Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 3

Overview
For over 30 years, Sasse corresponded with Lutheran pastors in Australia, the United States, and around the world on topics as varied as the nature of the Sacrament or of the Church, mission, church history, the nature of Scripture, and ecumenical issues (especially unification efforts in the Lutheran Church and world Christianity). Many of the letters are available here for the first time in English.
 
“The following lines and the letter, which, God willing, are to follow this one are addressed to Lutheran pastors . . . whose hearts bleed whenever they see the condition in which the Lutheran Church of our day and of our world finds itself.”
—Hermann Sasse
 

Endorsement
"In this remarkable collection of letters . . . we meet . . . a historian with a breadth of learning, a theologian of thorough biblical knowledge, a churchman of wisdom, and a pastor of caring words."
—Ronald R. Feuerhahn

 
About the Author
Hermann Sasse (1895–1976) was trained at the University of Berlin under such well-known theologians as Harnack and Deissmann. During a study year in the United States, Sasse discovered the writings of Wilhelm Löhe and returned to Europe a convinced confessional Lutheran. In this faith he persisted, despite great difficulties, as a professor of theology at the University of Erlangen and at Immanuel Seminary (later renamed Luther Seminary), North Adelaide, Australia.