Ernesto T. Schlieper – theology and congregational edification in the post war IECLB
The period of the Second World War decisively influenced the pastoral work of the congregations of the future Evangelical Church of Lutheran Confession in Brazil. Government measures impeded the continuation of the ethnocentric concept of congregational edification in practice at the time whose grea...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2010 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Escola Superior de Teologia (EST) |
| Repository: | Estudos Teológicos (Online) |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.est.edu.br/periodicos:article/86 |
| Online Access: | http://periodicos.est.edu.br/index.php/estudos_teologicos/article/view/86 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Theology Christology; Ecclesiology; Germanicism; Congregational Edification; History of the IECLB Teologia Cristologia; Eclesiologia; Germanismo; Edificação de comunidade; História da IECLB |
| Summary: | The period of the Second World War decisively influenced the pastoral work of the congregations of the future Evangelical Church of Lutheran Confession in Brazil. Government measures impeded the continuation of the ethnocentric concept of congregational edification in practice at the time whose greater goal was the propagation of the Germanic culture. The necessary reorientation of theology and ecclesiastical practice was led by Pastor Ernesto Theóphilo Schlieper. A student of Karl Barth, Schlieper postulated a Christ centered theology whose larger characteristic was the unshakeable trust in the power of the Word of God. Based on his Word, God wishes to edify his church. Thus his conception of congregational edification accentuates the priority of the preaching of the Gospel and the communication of the love and grace of God. It also equally defends the broadening of lay involvement in the church as well as the recovery of members distanced from community life through permanent evangelization. |
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