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Lectures On Galatians, Wm. Dallmann

Concordia Theological Monthly

The saving Gospel we have been learning is also the social Gospel we shall be learning.

"Brethren, ye were called unto freedom. Only use not this freedom for an opening of the flesh." Freedom is to be used, not abused for a cloak of wickedness, 1 Pet. 2: 16. A frightful abuse of freedom was that of the Anabaptists at Muenster, in Westphalia, at the time of the Reformation.

General Synod Liberalism In The U. L. C. A., Theodore Graebner

Concordia Theological Monthly

The CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL MONTHLY has frequently expressed editorial amazement over the teachings which are permitted to represent the theology of the United Lutheran Church through pages of the Lutheran Church Quarterly, edited jointly by the faculties of the theological seminaries at Gettysburg and at Philadelphia. Particularly the book reviews have been permitted to express views which diverge considerably from the doctrine of the Lutheran Confessions. But it is rarely that a single issue of the Quarterly contains so much as the October issue of this year (1940) to discourage those who have been hoping for an upward trend in the …

Sermones "Dormi Secure", J. H. Fritz

Concordia Theological Monthly

"Of course," says Emerson, "there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man." If books were not to be read and studied and the information and knowledge contained in them not to be used, there would be no purpose in writing and printing them. Books are the workman's tools. Every minister should have a good working library, a sufficient number of good books.

Address At The Opening Of The School-Year In Concordia Seminary, St.Louis, Mo., L. Fuerbringer

Concordia Theological Monthly

''I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord which made heaven and earth." These words of the 121st Psalm come to my mind as I am about to speak the first word at the beginning of our new scholastic year, the 102d year in the history of our institution. I know of no better watchword for our students and for our instructors in these very serious and distressing times in the world, which affect also our Church and may affect our institution to a lesser or greater degree. …

Lectures On Galatians, Wm. Dallmann

Concordia Theological Monthly

Christ became a curse for us.

Why do you not jump up quivering from this electric shock?

Christ, the Only-begotten of the Father, in the bosom of the Father from eternity, in the glory of the Father-this majestic Christ became a curse for us.

A startling statement! What is it all about?

Reason Or Revelation?, Th. Engelder

Concordia Theological Monthly

Satan's paramour is the mistress of a thousand wiles. We cannot conclude this study of the evils of rationalism without studying the more subtle methods by which Satan would beguile us and lead us away from the truth of Christ and the certainty of His Word. If he cannot get us to falsify the Word, he will aim to keep us from applying the Word, from exercising our faith, from putting our sole reliance on the teaching of Scripture and the promise of the Gospel.

Entwuerfe Ueber Die Von Der Synodalkonferenz Angenommene Epistelreihe, J. H. Fritz

Concordia Theological Monthly

Entwuerfe ueber die von der Synodalkonferenz angenommene Epistelreihe (Drafts on the series of epistles adopted by the Synodal Conference)

Entwuerfe Ueber Die Von Der Synodalkonferenz Angenommene Epistelreihe, P. E. Kretzmann

Concordia Theological Monthly

Entwuerfe ueber die von der Synodalkonferenz angenommene Epistelreihe (Drafts on the series of epistles adopted by the Synodal Conference)

Reason Or Revelation?, Th. Engelder

Concordia Theological Monthly

Rationalism is an evil thing, working untold harm. And harmonizing Scripture as practiced by Lutheran theologians is a form of rationalism. The harmonizers operate with the principles of rationalism. True, they do not apply them as widely as the gross rationalists. They restrict the harmonizing operation to selected portions of the Christian doctrine. But there they are engaged in the evil business of rationalism, in a wicked and harmful business.

St. Paul On Social Relationships, Rthur Carl Piepkorn

Concordia Theological Monthly

There are in visible Christendom two types of social theorists who derive small comfort from a study of St. Paul's letters. The first group comprises the extreme mystical individualists, who think of Christianity as being exclusively an individual escape from the wrath to come, while the second is composed of the social theorists, who insist that the Church's chief reason for existence is to prepare the nations of mankind for the establishment by God through the Church of "a home, in history and in the world, in which men shall be brothers in Christ under the paternal arch of [God's] …

Die Erscheinungen Des Auferstandenen Heilandes, P. E. Kretzmann

Concordia Theological Monthly

Die Erscheinungen des auferstandenen Heilandes (The Appearances of the Risen Savior)

Reason Or Revelation?, Th. Engelder

Concordia Theological Monthly

"It will be seen from the above that our strictures of distinctive Reformed teachings can be summarized under the heads of rationalism and legalism, representing pernicious tendencies to which we all are prone and which seriously impair divine truth as revealed to us in the Holy Scriptures." (Popular Symbolics, p. 223.) We all are prone to rationalistic thinking. We Lutherans, too, need to guard against setting reason above revelation. We need it as much as any. What we have set down in the preceding articles was not addressed so much to the vulgar rationalists and the Reformed rationalists as to …

Entwuerfe Ueber Die Von Der Synodalkonferenz Angenommene Epistelreihe, F. E. Mayer

Concordia Theological Monthly

Entwuerfe ueber die von der Synodalkonferenz angenommene Epistelreihe (Drafts on the series of epistles adopted by the Synodal Conference)

Ba∏Tizω, K. G. Manz

Concordia Theological Monthly

It is a sad fact that men, swayed by a fatal bias, will make rash statements about, and posit propositions in regard to, Baptism which can be maintained neither in the face of the Scriptures nor before the forum of history. This is true, for instance, in reference to the question of immersion in the administration of Holy Baptism. The importance of the subject demands that we consider soberly what the Bible and the early history of the Church teach us in regard to the mode of baptism.

