Lutherans Today: American Lutheran Identity in the Twenty-First Century

A comprehensive look at the state of Lutheranism in America This volume examines one of the church's largest traditions, its place in the current landscape of American Christianity, and the directions in which it is heading in the new millennium. Lutherans Today presents new and original research on the many challenges Lutherans face in maintaining their identity in our twenty-first-century pluralistic society. The book's contributors explore how older divisions in Lutheranism based on ethnicity have given way to new divisions based on doctrine, ideology, politics, sexuality, and alternative approaches to ecumenism and worship. Each insight chapter chronicles various movements and groups impacting American Lutheranism and offers predictions concerning issues and aspects of church life that promise to reshape the communion in the years ahead.