Journal of Lutheran Mission – September 2014

The second issue of the journal features papers from confessional Lutheran church leaders who presented at the International Lutheran Council’s fifth world seminary conference. Both the conference and this issue of the journal focus on the theme “Suffering, Persecution and Martyrdom as a Mark of the Church.”

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Table of Contents

Why Synod Missions? by Albert B. Collver III

Christian Martyrdom: Some Reflections by William Weinrich

Greetings to the Fifth International Lutheran Council Seminaries Conference by Hans-Jörg Voigt

Sub Cruce Revelata: The Cross as a Mark of the Church — An Exegetical
Perspective by Roberto E. Bustamante

Suffering, Persecution and Martyrdom as a Mark of the Church: How Has
This Affected Theological Education? A Practical Perspective from Africa
by Joseph Omolo

A Confessional, Dogmatic View of Martyrdom
and the Cross by Lawrence R. Rast, Jr

The Holy Cross: Suffering, Persecution and Martyrdom — a Mark of the
Church in the Modern Age by Albert B. Collver III

Suffering, Persecution and Martyrdom as a Mark of the Church in
Europe by Darius Petkunas

Book Review: Improving Preaching by Listening to Listeners: Sunday Service
Preaching in the Malagasy Lutheran Church by Robert H. Bennett

Book Review: Joining Jesus on His Mission How to Be an
Everyday Missionary by Geoffrey L. Robinson

Book Review: Protestant Missionaries to the Middle East: Ambassadors
of Christ or Culture? by Albert B. Collver III