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Logia a journal of lutheran theology S, S S — S Eastertide 2001 volume x, number 2 ei[ ti" lalei', wJ" lovgia Qeou' C A This issue’s cover illustration is Albrecht Dürer’s “Man of Sorrows” from his Small Passion, a series of 36 woodcuts which first logia is a journal of Lutheran theology. As such it publishes appeared as a book in . Depicting the suffering, death and res- articles on exegetical, historical, systematic, and liturgical theolo- urrection of Jesus, the Small Passion was one of six series rendered by the master German Renaissance artist on the passion theme. It gy that promote the orthodox theology of the Evangelical also includes themes such as the Fall and Nativity. Lutheran Church. 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