Niels Hemmingsen on rulers as shepherds.
Niels Hemmingsen
The Church in the World, Militant and Wave-Tossed: Hemmingsen on Luke 5
Yesterday's Gospel reading for the Fifth Sunday after Trinity, according to the traditional Western lectionary, was Luke 5:1-11: And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret,2 And saw two...
“Condemn Not”: More from Hemmingsen on Mercy in Luke 6
Yesterday we looked at the first part of Niels Hemmingsen's discussion of mercy in his Postil sermon for the Fourth Sunday after Trinity on Luke 6:36-42. There, I noted that Hemmingsen analyzes mercy into four parts. Today we come to the second part, signified by the...