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In 2003, the Augsburg Lutheran District reorganized as a separate denomination and adopted its present name, the Augsburg Lutheran Churches. [ 3 ] The Augsburg Lutheran Churches works together with the Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ , and some of its congregations have joint membership in both bodies.
The ELCA accepts the unaltered Augsburg Confession (not the variata) as a true witness to the Gospel. The ELCA is less conservative than the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), the second and third largest Lutheran bodies in the United States, respectively. [19]
Augsburg Fortress Publishers is the official publishing house of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Through various imprints, Augsburg Fortress Publishers publishes worship, music, curricular, and devotional resources and distinctive books for congregations, higher-education learning and scholars, children, and adult general readers.
Evangelical Lutheran Worship (ELW) is the current primary liturgical and worship guidebook and hymnal for use in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC). It was first published in October 2006 by the ELCA's publishing house, Augsburg Fortress (now known as 1517 Media).
Augsburg University: Minneapolis, Minnesota: 1869: ELCA: ... ELCA In 2010 the college was sold to a subsidiary of Columbia Southern University and is no longer ...
The calendars of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in their present forms are listed below, as found in the 2006 Lutheran Service Book of the LCMS, and the 2006 Evangelical Lutheran Worship of the ELCA. In addition to these, some historic observances not currently found on the ...
Augsburg Lutheran Churches (ALC) Canadian Association of Lutheran Congregations (CALC) Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America (CLBA) Church of the Lutheran Confession (CLC) Concordia Lutheran Conference (CLC) Conservative Lutheran Association (CLA) Eielsen Synod; Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church (EELK) Evangelical Lutheran Church ...
The ELCA as a whole does not use the title "confessional" to describe itself, but it and the other member churches of the Lutheran World Federation do ascribe to the unaltered Augsburg Confession and the other confessional documents in the Book of Concord as true interpretations of the Christian faith. [13]