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Edward Schroeder [For information on Elert’s life and thought I recommend the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Elert —————- A Loooong Introduction Asking an 85-year-old professor to give a lecture–on any topic–is dangerous. Bob Bertram’s quote: When you’re in your dotage, you often slip into anecdotage. Here’s some anecdotal stuff. I was Elert’s student at the University of Erlangen in Germany …

Steven C. Kuhl   I. Introduction 1. The title of my talk, “The Holy Spirit in the Age of Pentecostalism,” is meant to say that the topic of the Holy Spirit is a big topic today for many Christians and academic theologians chiefly because of the global strength of the Pentecostal Movement. It is not to say …

By Gary W. Teske   I like the title you chose for this presentation, “The Holy Spirit and the Unholy Spirits.” I don’t want to sound like some semantics parsing politicians from years gone by, but it seems to me that the first task is to determine what is meant by “unholy spirits,” and then see if the …

 Crossings International Conference on Law, Gospel and the Holy Spirit Dr. Amy C. Schifrin 1/26/16   15 If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. 17 This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because …

  Health Care for the Dying: Reflections/Examples of the Meaning and Challenge of Being a Christian and a Doctor Today   I want to begin by thanking you for the invitation to return to this gathering which I attended so many years ago, sometime in the early ‘90s. I believe they were called SALT Conferences at that …

By Toshihiro Takamura Pastor of the Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (Ph.D. student)   1. Introduction Presenting on preaching in the Japanese context is a challenging topic, for my experience is in reality merely that of one pastor who has been ordained for only five years. Thus, I do not pretend to know everything …

Keynote Address for the Sixth International Crossings Conference at Belleville, Illinois, on 25 January 2016 by Jerome Burce   I. Gospel First: my own word of warm welcome to this Sixth International Conference of the Crossings Community, where we’ll continue an exploration that began in 2007, at our first conference, when the topic was the Gospel itself—Honest-to-God …

 Rob Saler What it Looks Like When it Goes Right On May 24, 1996, a group of Islamic terrorists announced that they had “slit the throats” of seven French Trappist monks whom they had kidnapped from the monastery of Tibherine in Algeria and held as hostages for two months. Prior to the kidnapping, the superior of the monastery, …