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Lutheran
/ ˈluːθərən /
noun
- a follower of Martin Luther or a member of a Lutheran Church
adjective
- of or relating to Luther or his doctrines, the most important being justification by faith alone, consubstantiation, and the authority of the Bible
- of or denoting any Protestant Church that follows Luther's doctrines
Derived Forms
- ˈLutheranism, noun
Other Words From
- Luther·an·ism Luther·ism noun
- non-Luther·an adjective noun
- pre-Luther·an adjective
Example Sentences
In 2010, they became one of seven openly out LGBTQ pastors accepted by the Evangelical Lutheran church after it allowed ordination of pastors in same-sex relationships.
After eighth grade, she transferred to Concordia Preparatory School, a Lutheran campus outside Baltimore.
Diane remarried in 2017, at age 81, to retired Lutheran minister and therapist John Hagedorn.
Reinke lost his pulpit and was drummed out of the conservative Missouri Synod of the Lutheran denomination.
A similar struggle is under way in the Lutheran, Presbyterian and Methodist denominations.
My job as a missionary in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is not to convert anyone to anything.
Keith had gone to Lutheran services last week and found a pleasant enough crowd there.
I wondered whether I should mumble that I had been raised by a German Lutheran.
Joan Henry Ursinus died; a Lutheran divine, eminent for his learning in sacred and profane history.
Primus Truber, a Lutheran minister, who gave the first edition of the Vandalie scriptures, died.
By the way, all you boys were christened in the Lutheran church, faith, were you not?
South of this is the Lutheran Theological Seminary, beautifully situated, in front of a shady grove of oaks.
But to his surprise the Lutheran princes who attended the diet refused to give way.
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