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Theologian Of Sin And Grace, Robert Kolb 2015 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Theologian Of Sin And Grace, Robert Kolb

Concordia Journal

This volume is a must for anyone seeking an understanding of the transition from the Wittenberg Reformation to seventeenth-century Lutheran theology as well as the developments in hermeneu- tics, history, and biblical exegesis shaped by this unique figure, Matthias Flacius, the Illyrian.


Proper 23 • Hebrews 3:12–19 • October 11, 2015, Joel Okamoto 2015 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Proper 23 • Hebrews 3:12–19 • October 11, 2015, Joel Okamoto

Concordia Journal

The promise is eschatological, a promise of life with God and all his people in the new creation, enjoying the life of the age to come.


Proper 23 • Hebrews 3:12–19, Joel Biermann 2015 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Proper 23 • Hebrews 3:12–19, Joel Biermann

Concordia Journal

Sin becomes altogether too common and familiar and so “safe.” The writer to the Hebrews screams the contrary alert: Sin kills.


Proper 22 • Hebrews 2:1–13 (14–18), Charles Arand 2015 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Proper 22 • Hebrews 2:1–13 (14–18), Charles Arand

Concordia Journal

Not only did God honor us with the role of being responsible over creation, he now honors us by becoming a human creature so that in him, that right dominion would be restored.


Proper 18 • James 2:1–10, 14–18, Joel Fritsche 2015 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Proper 18 • James 2:1–10, 14–18, Joel Fritsche

Concordia Journal

For faith alone can justify; Works serve our neighbor and supply The proof that faith is living.


Proper 15 • Ephesians 5:6–21, Joel Fritsche 2015 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Proper 15 • Ephesians 5:6–21, Joel Fritsche

Concordia Journal

The Christian Life, A Wake up Call.


Sanctification, David Scaer 2015 Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne

Sanctification, David Scaer

Concordia Journal

Sanctification and the Third use of the Law.


Who Is The Church?: An Ecclesiology For The Twenty-First Century. By Cheryl M. Peterson, Theodore Hopkins 2015 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Who Is The Church?: An Ecclesiology For The Twenty-First Century. By Cheryl M. Peterson, Theodore Hopkins

Concordia Journal

Peterson appropriates insights from communion ecclesiology, the missio Dei movement, and the Lutheran tradition, particularly Luther’s Large Catechism, in order to offer an account of the church’s identity for this time after Christendom.


A Christian In Toga: Boethius— Interpreter Of Antiquity And Christian Theologian. By Claudio Moreschini, Robert Kolb 2015 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

A Christian In Toga: Boethius— Interpreter Of Antiquity And Christian Theologian. By Claudio Moreschini, Robert Kolb

Concordia Journal

How the world of thought fostered by Neoplatonists, pagan and Christian, was being integrated into theology by leading Christian thinkers of the early sixth century, among whom Boethius’s works have won him high standing.


Pentecost • Acts 2:1–21 • May 24, 2015, Kent Burreson 2015 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Pentecost • Acts 2:1–21 • May 24, 2015, Kent Burreson

Concordia Journal

The gift of the resurrection comes to fruition in the Gentile Pentecost as peoples of all the nations die and rise in the baptismal bath of the Holy Spirit.


Easter 7 • 1 John 5:9–15 • May 17, 2015 Testifying In The Courtroom, Leopoldo Sánchez 2015 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Easter 7 • 1 John 5:9–15 • May 17, 2015 Testifying In The Courtroom, Leopoldo Sánchez

Concordia Journal

In true Johannine fashion, the apostle offers us a contrast between two opposing principles at war with each other, namely, the way of the Son that leads to life and the way of the world that leads to death.


Can Anything Good Come Out Of _____? Come And See! Faithful Witness In Marginality And Hospitality, Leopoldo Sánchez 2015 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Can Anything Good Come Out Of _____? Come And See! Faithful Witness In Marginality And Hospitality, Leopoldo Sánchez

Concordia Journal

Christ who is suffering with us becomes a sign that, in light of the Latin American experience of suffering, reminds an often individualistic North American church that is more focused on victories than bearing crosses to embody a ministry of accompaniment with those who experience hostility and alienation.


Living In The Promises And Places Of God A Theology Of The World, Charles Arand, Erik Herrmann 2015 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Living In The Promises And Places Of God A Theology Of The World, Charles Arand, Erik Herrmann

Concordia Journal

In this discourse mutual witness is possible as the lives of both Christians and non-Christians function as a testimony to part of the story of God.


Case For Character: Towards A Lutheran Virtue Ethics. By Joel D. Biermann, Mark Mattes 2015 Grand View College

Case For Character: Towards A Lutheran Virtue Ethics. By Joel D. Biermann, Mark Mattes

Concordia Journal

Over all, Biermann’s contribution is significant, timely, and a remarkable achievement that will alter current discussions of ethics among Lutherans and other Christians.


Lent 2 • Romans 5:1–11 • March 1, 2015, Robert Kolb 2015 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Lent 2 • Romans 5:1–11 • March 1, 2015, Robert Kolb

Concordia Journal

Suffering does not save, but those who have found salvation and peace in Christ can expect the hostility of Satan in the midst of daily life as it manifests itself in attacks and temptations of various kinds.


Making Sense Of Confessionalism Today, Joel Okamoto 2015 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Making Sense Of Confessionalism Today, Joel Okamoto

Concordia Journal

Okamoto states that problems with confessionalism come from taking the Confessions for granted. He suggests making the confessions our own by seeking to explain and defend them for our time and place. The Apology of the Augsburg Confession should remain in force, but a twenty-first Apology could provide a contemporary explanation for current circumstances. This would be a way to appropriate the confessions as confessions, not merely as doctrinal standards, and would be a constructive rather than defensive approach.


“I Make These Confessions My Own” Lutheran Confessional Subscription In The Twenty-First Century Robert Kolb And Charles P. Arand, Robert Kolb, Charles Arand 2015 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

“I Make These Confessions My Own” Lutheran Confessional Subscription In The Twenty-First Century Robert Kolb And Charles P. Arand, Robert Kolb, Charles Arand

Concordia Journal

The spirit of Augsburg and the method of the Wittenberg theologians carry the content of the Lutheran confessional documents into the many societies and cultures of the twenty-first century in which God calls Lutherans to repeat their confession of faith for the benefit of church and world.


The Nicene Creed In The Church, David Maxwell 2015 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

The Nicene Creed In The Church, David Maxwell

Concordia Journal

“Let us confess our Christian faith in the words of the Nicene Creed.” But what do we mean when we identify the content of the faith with the words of the creed.


Introduction From The Chair, Joel Okamoto 2015 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Introduction From The Chair, Joel Okamoto

Concordia Journal

I propose that we think of “confessionalism” as understanding our identity and life as Christians in terms of the basic confession “Jesus is Lord.”


Epiphany 3 • Isaiah 9:1–4 • January 26, 2014, Quentin Wesselschmidt 2015 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Epiphany 3 • Isaiah 9:1–4 • January 26, 2014, Quentin Wesselschmidt

Concordia Journal

The unrepented sins of Israel received their due; so the sins of our age will not go unpunished by God unless people confess their sins and cast themselves upon the mercy of God that is offered in Christ Jesus.


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