Mary Jane Haemig
Biographic Data
| ID | 1146995 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Jane Haemig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Haemig |
| SIGNATURE | HAEMIG M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Luther Seminary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Teaching Prayer with Prayerbooks
While Luther had firmly rejected medieval prayerbooks, he and his followers did not reject the prayerbook genre completely. Luther’s Little Prayer Book (1522) taught the reasons for prayer, offered explanations of the Lord’s Prayer, and provided other prayer texts. Luther’s followers produced prayerbooks which included explicit and sometimes lengthy instructions for prayer and sought to model what proper prayer was. Prayerbooks often offered pray…
Abbreviations
Teaching Prayer with Sermons
Luther and his followers used sermons to teach prayer. Sermons in postils, printed collections of sermons for the church year, evidence how frequently prayer was mentioned. In the late medieval era, it was traditional on Rogation Sunday and the following Rogation days to preach on prayer. Lutheran reformers followed this tradition but their sermons reflected Luther’s theology and rejected certain Roman beliefs and practices. The church year offer…
Teaching Prayer with Catechisms and Catechesis
Luther and his followers used catechesis and catechisms to teach and encourage prayer. While Luther’s catechisms were prominent, they were not the only catechisms in use among lutherans. Catechisms, both those before and those after Luther’s Small Catechism (1529) taught the Lord’s Prayer as the central or paradigmatic prayer. The lutheran reformers stressed understanding the petitions of the Lord’s Prayer and provided materials offering both sho…
Conclusion
Luther and his followers engaged in a massive and continuing effort, stretching across time, geography, literary forms, settings, and occasions, to teach prayer. Rejecting many medieval beliefs and practices, they advocated prayer that depended on God’s command to pray and promise to hear. Seeing prayer as flowing from faith, they promoted thoughtful understanding rather than repetition of words. In recent decades scholars have examined how Luthe…
Teaching Prayer in Worship
Worshippers absorbed lessons through the presence of prayer in worship services. Worship taught prayer texts and practices, as well as their underlying theology, explicitly in its liturgies and implicitly by what was included and what was omitted. Introits, collects, and the Lord’s Prayer were all examples of prayer. Lutheran liturgies omitted prayers to the saints and Mary and addressed prayers to God. Art and other interior features of church b…
Teaching Prayer with the Literature of Consolation
Literature designed to aid people in confronting sickness, death, plague, childbirth, and war contained and thereby taught prayer. Continuing but changing the medieval tradition of ars moriendi, lutheran reformers saw prayer as an integral part of living in the midst of crises, hurts, and griefs. They specifically addressed illness, death, plague, childbirth, and war. They urged those suffering, and those standing by those suffering, to call upon…
Teaching Prayer to and with Pastors
The lutheran reformers produced literature designed to shape the lutheran pastor into a competent practitioner and teacher of prayer. From his days as a student and through his days in ministry, this literature sought to teach him prayer and impress upon him the importance of prayer in his personal life and his ministry. Guides for students included prayer as a key element in studying theology. Pastoral manuals and church orders not only reminded…
Martin Luther and the Reform of Prayer
Martin Luther, while retaining some of the texts and structures related to medieval prayer, rejected many of the beliefs and practices he had inherited. Luther saw prayer not as a good work, helpful toward earning salvation, but rather as a good work that came in free response to God’s work that set the human in right relationship with God. Luther’s teaching on prayer reflected his theology. God’s own words, God’s command to pray, and God’s promi…
Teaching Prayer with the Psalms
Martin Luther and his followers used the biblical psalms to teach prayer and encourage their use. They thought the psalms provided words to express a wide variety of human needs. Luther’s translation of and introduction to the psalms as well as his psalm Summaries were some of the most widely published works using the psalms to teach prayer. Lutheran reformers used varied genres, including summaries, paraphrases, rearrangements, verse, rhyme, and…
The Reformation of Prayer among Sixteenth-Century Lutherans
