory: an overview sorted by time of discovery https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/06/clerical-connections.html

#genealogy #reformation #churchHistory #germany

I've reached the bottom of the big barrel of #Lutheran #clergy in my #familyHistory in the Upper County of #Sponheim now with one very speculative case hailing from #trarbach (there is still one stray clergymen in the pipeline from a completely unrelated branch)

https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-metzlers-of-trarbach.html #germany #genealogy #churchHistory #reformation

Gossner—German Reformed and Lutheran minister—lists the components of divine service without apparent hierarchy. Suffer. Praise God. Preach the Gospel. Love the neighbor. Visit the widow and fatherless in their affliction. Keep unspotted from the world. It’s a complete list. One notes that contemporary spokesmen for historic conservative Christianity tend to cover some items more thoroughly than others, and develop considerable theological ingenuity around the remainder.

#reformed #lutheran

another #Lutheran clergyman popped up in my #familyHistory: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-valiant-vicars-deputy-and-successor.html #genealogy #churchhistory #reformation #germany #Kirn

Some newly acquired relatives who were quite famous in the early 18th century: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-arnoldi-clan.html #familyHistory #lutheran #churchHistory #theology #genealogy #reformation

#Lutheran #clergy in the centuries after the #reformation was a dense family network. Not only did the priests aspire that at least one son followed in their profession, they also networked to ensure their daughters married clergymen. In today's blog entry I've written up some of the resulting #matrilines in my #familyhistory.

https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-women-of-reformation.html

#history #churchHistory #protestantism

meet #Conon the contrarian https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/04/meet-conon-contrarian.html

#familyhistory #churchHistory #reformation #Lutheran #clergy #genealogy #Sponheim #Trarbach #Birkenfeld

Meet the Caesars: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/04/lives-of-caesars.html

#familyHistory #churchHistory #Reformation #lutheran #clergymen #clergy #Germany #Sponheim #Caesar

Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther was the first President of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod. This pamphlet speaks against communism and socialism, but also surprisingly, makes striking criticisms of greed. One such warning is that no Christian would have their money and heart as one.

Is this a common spiritual warning today?

Where is your heart?

#christian #anticommunism #classicalchristianeducation #yce #wordofgod #lutheran

Petrus Sacharie Nakskow, a Lutheran minster, lists five facts about Dives, the rich man who was uncharitable to Lazarus in Luke 16.

How can you depend on Christ, be sparing in your sumptuous feasts, be charitable to the poor, believe in Christ, and believe Moses and the Prophets?

#wordofgod #godssovereignty #newbirth #solagratia #lutheran #christian

Steven Ozmet's work on the Swiss Reformation helps to make a good deal of sense of why Calvin's Two Kingdoms theology has a weaker distinction than Luther's. (Calvin did learn the hard way the challenges of integrating church and governance, incidentally.)

#ChristianNationalism #TwoKingdoms #Polity #Reformed #Lutheran #Switzerland

New Instance, New #introduction:

I'm a #Lutheran and a #Marxist in the tradition of #Marx, #Lenin, and #Trotsky. I'm a member of #DSA. I hold conservative #theology with #Leninist #political views. Yes it's weird, but I make it work. I enjoy #history as well. Mastodon seems cool! #TwitterRefugee

Also into #organ #choir #cello #Bach