Kleine Prophetenstudien, L. Fuerbringer

Concordia Theological Monthly

Kleine Prophetenstudien (Little Prophet Studies)

Lectures On Galatians, Wm. Dallmann

Concordia Theological Monthly

That majestic Lord gave Himself when He left His throne of glory in heaven for the lowly manger in Bethlehem in the days of Caesar Augustus, and Quirinius, the governor of Syria, and Herod the Great, the king of Judea.

Reason Or Revelation?, Th. Engelder

Concordia Theological Monthly

There are more rationalists in the churches than go by that name. While the rationalists openly proclaim the sola ratio, the rule of natural reason, others market their wares under an alias. When the experience-theologians operate with the "enlightened reason" and the Roman Catholics make the church, or the Pope, their authority, they make natural reason a source and norm, the source and norm of theology. But that does not tell the whole story. Even among those who loudly proclaim the sola Scriptura there are many who have come under the sway of rationalism.

Why Preach?, John H. Fritz

Concordia Theological Monthly

Preaching, if it is to serve its divine purpose, must have a very definite objective. This the preacher should not only know, but of this he should be conscious. What is the objective? Why preach?

Reason Or Revelation?, Th. Engelder

Concordia Theological Monthly

There are more rationalists in the churches than go by that name. It is not a nice name. Rationalism is, as we have shown in the preceding articles, an ugly, wicked thing. It sets itself above Scripture, above God. Who would want to proclaim himself a rationalist? Our Liberals indeed are not ashamed of the name. But the great majority of theologians dislikes it. However, many of them, very many of them, are doing the very same thing the rationalists have been doing, and they do it because they like it. They fall into two groups. The first group, made …

Entwuerfe Ueber Die Von Der Synodalkonferenz Angenommene Epistelreihe, Martin S. Sommer

Concordia Theological Monthly

Entwuerfe ueber die von der Synodalkonferenz angenommene Epistelreihe (Drafts on the series of epistles adopted by the Synodal Conference)

Kleine Prophetenstudien, L. Fuerbringer

Concordia Theological Monthly

Kleine Prophetenstudien (Little Prophet Studies)

Entwuerfe Ueber Die Von Der Synodalkonferenz Angenommene Epistelreihe, Martin S. Sommer

Concordia Theological Monthly

Entwuerfe ueber die von der Synodalkonferenz angenommene Epistelreihe (Drafts on the series of epistles adopted by the Synodal Conference)

Kleine Prophetenstudien, L. Fuerbringer

Concordia Theological Monthly

Kleine Prophetenstudien (Little Prophet Studies)

Reason Or Revelation?, Th. Engelder

Concordia Theological Monthly

Making reason the norm, that is, in reality, the source of religious teaching, is a wicked, evil, noisome thing. We have shown that rationalism is engaged in a wicked, evil business. It is, at the same time, and necessarily so, an evil, noisome, pernicious thing.

The Great Reconciliation, E. W. Koehler

Concordia Theological Monthly

The Great Reconciliation is truly the core and center of the entire system of Christian doctrine. All other teachings of the Bible either lead up thereto, or they proceed therefrom. Thus the doctrine of the Law and of sin shows us the need of a reconciliation. The doctrine of grace and of the redemption through Christ shows us how this reconciliation was effected. The doctrine of the means of grace and of faith teaches us how this reconciliation is made known and offered to sinners and how the individual personally apprehends the same. The doctrine of the Church shows that …

The Prophets And Political And Social Problems, Theodore Laetsch

Concordia Theological Monthly

Any one that even casually reads the prophetic books of the Old Testament will see at once that the prophets took a very active interest in the social problems of their day and pointed out a way to their solution. The question is whether what they say on these problems still applies to conditions in the twentieth century, 2,500 and more years later than these prophets lived. A categorical denial of the applicability of Old Testament prophecy to our present-day conditions would come into conflict with such clear Scripture-passages as Rom.15: 4 and 2 Tim. 3: 16. On the other …

Erasmus's Pictures Of Church Conditions, Wm. Dallmann

Concordia Theological Monthly

The Religious Pilgrimage describes the visit of Erasmus and Dean Colet to the shrine of St. Thomas a Becket, "one of the most religious pilgrimages in the world." In the south porch of the church stand three stone statues of men In armor, who with wicked hands murdered the holy man, with the names of their countries -Tusci, Fusci, and Betri. They have the same honor done them that is done to Judas, Pilate, Caiaphas, and the band of wicked soldiers whose images you may see carved upon stately altars; and their names are added that no one after them …

Entwuerfe Ueber Die Von Der Synodalkonferenz Angenommene Epistelreihe, Th. Laetsch

Concordia Theological Monthly

Entwuerfe ueber die von der Synodalkonferenz angenommene Epistelreihe (Drafts on the series of epistles adopted by the Synodal Conference)

Entwuerfe Ueber Die Von Der Synodalkonferenz Angenommene Epistelreihe, F. E. Mayer

Concordia Theological Monthly

Entwuerfe ueber die von der Synodalkonferenz angenommene Epistelreihe (Drafts on the series of epistles adopted by the Synodal Conference)

Entwuerfe Ueber Die Von Der Synodalkonferenz Angenommene Epistelreihe, H. J. Bouman

Concordia Theological Monthly

Entwuerfe ueber die von der Synodalkonferenz angenommene Epistelreihe (Drafts on the series of epistles adopted by the Synodal Conference)