The September 2015 issue of The Journal of Lutheran Mission focuses on the 2015 Reformation celebration. The papers presented in this issue were presented at the second International Conference on Confessional Leadership (ICCL) held in Wittenberg, Germany.
Table of Contents
- Sermon: A Song of Joy by Michael Kumm
- Luther’s Truths: Then and Now by Robert Kolb
- Reformation in New Lands and Tongues by Lawrence R. Rast, Jr
- The Message of the Reformation by Matthew C. Harrison
- Reformation Jubilees: Is There Cause for Celebration in 2017?
by Werner Klän - Decline in American Lutheranism: A Study by James Arne Nestigen
- The Lutheran Reformation’s Continuing Importance for the Church Today:
Celebrating the Reformation Rightly — Repentance — An African Perspective
by Joseph Ochola Omolo - The Reformation and Asia: Another Battleground of Confession
and Liturgy by Naomichi Masaki - Europe: Deflection from the Confessional Base and New Signs of
Its Vitality by Darius Petkunas - Reformation Truth in the Global Church: Latin America by Ricardo Rieth
- The Lutheran Reformation and the North American Inheritance by Gerhard Bode
- From Repentance to Rejoicing by Albert B. Collver III
- Enduring Hope: The West and Beyond by Roland Gustafasson
- Celebrating the Reformation Rightly: Remembrance, Repentance and Rejoicing
by Joseph Makala - Lutheran Witness in Turkey by Ville Typpö
- The Lutheran Church in Africa: Thirty Years of Growth by Mike Rodewald
- Book Review and Commentary: The Forgotten Ways — Reactivating the Missional
Church by Alan Hirsch and The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church by Alan Hirsch and Tim Catchim by Albert B. Collver III