2015 Congress on the Lutheran Confessions

The Association of Confessional Lutherans

and

The Luther Academy

are in the process of planning the next

Congress on the Lutheran Confessions

ACL National Free Conference 26

Luther Academy Lecture Series 22

 

April 15-17, 2015

Ramada Mall of America

Bloomington (a suburb of Minneapolis), Minnesota

 


The overall theme for this congress is:


                    MARRIAGE, SEX, and GENDER

              in the LUTHERAN CHURCH TODAY

                  —IN LIGHT OF THE LUTHERAN CONFESSIONS—


                                    PROPOSED TOPICS FOR THE 2015

                CONGRESS ON THE LUTHERAN CONFESSIONS

1.     Same-sex Marriage: The Challenges of its U.S. Legalization for Pastors and Congregations

 2.     Homosexuals in the Congregation: Pastoral Ministry and Church Discipline from a Confessional Lutheran Perspective

 3.     Cohabiting Couples in the Congregation: Pastoral Ministry and Church Discipline from a Confessional Lutheran Perspective

 4.     Women’s Ordination and Congregational Roles Revisited: Can the Confessional Lutheran Synods Hold the Line?

5.     Have Lutherans Had a Unique View of Romance and/or Married Life, when Compared to Other Christian Traditions?

 6.     Do the “Orders of Creation” Pertain Only to the Vocation of Marriage, or Also to Other Vocations?

 7.     Canaan or Israel? The Old Testament’s Doctrine of Marriage in the Pentateuch and the Prophets

 8.     Luther: What is Marriage Really?

 9.     Divorce and Remarriage in the Parish and the Parsonage


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