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In God For The World: Three Reflections- Good Men Are Hard To Find, Gilbert Amadeus Thiele Jan 1974

In God For The World: Three Reflections- Good Men Are Hard To Find, Gilbert Amadeus Thiele

Concordia Theological Monthly

Good Men Are Hard to Find


Theological Education In Ecumenical Perspective, John H. Tietjen Jan 1974

Theological Education In Ecumenical Perspective, John H. Tietjen

Concordia Theological Monthly

On Sept. 9, 1974, Eden Theological Seminary, St. Louis, Mo., presented the degree of doctor of divinity to Dr. Tietjen. The following speech was his response to the honor conferred upon him.


Some Concerns About Current Confessional Statements, Horst W. Jordan Jan 1974

Some Concerns About Current Confessional Statements, Horst W. Jordan

Concordia Theological Monthly

Luther on occasion compared the world with a drunken peasant who when he was shoved into the saddle on the one side toppled out of it on the other so that it was impossible to help him, do what one would. The history of theology tempts one to use the same comparison. "What venturesome statements have men permitted themselves to make, statements that ultimately had to lead to disaster because the attempt was made to present a truth that was correct enough in itself but which was taught in a one-sided, undialectic form, with complete contempt and disapproval of its …


Angel And Evangel, Jaroslav Pelikan Jan 1974

Angel And Evangel, Jaroslav Pelikan

Concordia Theological Monthly

A sermon preached at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo., on the Eve of Saint Michael and All Angels, Sept. 28, 1974, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the ordination of John Tietjen.


The Concept Of Time In The Old Testament, Hans Walter Wolff Jan 1974

The Concept Of Time In The Old Testament, Hans Walter Wolff

Concordia Theological Monthly

In the Old Testament we find abundant evidence for the view that man lives out his life within time, that he lives within times that change. By examining characteristic Old Testament texts, we shall attempt to gain a picture of how the Old Testament's understanding of time relates to its understanding of man.


Homiletics, Donald R. Haase, John D. Coran, Werner K. Boos Jan 1974

Homiletics, Donald R. Haase, John D. Coran, Werner K. Boos

Concordia Theological Monthly

Homiletics:


Book Review. - Literatur, Richard Klann Jan 1974

Book Review. - Literatur, Richard Klann

Concordia Theological Monthly

Book Review. - Literatur


Trance: From Africa To Pentecostalism, David M. Beckmann Jan 1974

Trance: From Africa To Pentecostalism, David M. Beckmann

Concordia Theological Monthly

The author, a student at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, studied indigenous religious movements in Asia and Africa during 1969-70 as a John Courtney Murray Fellow of Yale University. His book about indigenous churches in Ghana, Eden Revival is in the process of publication. Observations of indigenous Afro-American churches in the Caribbean during 1971 were made possible by a partial grant from the World Mission Institute of Concordia Seminary.


The Yahwist Looks At Abraham, Ralph W. Klein Jan 1974

The Yahwist Looks At Abraham, Ralph W. Klein

Concordia Theological Monthly

While the Bible is recognized as God's Word for all rimes, each of its writings was originally addressed to specific people at specific times in history who faced immediate crises and/or opportunities. Obviously, the better we understand those original circumstances, the better we will understand precisely what was being said.


God's Word In His Mission, William J. Danker Jan 1974

God's Word In His Mission, William J. Danker

Concordia Theological Monthly

Like it or not-and most of them don't-Christian lay people of all denominations find themselves drawn into a struggle splitting the worldwide Christian church into two opposing camps. How much of the Bible is to be understood literally, and how much of it is properly understood to be picture language? Is the Bible to be regarded entirely as a piece of human literature subject at all points to correction by modern research? Or is it exclusively a divine creation? Must it be presupposed that when man's historical, geographical, or scientific knowledge conflicts with this book, it is always 20th-century man …