Martin Luther and his followers engaged in a thorough reform of prayer beliefs and practices, a reform rooted in Luther’s theological insights. Rejecting medieval beliefs that saw prayer as a good work, Luther and his followers saw prayer as a human response to God’s command to pray and promise to hear. It was a good work, done freely, not to earn salvation but rather to converse with God. Luther and his followers taught prayer in many different …
Luther's Works 58
Heinrich Heshusius and Confessional Polemic in Early Lutheran Orthodoxy
The Primacy of the Postils
Journal Article The Primacy of the Postils: Catholics, Protestants, and the Dissemination of Ideas in Early Modern Germany Get access The Primacy of the Postils: Catholics, Protestants, and the Dissemination of Ideas in Early Modern Germany. By John Frymire. Leiden: Brill. 2010. 641 pp. £132.00 (hardback). Mary Jane Haemig Mary Jane Haemig Luther Seminary, St Paul, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Martin Luther's Understanding of God's Two Kingdoms
Martin Luther
Women and the Reformation – By Kirsi Stjerna
Luther on Women
Jehoshaphat and His Prayer among Sixteenth-Century Lutherans
Martin Luther, writing in his Betbuchlein in 1522, declared:Among the many harmful books and doctrines which are misleading and deceiving Christians and give rise to countless false beliefs, I regard the personal prayer books as by no means the least objectionable. They drub into the minds of simple people such a wretched counting up of sins and going to confession, such un-Christian tomfoolery about prayers to God and his saints! Moreover, these…
Ad fontes Lutheri
The December Wars
In this age of political correctness, Christmas has become our most controversial holiday. Each year brings new court battles over nativity scenes on public property and heated school board meetings in the public schools. Author Albert J Menendez traces this dispute as far back as the fourth century, when Catholic orthodoxy turned Christmas into a major propaganda tool as well as a religious observance. Over the centuries there has been a surpris…
Elisabeth Cruciger (1500?-1535)
An Essay on the Development of Luther's Thought on Justice, Law, and Society
Johann Gerhard (1582-1637)
Hearing Many Voices
The ecumenical movement is by definition a complex, multifaceted project that encompasses a diverse agenda and resists any singular definition. By examining the various aspects of ecumenical history, this book charts the search for diversity and dialogue in world Christianity. Contents: A DIALOGICAL AFFAIR. Ecumenical Unity, Ecumenical Diversity; Understanding Dialogue; The Multiplicity of Meaning; Focus on the WCC. COMMUNITY AND DIVERSITY IN FAI…
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Hearing Many Voices
The ecumenical movement is by definition a complex, multifaceted project that encompasses a diverse agenda and resists any singular definition. By examining the various aspects of ecumenical history, this book charts the search for diversity and dialogue in world Christianity. Contents: A DIALOGICAL AFFAIR. Ecumenical Unity, Ecumenical Diversity; Understanding Dialogue; The Multiplicity of Meaning; Focus on the WCC. COMMUNITY AND DIVERSITY IN FAI…
Luther's Theological Testament
This study fills a gap in the research of the Lutheran Confessions. It shows how Luther's theological testament is part of a confessional movement that wants to be evangelical and catholic.--Eric W. Gritsch, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Johann Gerhard (1582-1637)
An Essay on the Development of Luther's Thought on Justice, Law, and Society
The December Wars
In this age of political correctness, Christmas has become our most controversial holiday. Each year brings new court battles over nativity scenes on public property and heated school board meetings in the public schools. Author Albert J Menendez traces this dispute as far back as the fourth century, when Catholic orthodoxy turned Christmas into a major propaganda tool as well as a religious observance. Over the centuries there has been a surpris…
Elisabeth Cruciger (1500?-1535)
Ad fontes Lutheri
Jehoshaphat and His Prayer among Sixteenth-Century Lutherans
Martin Luther, writing in his Betbuchlein in 1522, declared:Among the many harmful books and doctrines which are misleading and deceiving Christians and give rise to countless false beliefs, I regard the personal prayer books as by no means the least objectionable. They drub into the minds of simple people such a wretched counting up of sins and going to confession, such un-Christian tomfoolery about prayers to God and his saints! Moreover, these…
Luther on Women
Women and the Reformation – By Kirsi Stjerna
Martin Luther
Martin Luther's Understanding of God's Two Kingdoms
Heinrich Heshusius and Confessional Polemic in Early Lutheran Orthodoxy
The Primacy of the Postils
