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Remember My Chains: New Testament Perspectives On Incarceration, Matthew L. Skinner
Remember My Chains: New Testament Perspectives On Incarceration, Matthew L. Skinner
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Understanding the physical realities and social attitudes concerning incarceration in the ancient world provides a fuller context to the New Testament’s unadorned and ambiguous references to people’s experience of being held in custody. The context is crucial for interpreting biblical passages that commend caring for prisoners, that reaffirm God’s strength and nullify the ignominy associated with incarceration, and that declare God’s power over the means and motives of imperial coercion. Such passages also compel the contemporary church to advocate on behalf of prisoners and to denounce the systems that regularly victimize them.
Emerging Trends In Confirmation And Equivalent Practices, Terri L. Elton, Katherine Douglass, Richard Osmer
Emerging Trends In Confirmation And Equivalent Practices, Terri L. Elton, Katherine Douglass, Richard Osmer
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This article highlights the findings of The Confirmation Project research, a mixed methods project that studied confirmation and equivalent practices in five denominations in the United States. (The denominations were United Methodist, Presbyterian USA, African Methodist Episcopal, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and the Episcopal Church.) What that discovered was confirmation can provide an opportunity for young people to encounter the gospel anew. It is an important ministry when it strengthens young people’s understanding of faith, deepens their experience with Christian community, and equips them to discern their calling to join in God’s mission in the world. As congregations …
Encountering The Gospel Anew: Confirmation As Ecclesial, Personal, And Missional Practices, Terri L. Elton
Encountering The Gospel Anew: Confirmation As Ecclesial, Personal, And Missional Practices, Terri L. Elton
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Given the challenges facing congregations and young people today, some church leaders are wondering if confirmation continues to have a role in discipling young people. Based on the findings from The Confirmation Project, this article asserts that confirmation is, in fact, uniquely positioned to be a vibrant ministry for young people to encounter the gospel anew when congregations integrate ecclesial, personal, and missional practices. Such an approach strengthens confirmands’ understanding of faith, deepens their experience with Christian community, and equips them to discern their call to join in God’s mission in the world.
Looking High And Low For Salvation In Luke, Matthew L. Skinner
Looking High And Low For Salvation In Luke, Matthew L. Skinner
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Who Is My Neighbor? The Church's Vocation In An Era Of Shifting Community, Dwight J. Zscheile
Who Is My Neighbor? The Church's Vocation In An Era Of Shifting Community, Dwight J. Zscheile
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Dwight Zscheile is an astute scholar of the shifting patterns and contours of American congregational life, and how the changing aspects of American society are impacting them. He argues for local congregations paying renewed attention to the localized communities around them, as well as the new kinds of communities that have arisen in an age of new technological connections.
Who Speaks For (Or Against) Rome? Acts In Relation To Empire, Matthew L. Skinner
Who Speaks For (Or Against) Rome? Acts In Relation To Empire, Matthew L. Skinner
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A Participatory God For A Participatory Culture: Christian Theological Perspectives On Networks, Dwight J. Zscheile
A Participatory God For A Participatory Culture: Christian Theological Perspectives On Networks, Dwight J. Zscheile
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Miracles As Evidence For The Existence Of God, Alan G. Padgett
Miracles As Evidence For The Existence Of God, Alan G. Padgett
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A Tribute To Frederick J. Gaiser: Upon His Retirement As Editor Of Word & World, Mark A. Throntveit
A Tribute To Frederick J. Gaiser: Upon His Retirement As Editor Of Word & World, Mark A. Throntveit
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This tribute to Frederick Gaiser at the end of his term as editor of Word & World comes from a longtime colleague and collaborator in the publication of this journal. Mark Throntveit is the Book Review Editor of this journal, and the Elva B. Lovell Professor of Old Testament at Luther Seminary.
Sabbath And Creation, Kathryn M. Schifferdecker
Sabbath And Creation, Kathryn M. Schifferdecker
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Work and rest, planting and letting lie fallow—these are the rhythms by which both we and the earth are sustained, as on creation’s first Sabbath. “Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.…Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest.” It is, of course, a word of law. For those who have ears to hear, however, it is also a word of promise.
Oppression Interrupted: The Sabbath And Justice, Rolf A. Jacobson
Oppression Interrupted: The Sabbath And Justice, Rolf A. Jacobson
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The Sabbath commandment establishes the principle of God’s regular, gracious intrusion into the economic bondage of life: one day in every seven, work is to stop. From this primary law, the principle of God’s gracious intrusion radiates outward so that other aspects of oppressive work and economic bondage are also affected graciously.
An Image Of Luther For Today: The Catechetical Luther, Mary Jane Haemig
An Image Of Luther For Today: The Catechetical Luther, Mary Jane Haemig
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Lutherans and other Protestants live with Martin Luther as a part of their heritage. Images of him are unavoidable. The image of Luther as catechist offers example and spur. His tireless efforts to teach the Christian faith to all people, not just the academic and learned, should guide us today. The message embodied in his catechisms offers to us purpose, reconciliation, consolation, and hope.
