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Toward Preparing Equippers, Herbert M. Zorn
Toward Preparing Equippers, Herbert M. Zorn
Concordia Theological Monthly
Twenty-four years in India, sixteen of in seminary teaching, might sound like good credentials. Put differently, the credentials wilt: 24 years working within 100 miles of land's end of this vast country, reasonably fluent in only one of India's 18 official languages, barely conversant with another, in contact with nationwide theological education only recently, a member of the steadily diminishing group of expatriate seminary instructors.
Theological Education: The Ecumenical Dimension, Thomas Coates
Theological Education: The Ecumenical Dimension, Thomas Coates
Concordia Theological Monthly
This article was originally presented as a lecture al the Consultation on Ecumenical Affairs of The Lutheran World Federation, Tokyo, Japan, May 5, 1971.
Apostolicity And Ministry, Reginald H. Fuller
Apostolicity And Ministry, Reginald H. Fuller
Concordia Theological Monthly
This article was delivered in substantially this form at the Episcopal-Lutheran dialog on April 15, 1971, together with the one by Dr. Carl S. Meyer. Dr. Fuller surveys the evidence of the New Testament and concludes that the historic episcopate belongs to the essential marks of the church in the same way that the authoritative, historical canon of the Word does.
Apostolicity And Ministry: A Lutheran View, Carl S. Meyer
Apostolicity And Ministry: A Lutheran View, Carl S. Meyer
Concordia Theological Monthly
The author presents an historical survey of the Lutheran view of the ministry, with special emphasis on The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, and concludes that the historic episcopate does not exist jure divino, and that fidelity to the apostolic Word is essential, not fidelity to apostolic succession.