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Late Gothic Revival and Romanesque Revival; also known as First Lutheran Church and First English Lutheran Church Saint James Lutheran Church and School (Lafayette, Indiana) Lafayette, Indiana: St. John's Lutheran Church (Ellettsville, Indiana) Ellettsville, Indiana: Richwood Evangelical Lutheran Church: 1868 built 2004 NRHP-listed
Some Lutheran churches permit dual-rostering. [251] Situations like this one where a church or church body belongs to multiple larger organizations that do not have ties are termed "triangular fellowship". Another variant is independent Lutheran churches, although for some independent churches the clergy are members of a larger denomination.
Lutheran denominations are Protestant church bodies that identify, to a greater or lesser extent, with the theology of Martin Luther and with the writings contained in the Book of Concord. Most Lutheran denominations are affiliated with one or more regional, national, or international associations, the largest of which—the Lutheran World ...
The encyclopedia of the Lutheran Church (3 vol 1965) vol 1 and 3 online free Brauer, James Leonard and Fred L. Precht, eds. Lutheran Worship: History and Practice (1993) Brug, John F., Fredrich II, Edward C., Schuetze, Armin W., WELS and Other Lutherans .
The Church maintains full communion relationships with other member churches of the Lutheran World Federation (which is a communion of 140 autonomous national/regional Lutheran church bodies in 78 countries around the world, representing nearly 66 million Christians) which was reorganized in 1948 from the earlier Lutheran World Convention of 1923.
Evangelical Lutheran Church can refer to many different Lutheran churches in the world. Among them are the following: U.S.
The American Association of Lutheran Churches (AALC, also known as The AALC or TAALC) is a Lutheran church body based in the United States. It was formed on November 7, 1987, as a continuation of the American Lutheran Church denomination, the majority of which merged with the Lutheran Church in America and the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches to form the Evangelical Lutheran Church ...
The North American Lutheran Church (NALC) is a Lutheran denomination with over 420 congregations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, counting more than 142,000 baptized members. The NALC believes all doctrines should and must be judged by the teaching of the Holy Scriptures (the Bible ), in keeping with the historic Lutheran Confessions .