Planning For 2017: Reformation Resources For Your Library, Mark A. Granquist
Planning For 2017: Reformation Resources For Your Library, Mark A. Granquist
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This survey of recent and forthcoming books relating to the Reformation seeks to help readers to navigate the deep waters of this literature and to find useful volumes from which to “drink.”
Five Hundred Years Of Reformation: A Joint Commemoration, Dirk G. Lange
Five Hundred Years Of Reformation: A Joint Commemoration, Dirk G. Lange
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In the sixteenth century, Catholics and Lutherans frequently not only misunderstood but also exaggerated and caricatured their opponents in order to make them look ridiculous. Now, the Lutheran World Federation and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity have produced a liturgy for a joint commemoration of the five hundredth anniversary of the Reformation.
Calling Upon The Name Of God: Father As Metaphor, Dirk G. Lange
Calling Upon The Name Of God: Father As Metaphor, Dirk G. Lange
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God’S Uses Of The Law And The Effort To Establish A Constitutional Right To The Means To Live, Marie A. Failinger, Patrick R. Keifert
God’S Uses Of The Law And The Effort To Establish A Constitutional Right To The Means To Live, Marie A. Failinger, Patrick R. Keifert
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No abstract provided.
Preaching As Foolishness, Steven D. Paulson
Preaching As Foolishness, Steven D. Paulson
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No abstract provided.
Twentieth-Century Profile: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Gary M. Simpson
Twentieth-Century Profile: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Gary M. Simpson
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No abstract provided.
Calling Upon The Name Of God: Father As Personal Name, Steven D. Paulson
Calling Upon The Name Of God: Father As Personal Name, Steven D. Paulson
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No abstract provided.
Youth And The Posthuman: Personhood, Transcendence, And Siri, Erik Leafblad, Andrew Root
Youth And The Posthuman: Personhood, Transcendence, And Siri, Erik Leafblad, Andrew Root
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When everything gets turned into a technology, and existence is about practical mastery, the mystery of being is buried and everything is made an object, blurring the lines between human personhood and other technological objects.
Gebed En Die Vorming Van Christelike Identiteit In Openbaring, Craig R. Koester
Gebed En Die Vorming Van Christelike Identiteit In Openbaring, Craig R. Koester
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No abstract provided.
A True Word?: Scripture, Authority, And The Question Of Truth, Alan G. Padgett
A True Word?: Scripture, Authority, And The Question Of Truth, Alan G. Padgett
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Learning With Digital Technologies: Privileging Persons Over Machines, Mary E. Hess
Learning With Digital Technologies: Privileging Persons Over Machines, Mary E. Hess
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Learning with digital technologies, at least when framed by moral commitments, requires lifting up specific epistemological frames, beginning with a conviction that learning involves human persons in interdependent communities who are involved in a shared search for truth. Such a conviction necessitates moving from teaching-centered to learning-centered pedagogies, and from explicit content to shaping tacit forms of knowing. Digital technologies can prove highly beneficial when used within those constraints.
Stop Worrying About The Millennials*: *And Learn To Love Them Instead, Andrew Root
Stop Worrying About The Millennials*: *And Learn To Love Them Instead, Andrew Root
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Practical Advice On Prayer From Martin Luther, Mary Jane Haemig
Practical Advice On Prayer From Martin Luther, Mary Jane Haemig
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Martin Luther’s comments and instructions on prayer permeated his work. Luther sought to build an evangelical prayer practice that reflected the key insights of his theology: just as God redeems the unworthy human, so God promises to hear and respond to the one praying, despite his or her unworthiness.
Praying The Psalms, Kathryn M. Schifferdecker
Praying The Psalms, Kathryn M. Schifferdecker
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The Psalms teach us how to pray. When we pray the Psalms, we follow in the footsteps of a long line of Christians and Jews who have used the Psalter as a guide to prayer. We learn from those saints to bring all of ourselves to God in prayer: our sorrows, our laments, and our anger as well as our joys and praise.
Does The Bible Have A Big Story? Yes, For The Sake Of Mission!, Alan G. Padgett
Does The Bible Have A Big Story? Yes, For The Sake Of Mission!, Alan G. Padgett
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Does The Bible Have A Big Story? Well, Only If We Don't Know The End!, David E. Fredrickson
Does The Bible Have A Big Story? Well, Only If We Don't Know The End!, David E. Fredrickson
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Religion And Ethnicity In The United States, Mark A. Granquist
Religion And Ethnicity In The United States, Mark A. Granquist
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Religion and ethnicity are deeply intertwined in American life. This does not mean that Americans cannot be one in the gospel, but we will need new models and new ideas of how to express our unity with one another that take into account the ethnic diversity of twenty-first-century America.
We Are Our Stories: Narrative Dimension Of Human Identity And Its Implications For Christian Faith Formation, Rolf A. Jacobson
We Are Our Stories: Narrative Dimension Of Human Identity And Its Implications For Christian Faith Formation, Rolf A. Jacobson
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Increasingly, representatives of diverse disciplines have come to a significant consensus about human identity. Each of us constructs and lives in a narrative that is, in fact, us. If this is the case, we will need an outside source to construct a narrative that is both good and true—one to which and in which we can give our lives. Such a story is given us in Holy Scripture and in the collective memory of the church.