Our own Thorny Circle of Suffering and Christ’s Breakthrough Lent’s 40 days through the Prism of Siegfried Reinhardt’s Art by Edward H. Schroeder Siegfried Reinhardt -“Christ’s Seven Last Words from the Cross and His Resurrection” 1952. [Printed 1996 as a Lenten Devotion Booklet by Creative Communications for the Parish (St. Louis). Reprinted with permission.] [Reinhardt lived …
A History of Crossings
Robert W. Bertram [Printed in the Foreword in Gospel Crossings, volume one, edited by Michael Hoy. Also printed in the Crossings Newsletter, #43, Michaelmas 1996.] ABSTRACT Recalling at the height of anecdotage, Crossings had its inception with early influencers whose themes crossed worldly questions with theology. Through University of Chicago graduate studies where a dissertation crossed Luther with …
Charismatic Pneumatology
Edward H. Schroeder [A response to the charismatic movement at the Mekane Jesus Seminary, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 17, 1995] Our search for a “Spirit-test” in Dip. Ill doctrine class started with studying Peter’s Pentecost sermon. Our Title: “Hearing the Healing” [The “holy” Spirit is the “healing” Spirit ala ML’s 2 catechisms. So the initial problem of the …
The Right to Be Responsible
Robert W. Bertram 1) Human rights nave acquired such compelling moral force in today’s world that their rightness is recognized as virtually self-evident – without their first needing to be justified, say, in theology or natural law. 2) In fact, so ethically uncontestable have human rights become that even oppressors, at least those who feel constrained to …
Ministry
Robert W. Bertram [Paper prepared for Baptism, Eucharist, & Ministry, Faith and Order Commission World Council of Churches, undated.] 1. The Calling of the Whole People of God 1. In a broken world God calls the whole of humanity to become God’s people. For this purpose God chose Israel and then spoke in a unique and decisive …
Problem of Evil? Or Problem With God?
Robert W. Bertram [Outline for a presentation at Augustana University College, Camrose, Alberta, Canada, 1995] Session One: Hume on the Problem of Evil: “Why Do You Call Him God?” 1) To be read in unison, please: “If God is able to prevent evil but does not, he must be malevolent. If God is willing to prevent evil …
Depth in the Faith
Robert W. Bertram [Published in LSTC Epistle, Fall 1994. Reprinted with permission.] Nobody’s faith can afford to be skin deep. So I’m not saying that church professionals need faith more than other folks do. But I’m tempted to. Nor is that what the ELCA means when it declares in the report on theological education that, first of …
Relocating Authority: A Perennial Family Issue
Edward H. Schroeder [An article for The Changing Face of the Family (Adelaide: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute, 1994) DBI Study Booklet No. 20, pp.54-58)] At this end of the 20th century in the society of the western world the overall crisis in authority is a truism. It’s not so much that people evade taking authority–although that is also …
“Who Suffers in the Trinity? Theopaschitism in Theology”
Edward H. Schroeder [Presentation #5 in a series titled “Personal Relationships and the Trinity” at St. George’s Episcopal Church, Adelaide, Australia, July 1, 1994] An odd question. Yet the Trinity is an odd god. Who cares about God suffering? Who gets any benefit? From the 3rd to the 6th century the “Who Suffers in the Trinity?” question …
A Case from AC 28 for Women in the Pastoral Office Today
Edward H. Schroeder [Luther Seminary Faculty Forum Presentation June 1, 1994, Adelaide, Australia] 1. Instructive is AC 28 on the power of the bishops. 2. The issue in AC 28 is the confusion of the powers on the part of the bishops of that day. 3. The powers being fused were the power of the church (later …
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