Co-missioners, We send you the second half of Fred Niedner’s presentation at the Seminex event in Chicago this past April. You’ll find it stunning. See, not least, Fred’s summation in his second-last paragraph of the Church’s role in the world …
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BlogThursday Theology
Thursday Theology: “Witnessing Christ”: Fred Niedner on the Fiftieth Anniversary of Seminex (Part One)
by Fred NiednerCo-missioners, Fred Niedner earned an STM degree in 1973 at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, his theological alma mater. Two months later a majority of his teachers would find themselves condemned as intolerable by a convention of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. …
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BlogThursday Theology
Thursday Theology: Fred Niedner on Preaching that Actually Works (Part 2)
by Fred NiednerCo-missioners, Today we send you the second half of Fred Niedner’s essay on “the sweet swap.” And again we add our hope that you’ll be able to join us at the end of January to hear Fred in person along …
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BlogThursday Theology
Thursday Theology: Fred Niedner on Preaching that Actually Works (Part 1)
by Fred NiednerCo-missioners, For the past six weeks we’ve been reviewing the core insights of the Lutheran reformation as presented by Philip Melanchthon in Article IV of the Apology, his defense of the Augsburg Confession. Now our focus shifts to the matter …
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Crossing in Silence Crossings Conference Address Our Lady of Snows Retreat Center, Belleville, IL Frederick Niedner, 28 January 2019 “’To know God means to suffer God,’ says a wise old theological saying. We suffer God when we experience his absence, …
