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Foreword, W. Arndt
Foreword, W. Arndt
Concordia Theological Monthly
As one at the beginning of a new year views the religious scene, it cannot be denied that in the Lutheran Church more discussion of questions of doctrine and practice is taking place than has been witnessed in it for at least one, probably for more decades. The great issue is again whether the course of strict, uncompromising confessionalism which this journal and its chief ancestor, Lehre und Wehre, consistently sponsored from the very beginning is morally, that is, in the court of God and our own conscience, defensible, and not only defensible, but right, proper, just, and required. The …
Mental Hygiene And The Bible, H. D. Mensing
Mental Hygiene And The Bible, H. D. Mensing
Concordia Theological Monthly
Mental hygiene has been variously defined, depending upon the school represented or the scope intended. It is sometimes broadly conceived as including the cure of the •abnormal and diseased mind (psychiatry), as also the development and preservation of a healthy mind, an integrated personality. The stress, however, is always upon the prophylaxis, upon the prevention of maladjustment. "All mental hygiene is directed toward a happy and successful life in conformity with the dictates of personal and higher laws."
Do We Need A New Liturgy?, W. Arndt
Do We Need A New Liturgy?, W. Arndt
Concordia Theological Monthly
"Wanted: Some New Wine-skins" is the caption of an engaging article in the October, 1933, number of the Lutheran. Church Quarterly, written by Albert W. Shumaker of Philadelphia. The article is so important that wo cannot refrain from submitting its main statements to our readers, with a few comments of our own.
Proselytizing, A New Problem, Theo. Graebner
Proselytizing, A New Problem, Theo. Graebner
Concordia Theological Monthly
Handbooks for Bible classes that througl1out discredit the Bible have not been a rare offering of the publishers' tables of recent years. But here is a text-book for religious study classes which not only cuts doubt upon the veracity of Bible accounts, but which in detail is designed to eliminate the doctrine of Christianity from the consciousness of the new generation. And it is "approved by the Committee on Curriculum of the Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church.''
The Shifting Sands Of Science, Th. Engelder
The Shifting Sands Of Science, Th. Engelder
Concordia Theological Monthly
Men are colling upon the Christian Church with increasing insistence that it adjust its teachings to the findings of science. The Western Christian Advocate of December 22, 1027, declared: "New discoveries have necessitated new statements of our faith. Our views of the Bible, our ideas as to God's relationship to the world, have got to be reconstructed. . . . The heterodoxies of one day have become the orthodoxies of the next." w. K. Wright, in A. Student’s Philosophy of Religion, demands that he, the student, draw no conclusions in conflict with the dicta of present-day mental and physical science. …