Pneuma is a journal on spiritual direction and formation in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada . That thought is the governing theme for this lecture.
Words create worlds.
There is great power in this surrounding. Today I am searching for the particular Lutheran surroundings in which we grew up. Lutheran piety cannot be defined as a set of religious practices. If we look at it from the viewpoint of the person who dwells in the complex of words and signs, then Lutheran piety is a perception or an attitude before it is a set of practices. One might say that we focus attention on the substructure of faith.