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The Powerful Image Of The Passion, Jonathan Kraemer

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Of all the images which depict Jesus, perhaps the one that deserves extended and in-depth contemplation is that of the passion of our Lord. This image is both rich in meaning and communicates different things to different people based upon their context and their pastoral need. This becomes clear when Martin Luther considers how one should meditate upon the cross of Christ in two different works written just months apart in 1519. The first, written in April, is called Meditation Upon Christ’s Passion1 and the second A Sermon on Preparing to Die2 was penned in November. Despite being written so …

Grapho 2025, Kyle Moellenhoff

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The theme for this year’s journal, “With Eyes of Faith,” was selected to fit with the Seminary’s theme for the academic year, “Let us Fix our Eyes on Jesus.” As I pondered this theme it was the word “eyes” that stood out most. The Lutheran tradition, with its rich theology of the proclaimed Word, tends to focus heavily on the ears. After all, Paul says that “faith comes from hearing” (Rom 10:17). But with all this salutary emphasis on hearing, we should not neglect the role that the eyes play in the life of faith.

The Visitor, Joshua Fields

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Take and drink.” The command, rehearsed countless times before, nevertheless rolled forward slovenly, tripped on the edge of Privett’s tongue, and tumbled over his sharp chin into the ears of his parishioner. The recumbent old woman, still chewing with the monotonous motion of an outdated machine, bent her neck awkwardly. Privett lowered the cup. Through a gap in the blinds, a ray of sunlight momentarily caught hold of it, arresting the glass midair. The suspended wine glistened with shards of gold. Then Privett’s arm moved again, and the room’s habitual shadows extinguished it. Like a tiny blind organism creeping toward …

The Eye Of The Beholder, Nathaniel Pekari

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The Eye of the Beholder

A Chaucerian Portrait Of The Theologian, Jason Dulworth

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A Chaucerian Portrait of the Theologian

Apocalypse, Matthew Vatthauer

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Apocalypse

Individualism And A False Christ, Benjamin Wagner

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I once sat down with a well-read church historian to inquire about what makes the American Church distinct from those of the past two millennia in Christian tradition. Instead of rambling on about megachurches, televangelists, the prosperity Gospel, Christian liberalism, or anything of the sort, I received a rather blunt and uneventful answer. Immediately after my mouth closed, the historian replied, “The American Church is very individualistic.” From there, the conversation drifted into the fall of Christianity in the West, the rise of secularism, and the general spiritual deadness permeating the atmosphere of America. In the Historian’s mind, there was …

Letter From The Chairman, Kyle Moellenhoff

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The theme for this year’s journal, “With Eyes of Faith,” was selected to fit with the Seminary’s theme for the academic year, “Let us Fix our Eyes on Jesus.” As I pondered this theme it was the word “eyes” that stood out most. The Lutheran tradition, with its rich theology of the proclaimed Word, tends to focus heavily on the ears. After all, Paul says that “faith comes from hearing” (Rom 10:17). But with all this salutary emphasis on hearing, we should not neglect the role that the eyes play in the life of faith.

The Congregation In All Her Glory: How The History Of The Association Of Free Lutheran Congregations (Aflc) Can Be Used To Teach Free And Living Church Polity, Stephen Mark Mundfrom

Doctor of Ministry Major Applied Project

Among Lutheran denominations in America, the Association of Free Lutheran Congregations privileges the free activity of the congregation with a unique church polity. Because of its rarity, the AFLC is especially concerned that a correct understanding of its polity be taught at its schools and passed on effectively to future generations. One way to ensure that this occurs successfully is through a combination of theological and historical instruction. Historical education has been in decline for several hundred years due to developments in Western thought. Nevertheless, significant arguments can be made for the necessity of an historical and narrative understanding of …

The Psalms And The Good Life Of God’S People, Rachel Mccloskey

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We belong to Christ who speaks his word to us. As a creedal church body, we recognize that God’s word is not only a word to be received, but a word to be confessed back to him. As the Spirit works through the word, he forms and shapes us as God’s confessing people. It has a transformative effect. We belong to Christ and his word does not leave us unchanged.

Not My Church: Confessional Living In An All-Consuming World, Cody Macmillan

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What I hope to offer in the following pages is a vision for the Church that is not our own in a world that is increasingly foreign to us. In a discussion of the Scriptures and the Sacraments, I would like to present three ways in which this Church is distinctly alien in nature. She presents alien standards, alien sentiment, and alien strength to which we are called to subscribe, submit, and surrender. In presenting the alien nature of this church, I offer points of contrast and comparison with the culture to which we are tempted to succumb. These comparisons …

Our Father Spoke, And It Was Good, Jason Kohm

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A Wedding Hymn compsed by Jason Kohm.

