RT Article
T1 The Lutheran Theology of Ordained Ministry in the Finnish Context
JF Ecclesiology
VO 16
IS 3
SP 361
OP 378
A1 Karttunen, Tomi 1969-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/173594680X
AB Martin Luther’s ordination formulary (1539) followed the early Church in its essential elements of the word, prayer, and the laying on of hands. Ordination was also strongly epicletic, including the invocation of the Holy Spirit. Although Luther did not understand ordination as a sacrament, he affirmed its effective, instrumental character. The Lutheran Reformation retained bishops, but the Augsburg Confession’s article concerning ministry did not mention episcopacy. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland’s ordination is by a bishop through the word, prayer, and laying on of hands. Ordination is not merely the public confirmation of vocation but an instrumental and sacramentally effective act, in which benediction confers the ministry. If the Church is Christ’s presence and the incarnate Word is the basic sacrament in Lutheran-Roman Catholic dialogue, is a differentiated consensus possible concerning the ministry of word and sacrament, and ordination within this context, as a means of grace indwelt by God?
K1 Communion of Porvoo Churches
K1 Lutheran–Roman Catholic dialogue
K1 Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
K1 Finnish Luther research
K1 Lutheran Theology
K1 Eucharist
K1 Ordination
K1 Christian Ministry
DO 10.1163/17455316-bja10001