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Luther's Sola Scriptura, Lewis W. Spitz

Concordia Theological Monthly

Fifty gulden (about $470) to make Martin a doctor of theology was doubtless one of Elector Frederick's wisest investments - much wiser than the generous amount he spent for his prodigious collection of sacred relics. The payment of this fee guaranteed his Electoral Grace a tremendous benefit to his beloved University of Wittenberg. To obtain this sum of money for the promotion of his brilliant friar, Vicar John Staupitz had to the Elector that Luther would fill the chair of lectura in Biblia of the theological faculty for the remainder of his life.

Editorial Comment, Martin H. Scharlemann

Concordia Theological Monthly

There they were! In front of them lay the Sea of Reeds; behind them were the troops of Pharaoh. To Moses came the order from God Himself, "Tell the people to go forward!" At His command an east wind began to blow strongly enough to create a way of escape for Israel and a path of destruction for its enemies. God's word is always one of power. When He speaks things begin to move - forward! In fact, His action is at times His first word, giving promise of more to come.

Declaring God's Glory Through Welfare Work, William A. Buege

Concordia Theological Monthly

Declare God's Glory," a great church body insisted as it met in convention, and no one could fault it for having chosen anything less than the highest as the standard for measuring its past and the purpose of all its doing in the present and the objective of all its planning for the future. After all, it is called of God out of the darkness of self-governed and self-motivated action into the glorious light of being God-governed and God-motivated so that it might show forth His praises and not the destructive wonders of which man is capable.

Kenyon's Herald Of Life, Vol. 25, No. 11-12 (November-December 1960), Holy Spirit Research Center Oru Library

E. W. Kenyon's Herald of Life

No abstract provided.

Restoration Review - Volume 2, No. 4, Leroy Garrett

Leroy Garrett Documents

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Hermeneutical Principles In Conservative, Liberal, And Neo-Orthodox Protestantism, James Paul Miller

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

G. Campbell Morgan, The Preacher, Robert C. Lamb

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Kenyon's Herald Of Life, Vol. 25, No. 8-10 (August-October 1960), Holy Spirit Research Center Oru Library

E. W. Kenyon's Herald of Life

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Roman Catholic And Protestant Religious Education In The Philippines, Clarita D. Lorenzana

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Editorial Comment, Lewis W. Spitz

Concordia Theological Monthly

Christ and His disciples lived and died during the reign of the Julian Caesars. The Savior was born in the reign of the first and crucified in that of the second. St. Peter and St. Paul died in the reign of the last. Accordingly, everything Christ and His disciples said about the higher powers involved one or the other of these rulers.

Attitudes Toward The Use Of Force And Violence In Thomas Muentzer, Menno Simons, And Martin Luther, Ralph L. Moellering

Concordia Theological Monthly

The treatise offered here seeks to extract and delineate, from three leading figures of the Reformation period, three basic attitudes toward the use of force and violence which have been, and continue to be, assumed by the followers of Jesus Christ. When Constantine first raised the Christian banner in front of his armies he was already tending in the direction of the first position exemplified most clearly in the career and theology of Thomas Muentzcr.

Ordination In The Ancient Church (I), Everett Ferguson

Restoration Quarterly

Ferguson, Everett (1960) "Ordination in the Ancient Church (I)," Restoration Quarterly: Vol. 4 : No. 3.

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Restoration Review - Volume 2, No. 3, Leroy Garrett

Leroy Garrett Documents

No abstract provided.

The Altenburg Debate, William Schmelder

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

This study is an attempt to understand what the issues were which culminated in the Altenburg Debate of 1841. Why did it take two years to find a solution to the problems of the colonists? Were any other solutions attempted? If there were, why were they unacceptable? Against whom did Walther debate at Altenburg? What position did the opposition2advocate? What was the source of Walther's theses? These and many other questions enter the mind of the student of the early history of the Missouri Synod when he begins to evaluate the Altenburg Debate.

The purpose of this study is to …

"But Right Or Wrong-My Architecture. ", George W. Hoyer

Concordia Theological Monthly

Who was it that referred to a recently completed building with the words "It looks as if it were designed by Frank Lloyd Wrong"' What is right in church architecture is always so much a reflection of a proponent's subjective background and experience that comments such as these are like "My country-may she always be right-but my country, right or wrong." A case made for church architecture is usually a case for my architecture.

