Episcopacy in the Lutheran Church?
Subtitle: Studies in the development and definition of the office of church leadership.
By: Edited by Ivar Asheim and Victor R. Gold. With an afterword by Jerald C. Brauer.
Contributors: Asheim, Ivar, ed.; Gold, Victor Roland, 1924- ed.
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Lutheran Church -- Government.
Notes: Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 215-251)
Translation of Kirchenpräsident oder Bischof?
Table of contents: title: Church government and the office of the bishop in the first three centuries, by L. Goppelt.; title: Church government and the office of bishop from the fourth century to the Reformation, by E. Beyreuther.; title: The development of the offices of leadership in the German Lutheran churches, 1517-1918, by B. Lohse.; title: The development of offices of leadership in the German Lutheran churches, 1918-present, by K. Schmidt-Clausen.; title: The post-Reformation developments of the episcopacy in Denmark, Norway, and Iceland, by S. Borregaard.; title: The post-Reformation developments of the episcopacy in Sweden, Finland, and the Baltic States, by M. Parvio.; title: The development of the offices of leadership in the Lutheran churches of Eastern Europe, by H.-M. Thimme.; title: Lutheran ecclesiastical government in the United States of America, by T. G. Tappert.; title: The derivative churches: Latin American, Africa, Asia, Australia, by A. Sovik.