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WikiProject Lutheranism

The Luther Rose, a personal seal designed by Martin Luther, has been used since the 16th Century to represent Lutherans and Lutheranism.
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Some Wikipedians have gathered together to form a concerted effort to improve the quality and organization of information on Wikipedia relating to Lutheranism. This page - and its related subpages - contain some suggestions for how to go about this task. If you are interested in helping but don't know where to begin, you can look at the "To-do list" below or the Project talk page. As always, please sign up as a participant so that we know who is helping.

Contents 1 Background 1.1 Scope 2 Participants 3 Helping out 3.1 Current To-Do List: 3.2 Pictures to be added 3.3 Translations 3.4 Article suggestions 3.4.1 Theology 3.4.1.1 Writings of Martin Luther 3.4.2 People 3.4.2.1 Age of Lutheran Orthodoxy 3.4.2.2 19th Century 3.4.2.3 20th Century 3.4.2.4 Hymnwriters 3.4.3 Liturgy 3.4.4 Religious Communities 3.4.5 Lutheran Church Bodies 3.4.6 Some Online Sources for Articles 4 Assessment 5 Related Categories 6 Recognized content 6.1 Featured articles 6.2 Good articles 6.3 Did you knows (DYKs) 7 Formerly Recognized Content 7.1 Featured articles 7.2 Good articles 8 New articles 9 Templates 9.1 Barnstar 9.2 Other Templates

[edit] Background

[edit] Scope

This goal of this WikiProject is to improve quality of the information available on Wikipedia about Lutheranism. This includes articles on famous Lutherans, Lutheran churches, and Lutheran theology. It is a further goal of this Wikiproject to help to make this information as well-organized and accessible as possible. Most articles covered under the scope of this Project can be found in Category:Lutheranism and related sub-categories (see the category tree below).

[edit] Participants

Join the fun -- add yourself as a participant in WikiProject Lutheranism. Please sign using this format: {{user2|UserName}} for plain old users, {{admin|UserName}} for admins, and {{formeradmin|UserName}} for former admins. Thank you.

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[edit] Helping out

[edit] Current To-Do List:

1. Improving articles - Participate in the current collaboration, or pick an article from Category:Lutheranism and improve it.
2. Invite new editors to be participants in the project.
3. Category:Lutheranism and the sub-cats need some dedicated work (see talk page).
4. Write a stub - or better yet a full article! - for one of the suggested articles.
5. Continue to check that {{WikiProject Lutheranism}} is on all relevant articles.
6. Continue to re-check article importance & quality, and re-assess as necessary.
7. Regularly review the recent changes in this project's articles for improvements, vandalism, and other changes.

[edit] Pictures to be added

There are still plenty of unused pictures in wikimedia commons.

• Christian Scriver (e.g. from Nordisk familjebok)
• Friedrich Julius Stahl (e.g. from Nordisk familjebok)
• August Friedrich Christian Vilmar (e.g. from Nordisk familjebok)
• Gottlieb Christoph Adolf von Harless (e.g. from German Wikipedia)
• Friedrich Tholuck (e.g. from German Wikipedia)

[edit] Translations

If you happen to notice a great article in different language wikipedia, list it here with a link to the original, and a note about the topic. We will then find translators as we need them (the German wikipedia is probably not a bad place to look for some good Lutheranism articles).

List articles that could be translated here:

• Hermann Sasse has a small stub of an English article, while http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Sasse is over 1,000 words. The German one should be translated and posted over the English.

• The Danish-Halle Mission, should be mentioned here as it is a Lutheran Mission and some regard it as the first organised Protestant Mission at all. There is a German article:http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A4nisch-Hallesche_Mission

• Peder Palladius deserves an article in the English Wikipedia, but he doesn't even have a stub. There is, however, a considerably large article at http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peder_Palladius that could be translated. There is some stuff written about him in English on Google Books: [1]

[edit] Article suggestions

A good place to look for article ideas, and also articles to be translated, is the German-language Wikipedia, especially the Category Martin Luther and the Category Lutheranism.

[edit] Theology

• Simul iustus et peccator (sv:Simul iustus et peccator)
• Examination of the Council of Trent by Martin Chemnitz
• Liquorist controversy(?) (sv:Likvoriststriden)

[edit] Writings of Martin Luther

More articles are needed on the pivotal writings of Martin Luther, some suggestions:

• Lectures on Galatians (Martin Luther)
• Two Kinds of Righteousness
• Wittenberg Postil or Eight Sermons from Wittenberg or Invocavit Sermons
• Others?