The Beginnings Of Jewish Missions In The Lcms, Jaron Melin

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Mission is the theological account of the relationship between the church and the world. Where are the Jews in this relationship? If the church and the Jews had a relationship status on Facebook, then it might say, “It’s complicated.” This may be true of any kind of missions, but this shows itself to be especially true in Lutheran history and in particular LCMS-history. I look at the histories as recorded by Meyer, Lieske, Cohen, Parviz, and others on the early history of Jewish Missions in the LCMS, and I reflect on the context and theology behind them using missiologists like …

The Holy Spirit As The Undiminished Giver In The Early Church, Kyle Weeks

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At one time or another, virtually every churchgoing Christian is bound to hear the moniker of “Sanctifier” applied to the Holy Spirit. In this role, the Spirit is often described as dwelling within believers to make them holy, so that they might produce the “fruit of the spirit” as they lead good and godly lives.2 To that end, the Spirit is said to effect a complete “regeneration and renewal” of the individual, empowering them with the strength, grace, virtues, and other “spiritual gifts” requisite for Christian life.3 In denominations such as Lutheranism, faith itself is proclaimed to be impossible without …

Virtual Reality In And For Creation, Jaron Melin

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Within the last few years, there has been growing excitement and concern in the rise of what is called the metaverse. How do various enthusiasts and observers characterize the metaverse? Bobrowsky on the Wall Street Journal reports the metaverse as “an extensive online world transcending individual tech platforms, where people exist in immersive, shared virtual spaces. Through avatars, people are able to try on items available in stores or attend concerts with friends, just as they would offline.”

Letter From The Chairman: Why We Are Not Our Own, Cody Macmillan

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In his book, You Are Not Your Own, author and professor Alan Noble argues that the fundamental lie of modernity is the one which says we belong to ourselves.1 He is concerned with our society's increased emphasis on individualism, and he asserts that it requires serious and intentional effort to remember how we belong to Christ. This truth, Noble says, is not just a doctrine to which we must subscribe but a reality which touches every part of our lives.2 It runs contrary to the narratives of self-discovery and self-ownership that we are surrounded by today, and it is the …

Bitterness And Anger In Ephesians, Archetypes, & The Bi-Hemispheric Structure Of The Brain: Comparing Paul, Jordan Peterson, And Iain Mcgilchrist, Joshua Armstrong

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Many people eager to confront falsehood and pursue justice or truth do so nourishing a vindictive, bitter, or resentful attitude. Nourishing anger, particularly resentment, is akin to stoking up the archetypal “Luciferian spirit,” according to clinical psychologist and author Jordan Peterson. This spirit presumes: “what I do is all there is to do, what I know is all there is to know.” It is symptomatic of attending to the world in a way overly reliant on a “left-hemisphere” approach, which leads to entrapment in a “self-reflexive virtual world” disconnected from real “other” things, and only really knowing itself, according to …

Christian Narrative Service: God’S Story Of Everything In Worship, Jaron Melin

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Christian Narrative Service: God’s Story of Everything in Worship

Grapho 2024, Cody Macmillan

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Grapho 2024

El Jardín De Dios, Irene Acuña, Maija De Kuoppala, Nélida Mora, Zulma Ojeda, Arlene De Pavasars, Viesturs Pavasars

Cursos teológicos-otros

Un curso sobre la metodología para la enseñanza cristiana para la formación de

Jeremías: El Mensaje De Dios, Ayer Y Hoy (Del Profeta Jeremías), Viesturs Pavasars

Cursos teológicos-otros

Un curso avanzado sobre el profeta Jeremías, el profeta de la esperanza, en el contexto del Antiguo Testamento. Este curso utiliza el método de investigación inductiva bíblica. Tiene el propósito de enseñar a los estudiantes a interpretar un libro profético del Antiguo Testamento y aplicar sus enseñanzas a nuestra realidad. Incluye: Manual del alumno.

