Priesthood, Pastors, Bishops Deborah Schiffrin and territories in the nineteenth

and territories in the nineteenth century

and any position that undermined it was heretical

charting the changes in the reception of Ives across the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century

and coordination

Practical in focus

Priesthood, Pastors, Bishops Deborah Schiffrin and territories in the nineteenthProtestant 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 text 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.