Christianity: Lutheranism FOUNDED: 1517 C.E. RELIGION AS A PERCENTAGE OF WORLD POPULATION: 1.0 percent Overview Lutheranism, named after the German preacher and professor Martin Luther (1483–1546), began with the publication of his Ninety-five...

Christianity Protestant Reformation Lutheran Orthodoxy Pietism...

Lutheran, Episcopal faiths become allies Festive service marks accord on clergy, 'full communion' New York Times Sunday, January 7, 2001 Washington -- After more than three decades of debate, the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America inaugurated...

Lutherans, Alterra teaming up to help Tanzanian farmers Churches would sell coffee and pay growers double what they make now By TOM HEINEN of the Journal Sentinel staff Saturday, September 23, 2000 Coffee-loving Lutherans in southeastern Wisconsin may have...

A Lutheran church in Chicago has ordained a lesbian who refuses to take a vow of celibacy, becoming the first to test a new resolution that gives bishops leeway in disciplining such violations.The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America requires vows of celibacy for gay but...

A national assembly of Evangelical Lutherans urged its bishops Saturday to refrain from defrocking gay and lesbian ministers who violate a celibacy rule, but rejected measures that would have permitted ordaining gays churchwide.Still, advocates for full inclusion of gays were encouraged, calling the resolution a...

Compares and cContrasts the origins of the break between Catholicism and Lutheranism, as well as their beliefs and church reformations after the split.

An essay that compares and contrasts the religions of Lutheranism, Calvinism, and Anabaptism.

This essay compares the three religious, during the time of the Protestant Reformation.