Eb-Doctrina De La Iglesia, Pablo Brink

Estudios Bíblicos

EB-Doctrina de la Iglesia

Christ In All Times, Avery Hjulberg, Patrick W. Randolph, Drew Oswald, Jonah Clausen, Luther Cameron, Noah Dunsmore, Ryan Philpot, Nicholas Brusick, Justin Hilton, Tyler Bartels, Jonah Schultz, Paige Rebber, Joshua Teggatz, David Schotte, Henry Eising, Jacob Stefanec, Benjamin Vanderhyde, Conner Walts, Daniel Vanderhyde, Scott Woodhouse, Grant Burnham, Jesse O’Shell, Aine Molvik, Thomas Malmstrom, Travis Galle, Zigmas Kisielius, Isaiah Mudge, Josiah Coblentz, Andrew Frerichs, Ruth Ann Langness, Jacob Manning, Matthew Harrison, Andrew Cole, Seth Horn, Matthew Lynch, John Kastner, Case Farney, Nathan Tritch, Jordan Deboer, Sam Aizenberg, John Carpenter, Sofia Van Hattem, Jacob Bergstedt, Pamela Vue, Lydia Grabau, Marius-Sergiu Trifa, Matt Doebler

Other Student Publications

Throughout the Old Testament, there are prefigurations, foreshadows, and prophecies of the coming Messiah. Through the person and work of various people throughout the Scriptures, God’s people saw glimpses into the greater person and work of Christ Jesus. These figures are often called Christ figures because they in some way exemplify a characteristic of Christ: life, security, deliverance, promised land, king, prophet, priest, sacrifice. As St. Paul says, “These are but a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ” (Col. 2:7).

God’s people waited for the coming Messiah, and in Christ, the disciples saw this …

Concordia Seminary Magazine Fall/Winter 2023, Vicki Biggs

Concordia Seminary Magazine

We Belong to Christ

Vida Y Obra De Francisco De Enzinas, AdriáN Correnti

Artículos educación teológica

Vida y obra de Francisco de Enzinas

Devotions For Advent 2023 Return & Rebuild The Temple Of God An Advent & Christmastide Devotional, Avery Hjulberg, Patrick W. Randolph, Aaron Coggins, Abby Reynolds, Julie Baumann, Brenna Mcguire, Brian Frank, Nathan Bublitz, Danniel Christensen, Cody Macmillin, Dan Hollister, David Scarborough, Henry Eising, Ezekiel Grabau, Gavin Johnson, Lydia Grabau, Haley Randolph, Harvey Peters, Tim Hendrick, Peyton Holland, Hunter Kinnison, Jackson Scofield, Josiah Coblentz, Kevin Mcgladdery, Kyle Bliss, Luke Otten, Josh Marlatt, Lara Mccormack, Kyle Moellenhoff, Morgan Phillips, Isaiah Mudge, Luke Onken, Vincent Otto, Dillon Weber, Wesley Deiss, William Ebel

Other Student Publications

Greetings in the name of Christ! Across two seminaries, across several states, and across this Advent and Christmastide, we have gathered devotions from several students- both at CTSFW and CSL- to guide us in our consideration of this season. As new theologians and workers in the Church, we have a chance to encourage our brothers and sisters and stir each other up to look to Christ. So who is this Christ? He is the culmination of the entire Scriptures, and so we find Him everywhere.

The books of Ezra and Haggai are center stage in the Advent portion: God provides …

Administración De La Congregación, Leonardo Stahlke

Cursos del Instituto Hispano de Teología (IHT)

Este curso es una introducción general a la teología de la administración responsable de una congregación y una presentación de métodos para motivar a un equipo de personas para llevar a cabo esta administración y ser mayordomos responsables ante Dios. Se tocarán diversos temas referentes a la administración, como ser: el personal o los empleados en la iglesia, las relaciones públicas en la iglesia, la administración de la oficina, y la mantención de los archivos necesarios de la congregación.

Introducción Al Antiguo Testamento Parte I, Douglas V. Johnstone

Cursos del Instituto Hispano de Teología (IHT)

Este curso es la continuación del curso Introducción al Antiguo Testamento I, y abarca los libros proféticos (5 mayores y 12 menores) y los libros poéticos. Se estudiará algo más la historia de Israel, y a la luz de este fondo histórico, se estudiará cada libro, prestándose atención especial al autor, fecha de composición, problemas especiales, canonicidad, forma, estructura, contenido, temas teológicos, e importancia para hoy en día,

Sistemática I, Juan G. Berndt

Cursos del Instituto Hispano de Teología (IHT)

Este curso dará una introducción general al concepto de la religión, verá los principios en base a los cuales se formulan los conceptos teológicos y profundizará en el estudio de las enseñanzas acerca de la Sagrada Escritura, Dios, la creación, la providencia, los ángeles, el hombre y la gracia.

Génesis, Rodolfo H. Blank

Cursos del Instituto Hispano de Teología (IHT)

Este curso consta de dos partes relacionadas: (1) y descripción general de los primeros cinco libros del Antiguo Testamento en las que se tratarán temas de naturaleza teológica; (2) un estudio exegético del libro del Génesis sobre la base del texto en español con la referencia del instructor con ideas importantes del texto hebreo. El énfasis estará en el estudio del texto del Génesis (17 unidades).