A Comparison Of Fourth Century Trinitarian Terminology With The Terminology Of Karl Barth, Paul C. Dorn

Bachelor of Divinity

In general, the problem under investigation is in what way and to what extent Karl Barth agrees in his doctrine of the Trinity with the traditional orthodox trinitarian theology formulated by representative theologians during the first four centuries of the Christian Church as well as those condemned doctrines formulated by their opposing heretics. Barth has often been accused of Modalism by some and conversely defended against this view by others. We have felt the importance of settling in some way this nebulous debate by addressing this investigation more specifically in the direction of Modalism, and it is mainly within this …

Scripture And Tradition In Clement Of Alexandria, Robert Louis Wilken

Bachelor of Divinity

In the latter half of .the second century Tertullian could write in his Prescription, "Quid Athenae Hierosolymis"? Not many miles eastward there lived a .contemporary in ' . Alexandria who thought Athens had much to do with Jerusalem. Clement of Alexandria had begun a tradition in. the Catholic Church which was destined to influence its theological thinking until the present day. He began the never-ending task of attempting systematically to relate the Gospel of' Jesus Christ to the culture of the world in which Christians live. Although he has not gained immortality through his own systematic efforts, the fruits of …

An Examination And Evaluation Of The Theology Of Karl Barth And Oscar Gullman On The Doctrine Of Baptism, With Particular Emphasis On The Question Of Infant Baptism, Richard Taron

Bachelor of Divinity

An Examination and Evaluation of the Theology of Karl Barth and Oscar Gullman on the Doctrine of Baptism, with Particular Emphasis on the Question of Infant Baptism It is the purpose of this paper to present the respective views of these two leading theologians on the subject or baptism, in particular infant baptism, as expressed in their two publications on the subject, and to submit them to analysis and criticism. During the course of the paper it will be necessary to refer to the various statements of the New Testament regarding baptism and to compare those passages with certain conclusions …

Philip Melanchthon's Doctrine Of The Holy Eucharist, Randell Tonn

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

This dissertation is an attempt to determine, primarily on the basis of his own major writings, opinions and letters, the doctrine of the Holy Eucharist as taught, believed and confessed by Philip Melanchthon. The question we seek to answer is: “What was Philip Melanchthon’s doctrine of the Holy Eucharist?" This question is deliberately phrased to exclude the question, "What do other commentators say that he taught and believed?" On the basis of his own words, we seek to determine what is Melanchthon saying about the Eucharist; not what might he be interpreted as saying; what would we prefer him to …

Editorial Comment, Walter R. Roehrs

Concordia Theological Monthly

In his instructive novel about the cure of souls entitled The Hammer of God (recently brought out in an excellent English translation by Augustana Book Concern of Rock Island, Ill.) Bishop Bo Giertz of Sweden touches one of his deep pastoral and episcopal concerns in a bit of dialog.

The Unity Of Scripture, Walter R. Roehrs

Concordia Theological Monthly

The unity of Scripture is an article of faith. This unity is also an objective fact that exists apart from faith and does not become a fact merely when I believe it (existentialist theology). But it is more than an arithmetic problem. It is not a mere unit sum at which we arrive by adding a number of given parts and fractions into a whole. This means that it is more than the addition of demonstrable facts and figures.

Citationsof The Church Fathers In The Augsburg Confession And The Apology, Robert Heckmann

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

The purpose of this study is to 1ook again at one facet of the nature of the Church as defined by these Confessions. Such a study, with the insights it affords, is a prerequisite to an intelligent participation in the current discussions of the nature of the Church and the paths to her reunification.

An Analysis Of The Confessionalism Of Edmund Schlink, Based On His “Theologie Der Lutherischen Bekenntnisschriften,” Together With A Translation Of The Original German, Herbert Bouman

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

This present study is concerned with the last-named work and grew out of long pre-occupation with the task of producing an English version. The importance of Schlink's book has been widely recognized in Lutheran circles. To make it available to additional thousands of English-speaking Lutherans who are not able to make full use of the material in its original German, the work of translation was begun by the late Paul F. Koehneke of Milwaukee, and after his death, carried forward to completion by the present writer.

This essay proposes to subject Schlink's theology of the Lutheran Confessions to a critical …

The Biblical Concept Of Righteousness, Donald M. Vorp

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Religious Education In The Public Schools From The Evangelical Point Of View, Donald Dean Mueller

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Marian Library Newsletter: Vol. 15, No. 5, University Of Dayton. Marian Library

Marian Library Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Wesley's Conception Of Religious Education And Conversion, Henry C. James

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

W. Carl Ketcherside Letters To Boyce Mouton, Set 2, William Carl Ketcherside, Terry J. Gardner

W. Carl Ketcherside Papers

Compilation of letters sent by W. Carl Ketcherside to Boyce Mouton, set 2

Luther's Christ, Paul M. Bretscher

Concordia Theological Monthly

For Luther, Christianity centered in the Lord Jesus Christ. First of all, in Christ as the Son of God. For no one else, he says, can overcome the wrath of God, destroy the power of death and devil, and grant eternal life. Whoever, therefore, sells short anything of this article "will in course of time lose all of Christianity and ultimately become a Turk." One may nor, therefore, tamper with the divine Word.

The Influence Of The Reformed Tradition On The Elizabethan Settlement, Lowell H. Zuck

Concordia Theological Monthly

Though the Church of England is now well past its 400th birthday, the sources of its distinctive doctrines and polity are still somewhat unclear. If we can agree that the conclusions reached by Queen Elizabeth I and her Parliament of 1559 were basic to the future shape of the Anglican Church, it is natural then to go into an examination of whether the outcome of the settlement depended primarily on Elizabeth, on someone else perhaps, or upon compromise between Elizabeth and her advisers. Needless to say, the still more difficult question of possible divine intervention in human affairs scarcely comes …