TY  - BOOK
AU  - Höfling, J.W.F
AU  - Holmen, Michael
TI  - How the Lutheran church is constituted
SN  - 9798375511610
U1  - 262 
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Bläsing: Erlangen
PB  - Michael Holmen (self-published)
KW  - Lutheran church
KW  - Government
KW  - Lutheran Church Constitution
N1  - This is a translation of Grundsätze evangelisch-lutherischer Kirchenverfassung, 3rd Edition (Bläsing: Erlangen, 1853); includes footnotes and bibliography
N2  - In this book J. W. F. Höfling describes how the Lutheran church should be constituted according to the principles given in the Lutheran Confessions and in Martin Luther's writings. Höfling sees the teachings of church and ministry in the Lutheran church as being very different from what the Roman Catholic church teaches. In the wake of the 1848 revolutions, he is also concerned about the loss of the sovereigns as the Summepiskopat of the churches in Germany. He offers his advice for how the churches should work towards structuring themselves in the wake of these new conditions.

This third edition of his work has extensive endnotes, which are often more like excurses, where he elaborates on what he has said in previous editions and responds to objections from opponents
ER  -