... of prayer in his personal life and his ministry. Guides for students included prayer as a key element in studying theology. Pastoral manuals and church orders not only reminded the pastor of proper theology, they also provided practical advice for prayer. These materials reflected Luther’s emphases...

...Economics of Faith. Esther Chung-Kim, Oxford University Press (2021). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197537732.003.0003 Johannes Bugenhagen’s church orders revealed the lasting imprint of religious values on the poverty policies of many German cities. Originally...

...This chapter shows how the concrete or pragmatic authority of bishops within the church has its roots in an appreciation of a bishop's spiritual abilities. It presents an overview of the early church orders. It also explores the normative texts that were generated within the church to describe...

...Opens with suffering and Lutheran spirituality in the Baltic region in the Great Northern War; analyses an unsettled extended family of Reformation church orders and rites (some 351: see Ch.r 8), which provide the arbitrary, complex, and controversial institutional framework in this book, and ends...

... relief from the late medieval period but also finds that the effort to restructure poor relief forged the way for the evangelical (Protestant) Reformation to take root in select cities. City councils adopted church orders as the policy regulating all city churches and the reorganization of poor relief...

... church orders. Even as the teachings themselves are highly consistent with those of his more famous colleagues Luther and Melanchthon, Bugenhagen’s unique pastoral and theological voice comes through in his publications. Bugenhagen’s enduring work as an exegete and an organizer testifies to his...