Background
Wengert, Timothy was born on October 1, 1950 in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States. Son of Norman Irving and Janet (Mueller) Wengert.
(What is "church"? What makes the church one? While these ...)
What is "church"? What makes the church one? While these questions may seem innocuous, church has become conflicted territory recently, with internal factions, external pressures, and ecumenical turmoil all calling for a more positive, studier, more resilient notion of Christian community. Wengert approaches the questions as a Reformation historian. He shows how the New Testament notion of "marks" of the church was taken up by Luther and developed by Melanchthon not as descriptive tag but as a criterion for authenticity in Christian community. Lathrop, the liturgical theologian, shows concretely how those marks can stamp the worship life of a congregation as well as the evaluative work of congregations with their pastors, bishops, superintendents, and conference ministers. Only with a sturdy sense of their own identity--as a holy people, grounded in common practices and commitments--can Christian assemblies truly engage and even transform today's cultural context. This volume originated as six lectures jointly presented to the Academy of Bishops of the ELCA in 2001.
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(This book combines a rich description of the (Lutheran) "...)
This book combines a rich description of the (Lutheran) "Formula of Concord" (1577) with experiences in today's Lutheran parishes to demonstrate how confessional texts may still come to life in modern Christian congregations. Timothy Wengert takes the "Formula of Concord", traditionally used as ammunition in doctrinal disagreements, back to its historical home, the local congregation, giving pastors, students, and theologians a glimpse into the original debates over each article. The most up-to-date English commentary on the "Formula of Concord", "A Formula for Parish Practice" provides helpful, concise descriptions of key theological debates and a unique weaving of historical and textual commentary with modern Lutheran experience. Covering the entire "Formula of Concord", the book includes discussion questions at the end of each chapter.
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Today's Protestant churches are often rent by disagreement and dissent over the office of bishop, the roles of the ordained, and myriad forms of lay ministry. Timothy Wengert's new work overturns many of the "pious myths" about these matters to probe the core conviction of Martin Luther, Philip Melanchthon, and the early Reform about public ministry. Theirs was an original vision of Christian ministry, revolutionary for its time. It jettisoned the lay/clerical distinction and brought "new authority and purpose to the public office in Christ's church," says Wengert. After resurrecting that initial context, Wengert traces the diminution and distortion of this foundational vision through the centuries. He shows that many of the modern fights over public ministry are simply wrong-headed, and he then draws striking and helpful conclusions about the rich assets and forms of service in the single public office of ministry today.
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(Centripetal Worship examines how worship is, and should b...)
Centripetal Worship examines how worship is, and should be, at the center of the assembly. Contributors look at the historical and contemporary factors that influence how and why we worship the way we do. The contributors from Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia include: Timothy J. Wengert, Mark Mummert, Dirk Lange, and Melinda Quivik along with Russell Mitman, Pennsylvania Southeast Conference of the United Church of Christ.
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(This book argues the provocative thesis that Philip Melan...)
This book argues the provocative thesis that Philip Melanchthon, so often pictured as hopelessly caught in the middle between Erasmus and Luther, and more "Erasmian" than Lutheran in his thought, was, at least in his theological methods and views, not Erasmian at all, but in fact sharply opposed to Erasmus. Author Timothy J. Wengert builds his case largely on the basis of Melanchthon's Scholia on the Epistle of Paul to the Colossians, employing the critically important but seldom used second edition of 1528, which was produced in the aftermath of Luther and Erasmus's famous debate over the free will. Wengert also draws on a wide range of other contemporary sources, many of them well known but, as he argues, frequently misunderstood. Throughout this analysis he subjects a wide range of the secondary literature to sharp critical review. From the vantage point of a relatively narrow exegetical dispute, the book deals with a number of important topics: the complicated and elusive relationships between humanism and the Reformation, Erasmus and Luther, Erasmus and Melanchthon, and Melanchthon and Luther; the theological issues of proper biblical interpretation, of free will, and of divine and human righteousness; and the hotly contested social problem of political order. Human Freedom, Christian Righteousness will be of interest not only to students and scholars of Reformation theology, but to a broader audience of those concerned with Renaissance and Reformation history and literature.
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clergyman church history educator
Wengert, Timothy was born on October 1, 1950 in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States. Son of Norman Irving and Janet (Mueller) Wengert.
Bachelor of Arts Michigan, 1972. Master of Arts, University Michigan, 1973. Master of Divinity, Luther Seminary, St. Paul, 1977.
Doctor of Philosophy, Duke University, 1984. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Carthage College, 2010.
Assistant pastor, Lutheran Church of the Master, Edina, Minnesota, 1977-1978; pastor, Cross Lutheran Church, Roberts, Wisconsin, 1983-1989; professor, Lutheran Theological Seminary Philadelphia, since 1989.
(This book argues the provocative thesis that Philip Melan...)
(What is "church"? What makes the church one? While these ...)
(This book combines a rich description of the (Lutheran) "...)
(Today's Protestant churches are often rent by disagreemen...)
(Centripetal Worship examines how worship is, and should b...)
Member Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Society for Reformation Research, Am.Soc. for Church History.
Married Barbara Ann Farlow, November 17, 1973 (deceased May 2001). Children: Emily, David. Married Ingrid Anne Fath, April 16, 2005.