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Luther's Sola Scriptura, Lewis W. Spitz
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
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
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.
Editorial Comment, Lewis W. Spitz
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
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.
"But Right Or Wrong-My Architecture. ", George W. Hoyer
"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.
Editorial Comment, Walter R. Roehrs
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
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.
Luther's Christ, Paul M. Bretscher
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
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 …
The Theological Implications Of Confirmation, Arthur C. Repp
The Theological Implications Of Confirmation, Arthur C. Repp
Concordia Theological Monthly
Since the Christian's whole life is a continuous spiritual Baptism, what is the relationship of the Word and the Lord's Supper in Baptism? Are they subordinate to it? Not at all. As Regin Prenter points out, it is just because the baptismal covenant, God's promise of man's salvation and man's faith in God's promise, implies the necessity of a lifelong exercise of man's faith in that covenant that there is a need for a continuous sanctifying activity of the living Word, not in competition with, but in consequence of the regenerating activity of the living Word in Baptism. ln this …
The Theological Implications Of Confirmation, Arthur C. Repp
The Theological Implications Of Confirmation, Arthur C. Repp
Concordia Theological Monthly
The Lutheran practice of confirmation can hardly be described as uniform during its long history. The differences varied greatly both in number and in kind as many accretions attached themselves to this practice. Because there was no Biblical basis for confirmation, the Lutheran Church did not hesitate to warrant new emphases and directions with changing circumstances and needs. As confirmation is practiced today, especially in the United States, it is cluttered with the remnants of such additions, the origins of which are rarely recognized. Just as the Reformation Church thought it was restoring confirmation in accord with the tradition of …
Prolegomena According To Karl Barth, Robert D. Preus
Prolegomena According To Karl Barth, Robert D. Preus
Concordia Theological Monthly
In a former article I pointed out by way of introduction that Karl Barth by his raking cognizance of both exegesis and church history ranks rightfully above most of his contemporaries as a dogmatician of stature. In the present article I shall try to examine Barth's opinion on the subjects of theology and dogmatics more specifically. We shall find that Barth takes a position on the matter of prolegomena very close to that of the 16th- and 17th-cenrury Lutheran and Reformed teachers, that his position is in the main both Scriptural and sane. Here, although we shall perhaps discern nothing …
The Posture Of The Interpreter, Martin H. Franzmann
The Posture Of The Interpreter, Martin H. Franzmann
Concordia Theological Monthly
Practically everybody in Christendom claims to be in some sense under Scripture. The Liberal feels that he is being "true to the deepest intentions" of Jesus or of Paul when he treats Scripture in his own fashion. Bultmann claims to be dealing so radially with the form of the New Testament message merely in order to confront modern man with what he considers the essential content of the New Testament message. And certainly the Fundamentalist, for all his frequent failure to make the most basic and radical distinction that the Bible itself knows, the distinction between law and Gospel, interprets …
The Word Of God In The Theology Of Karl Barth, Robert D. Preus
The Word Of God In The Theology Of Karl Barth, Robert D. Preus
Concordia Theological Monthly
The purpose of this series of articles is to acquaint the reader with the theology of the leading Protestant theologian of our day, Karl Barth. It is often more rewarding to examine one theologian of real stature rather than dissipate our limited space upon a more sketchy overview of the ideas of two or three well-known theologians. And Barth is the man whom we must still choose today. Certainly Bultmann and Tillich, whose theologies are philosophically oriented and structured, will have far less to offer the Christian Church. Brunner, who really never left the ground of liberalism, is no longer …
The Ecumenical Movement And The Lutheran Church, Hermann Sasse
The Ecumenical Movement And The Lutheran Church, Hermann Sasse
Concordia Theological Monthly
Church history knows of great movements which sweep through the whole of Christendom, irrespective of national and denominational lines, and bring about profound changes in the inner life and the outward appearance of all churches. Such movements were Pietism and Rationalism in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the great European Awakening in the 19th century. Such a movement is the Ecumenical Movement, which in our time is penetrating all churches of Christendom, including Rome and the Eastern churches. The effects may prove to be as far-reaching as those of the great movement of the 16th century which we call …
Editorial, Martin H. Franzmann
Editorial, Martin H. Franzmann
Concordia Theological Monthly
Even a theological journal begins a new volume with the beginning of the civil year, not with the beginning of the church year. Strictly and theologically speaking, the 6th of January is not so incisive a caesura in the rhythm of our life as is the first Sunday in Advent. But it is significant, this 6th of January. It reminds us that, though we taste the powers of the world to come, we taste them in this world. It reminds us that though the night is far spent and God's day has drawn near, we walk "as in the day," …