Colleagues, Five years ago today, March 13, 2003 Bob Bertram died. Bob is the father of Crossings, the patriarch. Y’all know that. But now it looks as though he’s become a Crossings grandfather. How so? Well, if we designate you folks on the listserve (many of you his actual students) as the “children,” there’s now evidence that from …
The Augsburg Aha! — Church and Secular Authority (AC 14-16, 23, 26-28)
Colleagues, Here’s the next-to-last installment of class handouts that Ron Neustadt and I are using with students in Springfield, Illinois for the course on the Augsburg Confession of 1530. One more still to come: Human Will and Human Works (AC 6, 17-21). And after that the take-home Final Exam! Peace and Joy! Ed Schroeder CHURCH AND SECULAR AUTHORITY …
Robert W. Bertram “A Time for Confessing”
Colleagues, ThTh 507 is a shameless promotion piece for Bob Bertram’s book. For your sake, not for his. Two weeks from today is aleady the fifth anniversary of his death. His royalties are a done deal. So hustling his book is not for him. Here’s why to buy. What Wm. B. Eerdmans has published in “A Time for …
The Augsburg Aha! — “Sacraments”
Colleagues, Here’s the next installment of class handouts that Ron Neustadt and I are using with students in Springfield, Illinois for the course on Lutheran Confessional Theology. From the three previous postings of this material that were sent your way, at least one response has come back each time saying “send more.” So with that groundswell I’ll continue …
The Augsburg Aha! — Class Session #3. “Church and Ministry”
Colleagues, I’ve just been alerted to a Luther bash coming up next weekend at Northwestern University (of all places!) in Evanston (north-Chicago suburb) Illinois. Big, big, big. Scads of Luther gurus according to the PR–nine of them from overseas. The Global Luther: Reconsidering the Contributions of Martin Luther An International Conference February 21-23, 2008 I’ve got this Confessions …
Some More Thoughts on the Augsburg Aha! – The Augsburg Confession Itself–Class Session #2.
Colleagues, Here is the second installment of “Lutheran Confessional Heritage,” the Ron-and-Ed Show–Ron Neustadt and yours truly–running from January through March, 2008 in Springfield, Illinois, a class for students of the Central/Southern Illinois Synod of the ELCA. Peace and joy! Ed Schroeder Theology of the Lutheran Confessions–Class Session #2. Lesson Plan Opening Devotions Review of Session One: “What …
Pardon My Imprisonment – Anticipating Ash Wednesday.
Colleagues, Though tempted to focus ThTh 503 on the theology of President Bush’s “State of the Union” address earlier this week, I resisted that concupiscent (?) yen. Or so I thought. But then I thought about what all might not be said. And pretty soon . . . . Well, here it is. [Next time (maybe) “Some More …
Some Thoughts on the Augsburg Aha! – The Augsburg Confession Itself
Colleagues: A funny thing happened on the way to ThTh 500. While I was not confecting anything for that half-thousandth posting because 16 of you were sending in the puzzle pieces for number 500, I got a phone call. “Can you–at this eleventh hour–teach a course on Lutheran Confessions at Springfield, Illinois (100 miles up north from St. …
Lord’s Supper Liturgies
Colleagues, Last week’s gift from a bunch of you supplying the celebrative text for the 500th edition of ThTh is still being “processed” by yours truly. Count it all joy! is the apostolic adage that’s fitting. The presence of the word promise (8 times–I counted!) in your prose was kudos enough to commemorate half-a-thousand postings. Hype tossed in …
Ed Schroeder’s Thursday Theologies: The Gospel, God’s Plus for Us
As you search the digital tracks of 500 weeks of Thursday Theologies, you will see that not one is less than 3 printed pages. That means that Ed Schroeder has treated us to 1,500-plus pages of literature over the past 10 years. Emphasis on the plus. Also, you will see that there is no index of the Thursday …