[edit] People

[edit] Age of Lutheran Orthodoxy

• Johann Friedrich König
• Joachim Lütkemann
• Heinrich Müller (theologian) (de:Heinrich Müller (Theologe), sv:Heinrich Müller (teolog))

[edit] 19th Century

• Rudolf Rocholl (de:Rudolf Rocholl) [2][3]
• Ernst Sartorius [4][5]

[edit] 20th Century

• Werner Elert (de:Werner Elert)
• Jürgen Diestelmann
• Jobst Schöne (de:Jobst Schöne)
• Regin Prenter (da:Regin Prenter)
• Bengt Hägglund (sv:Bengt Hägglund)
• Tuomo Mannermaa (fi:Tuomo Mannermaa, de:Tuomo Mannermaa)

[edit] Hymnwriters

• Lazarus Spengler (de:Lazarus Spengler, sv:Lazarus Spengler)
• Martin Rinckart (de:Martin Rinckart)

[edit] Liturgy

• An Article on the Formula missae
• 16th century liturgical controversy in Church of Sweden(?) (sv:Liturgiska striden)
• Nuremberg-Brandenburgian church order(?) by Andreas Osiander and Johannes Brenz (maybe important also as an background for Prussian Old Lutherans and their resistance)

[edit] Religious Communities

• Östanbäck monastery (sv:Östanbäcks kloster) [6]
• Alsike convent (sv:Alsike kloster) [7]

[edit] Lutheran Church Bodies

Articles on various Lutheran churches/denominations are needed, some suggestions:

• Evangelical Lutheran Church in Romania
• Gossner Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chotanagpur and Assam

Articles are needed for many of the synods of the ELCA. Articles for the ELCIC synods

[edit] Some Online Sources for Articles

• Nordisk familjebok
• Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon
• Christian Cyclopedia
• Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
• Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
• Meyers Konversations-Lexikon
• Christian Authors Database

[edit] Assessment

Lutheranism articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	1	1		2		4
	A	1	1				2
	GA		1		2		3
	B	3	24	36	37	2	102
	Start	8	34	133	211	12	398
	Stub		21	157	382	7	567
	Assessed	13	82	326	634	21	1076
	Total	13	82	326	634	21	1076

• Assessment – Our rating system
• Project statistics – Statistices for our rating system
• V1.0 index logs, sortings, stats, etc

For more, see our Assessment page.

[edit] Related Categories

[edit] Recognized content

[edit] Featured articles

• Johannes Kepler
• Leonhard Euler

[edit] Good articles

• John Calvin
• Pennsylvania Ministerium
• Liturgical calendar (Lutheran)
• Wernher von Braun

[edit] Did you knows (DYKs)

The following items all appeared in the Wikipedia:Main page's Did You Know section:

• Magdeburg Centuries - 5 June 2006
• Lutheran Church in Malaysia and Singapore - 17 April 2007
• Lutheran Church of China - 28 April 2007
• John Campanius - 5 June 2007
• Paul Henkel - 5 June 2007
• Liturgical calendar (Lutheran) - 19 June 2007
• Pennsylvania Ministerium - 11 July 2007
• Espoo Cathedral - 9 October 2007

[edit] Formerly Recognized Content

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Good articles

• David Hilbert
• Martin Luther
• William Rehnquist

[edit] New articles

• Communität Casteller Ring, by Terot, 29 May 2008
• Amelungsborn Abbey, by Terot, 28 May 2008
• Communität Christusbruderschaft Selbitz, by Terot, 25 May 2008
• Albert Lysander (priest), by Terot, 25 May 2008
• Ordo Crucis, by Terot, 10 May 2008
• Teologisk Oratorium, by Terot, 8 May 2008
• Bekenntnisbruderschaft St. Peter und Paul, by Terot, 28 April 2008
• Priory of St. Wigbert, by Terot, 14 April 2008
• Helmut Echternach, by Terot, 14 April 2008
• Hochkirchlicher Apostolat St. Ansgar, by Terot, 12 April 2008
• Wilhelm Stählin, by Mecklenburger, 25 March 2008
• Johann Franck, by Terot, 29 February 2008
• Franciscan orders in Lutheranism, by Terot, 23 Feb 2008
• Humiliatenorden, by Terot, 28 Jan 2008
• Evangelische Michaelsbruderschaft, by Terot, 24 Jan 2008
• Bund für evangelisch-katholische Einheit, by Terot, 15 Jan 2008
• Aegidius Hunnius, by Terot, 8 Jan 2008
• Johann Hülsemann, by Ajwest1983, 15 December 2007
• United Lutheran Mission Association by Jrshaw, 29 November 2007
• Swedish Church Ordinance 1571 by Fred J, 28 September 2007
• Melchior Vulpius by Subtilior, 27 September 2007
• Berneuchen Movement, by Terot, 30 August 2007
• Lutheran views of homosexuality, by A.Z., 16 August 2007
• Johannes Mathesius, by Eubulides, 20 July 2007
• First Lutheran Church (Albany, New York), 17 July, 2007
• Pennsylvania Ministerium, 5 July 2007
• Liturgical calendar (Lutheran), by jackturner3, 14 June 2007
• Paul Henkel created 19.24, 30 May 2007 by John Carter 19:26, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
• Nicolaus Hunnius, by Terot, 15 May 2007
• Johann Conrad Dannhauer, by Terot, 13 May 2007
• Nicolaus Gallus, by Terot, 13 May 2007
• George III, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, by Terot, 11 May 2007
• Ludwig Adolf Petri, by Terot, 30 April 2007
• Church Order (Lutheran), 30 April 2007 by Terot
• Hochkirchliche Vereinigung Augsburgischen Bekenntnisses, 27 April 2007 by Terot
• Agenda (book for divine service)‎ 11:33, 12 April 2007 by Terot; Mpved by CTSWyneken^(talk) 12:20, 30 April 2007 (UTC) to Agenda (liturgy)

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[edit] Barnstar

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