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Wednesday, 23 September 2009 12:40 |
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by Rev. Daniel Biles, St. Paul Lutheran Church, Spring Grove, PA [Editor's note: This article was written before the ELCA Churchwide Assembly took place, August 17-23, 2009] By odd, or perhaps divine, coincidence, the ELCA Churchwide Assembly will end on the Sunday on which the Old Testament reading is from Joshua 24: the renewing of the covenant at Shechem, with Joshua's ringing clarion call to God's people: "Choose this day whom you will serve, but for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." |
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Wednesday, 23 September 2009 10:11 |
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by Rev. David Ramirez, Lincoln, Illinois Of late, the idea has been circulating that the only substantial difference between the LCMS and the WordAlone Network (WAN), a reform group within the ELCA, is the ordination of women. This idea, whether produced in ignorance or out of misguided hope, unfortunately does not stand up to much investigation. Furthermore, even if the ordination of women were the only issue that separated WAN from the LCMS, it is highly unlikely that WAN would change its position on this matter. Female "pastors" are not an incidental part of the organization. They hold positions of leadership at every level, with one even holding the presidency of the WAN. |
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Thursday, 06 August 2009 20:46 |
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by Armand Boehme, Associate Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Northfield, Minnesota. The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (JDDJ) did not appear in a vacuum, but a theological history laid its groundwork. One part of that history involves Karl Holl, a renowned Luther scholar whose work brought about the twentieth-century renewal of Luther studies called the “Luther Renaissance.” Holl’s studies of Luther’s early writings led to supposed new insights into Luther’s theology, including the idea that Luther taught analytic or effective justification in contrast with synthetic or forensic justification. This study examines two aspects of Holl’s “Luther Renaissance” — the primacy of the early Luther, and the analytic understanding of justification — and then traces the influence of these two aspects in Lutheranism and beyond. |
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Friday, 24 July 2009 09:56 |
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Review by Mark Mattes of Grand View University, Des Moines, Iowa The Banff Commission. Delhi, New York: American Lutheran Publicity Bureau, 2008. The Jasper Commission. Delhi, New York: American Lutheran Publicity Bureau, 2008. These two books seek to address specific concerns before North American Lutherans, particularly the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The Banff Commission examines the lack of confessional integrity among North American Lutherans and The Jasper Commission looks at the attempt to legitimate same sex relations among North American Lutherans. Both commissions were requested by Ascension Lutheran Church in Calgary Alberta which authorized its pastor, K. Glen Johnson, to establish an international ecumenical commission to analyze the current theological morass that confronts the Lutheran and other "mainline" churches, particularly with reference to the debate over same sex relations. The Banff Commission was a gathering of theologians and teachers of the church from Canada, the United States, and Germany who gathered in February 2008 specifically to address wishy-washiness among mainline Protestants, especially Lutherans. The members of the commission included K. Glen Johnson, Patrick Henry Reardon, Reinhard Slenczka, J. Larry Yoder, James Arne Nestingen, and Robert Benne. The Jasper Commission was a gathering of psychiatrists, psychologists, theologians, and pastors who met in March 2008 specifically to address issues surrounding the legitimating of same sex relations in and by the church. The members of this commission included Joe Nicolosi, James Nestingen, Merton Strommen, Lee Griffen, Victor Mollerup, and Phillip Gagnon. |
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Monday, 20 July 2009 14:59 |
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At Home in the House of My Fathers: Presidential Sermons, Essays, Letters, and Addresses from the Missouri Synod’s Great Era of Unity and Growth. Compiled, translated, and annotated by Matthew C. Harrison. Fort Wayne, Indiana: Lutheran Legacy Press, 2009. $19.95. Review by Albert B. Collver, III, Saint Louis, MO. Among the clamor of the emergent church movement with its makeover of Christianity and the boastful proclamation of pastors and church officials alike that “it’s not your grandfather’s church,” a quiet movement has spread through the church. In the early years of the twenty-first century “the most vibrant and serious field of Christian study” is that of the church fathers. (First Things November 2006, 15). Anecdotal evidence suggests that this revival is happening along generational lines with the younger generations rediscovering their heritage, as the Boomer generation, in particular, seeks something new. This church father study revival is not limited to those fathers of the first five centuries but has extended to cover the fathers of various confessional movements, including Lutherans. The most recent book in the Lutheran tradition from this rediscovery of the church father movement is Matthew C. Harrison’s At Home in the House of My Fathers. |
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Saturday, 09 May 2009 00:00 |
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The following is a response to Jack Kilcrease's article: Evangelical and Catholic?: The ‘Conservative' Reformation's Scriptural Principle and the Catholicity of the Gospel Response by Paul R. Hinlicky, Tise Professor of Lutheran Studies, Roanoke College, Salem VA I should be flattered by the extravagant attention Dr. Kilcrease has paid to my article from 1999.[1] It is in any case interesting for me to be criticized from the theological Right-an uncommon experience for me in the ELCA. Thanks to the editor's gracious invitation to respond, I have a precious opportunity to offer amplifications and clarifications on my theological project to friends in Lutheranism outside my own troubled denomination. |
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