Journal of Lutheran Mission – September 2015

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.

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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