Tag: Niels Hemmingsen

The Magistrate as “Shepherd of the People”

E.J. Hutchinson — September 10, 2025

The Magistrate as “Shepherd of the People”

Niels Hemmingsen on rulers as shepherds.

The Church in the World, Militant and Wave-Tossed: Hemmingsen on Luke 5

E.J. Hutchinson — July 18, 2022

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…

“Condemn Not”: More from Hemmingsen on Mercy in Luke 6

E.J. Hutchinson — July 12, 2022

“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…