Journal Article The Primacy of the Postils: Catholics, Protestants, and the Dissemination of Ideas in Early Modern Germany Get access The Primacy of the Postils: Catholics, Protestants, and the Dissemination of Ideas in Early Modern Germany. By John Frymire. Leiden: Brill. 2010. 641 pp. £132.00 (hardback). Mary Jane Haemig Mary Jane Haemig Luther Seminary, St Paul, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Luther's Works 58
Teaching Prayer with Prayerbooks
While Luther had firmly rejected medieval prayerbooks, he and his followers did not reject the prayerbook genre completely. Luther’s Little Prayer Book (1522) taught the reasons for prayer, offered explanations of the Lord’s Prayer, and provided other prayer texts. Luther’s followers produced prayerbooks which included explicit and sometimes lengthy instructions for prayer and sought to model what proper prayer was. Prayerbooks often offered pray…
Abbreviations
Teaching Prayer with Sermons
Luther and his followers used sermons to teach prayer. Sermons in postils, printed collections of sermons for the church year, evidence how frequently prayer was mentioned. In the late medieval era, it was traditional on Rogation Sunday and the following Rogation days to preach on prayer. Lutheran reformers followed this tradition but their sermons reflected Luther’s theology and rejected certain Roman beliefs and practices. The church year offer…
Teaching Prayer with Catechisms and Catechesis
Luther and his followers used catechesis and catechisms to teach and encourage prayer. While Luther’s catechisms were prominent, they were not the only catechisms in use among lutherans. Catechisms, both those before and those after Luther’s Small Catechism (1529) taught the Lord’s Prayer as the central or paradigmatic prayer. The lutheran reformers stressed understanding the petitions of the Lord’s Prayer and provided materials offering both sho…
Conclusion
Luther and his followers engaged in a massive and continuing effort, stretching across time, geography, literary forms, settings, and occasions, to teach prayer. Rejecting many medieval beliefs and practices, they advocated prayer that depended on God’s command to pray and promise to hear. Seeing prayer as flowing from faith, they promoted thoughtful understanding rather than repetition of words. In recent decades scholars have examined how Luthe…
Teaching Prayer in Worship
Worshippers absorbed lessons through the presence of prayer in worship services. Worship taught prayer texts and practices, as well as their underlying theology, explicitly in its liturgies and implicitly by what was included and what was omitted. Introits, collects, and the Lord’s Prayer were all examples of prayer. Lutheran liturgies omitted prayers to the saints and Mary and addressed prayers to God. Art and other interior features of church b…
Teaching Prayer with the Literature of Consolation
Literature designed to aid people in confronting sickness, death, plague, childbirth, and war contained and thereby taught prayer. Continuing but changing the medieval tradition of ars moriendi, lutheran reformers saw prayer as an integral part of living in the midst of crises, hurts, and griefs. They specifically addressed illness, death, plague, childbirth, and war. They urged those suffering, and those standing by those suffering, to call upon…
Teaching Prayer to and with Pastors
The lutheran reformers produced literature designed to shape the lutheran pastor into a competent practitioner and teacher of prayer. From his days as a student and through his days in ministry, this literature sought to teach him prayer and impress upon him the importance of prayer in his personal life and his ministry. Guides for students included prayer as a key element in studying theology. Pastoral manuals and church orders not only reminded…
Martin Luther and the Reform of Prayer
Martin Luther, while retaining some of the texts and structures related to medieval prayer, rejected many of the beliefs and practices he had inherited. Luther saw prayer not as a good work, helpful toward earning salvation, but rather as a good work that came in free response to God’s work that set the human in right relationship with God. Luther’s teaching on prayer reflected his theology. God’s own words, God’s command to pray, and God’s promi…
Teaching Prayer with the Psalms
Martin Luther and his followers used the biblical psalms to teach prayer and encourage their use. They thought the psalms provided words to express a wide variety of human needs. Luther’s translation of and introduction to the psalms as well as his psalm Summaries were some of the most widely published works using the psalms to teach prayer. Lutheran reformers used varied genres, including summaries, paraphrases, rearrangements, verse, rhyme, and…
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