By Robert Bertram [Published in The Cresset, 38 (December, 1984): 4-6. Reprinted with permission.] I. Allocating Value Authoritatively (Propositions 1-20) 1) The assigned topic reads, “Preaching on Controversial Social Issues.” Let us, for reasons of shorthand refer to that as “political preaching” — but not only for reasons of shorthand. 2) All good preaching is tacitly political, just …
Luther and the Liberation of the Laity: Part II: The Freedom They Employ
Edward H. Schroeder [The Miller Lectures, Valparaiso University, Oct. 23-24, 1984] Freedom is: Heading home On the heels of Jesus By way of the slums Your old neighborhood Unintimidated by the slumlords But also warmly respectful of them Pausing to explain (in case they should ask) Why you can be both And so can they. Those words …
Luther and the Liberation of the Laity: Part I: The Liberation They Enjoy
(Some help for today’s still largely oppressed majority in the church from Martin Luther’s Commentary on I Peter) Edward H. Schroeder [The Miller Lectures, Valparaiso University, Oct. 23-24, 1984] This lectureship is in honor of the Rev. Jacob Miller, pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Ft. Wayne and one of the prime movers 60 years …
Baptism and Confession
Edward H. Schroeder [Printed in Trinity Seminary Review, Vol. 6, Number 1 (Spring 1984). Reprinted with permission.] ABSTRACT The Reformation’s inaugural call to sacramental repentance and exhortation to daily repentance (First of the 95 Theses), was a call to return to the power of Baptism, and the “same-saying” (confessing) response of confessing sin and confessing faith which that …
Theological Reflections on Artificial Intelligence
Edward H. Schroeder [ITEST Conference, St. Louis, MO, 1984. Reprinted with permission] [Edward H. Schroeder is professor of systematic and historical theology at Christ Seminary-Seminex. An ordained clergyman, he has taught theology for 27 years both at Valparaiso (Indiana) University and at the Lutheran seminary in St. Louis. His fields of specialization are the theology and history of …
REDEEMING HEFNER’S “DISCERNING THE TIMES”
1) While I acknowledge that the critics of Phil Hefner’s “Discerning the Times” do have grounds for their criticisms, I want to rehearse those criticisms only in order to draw a reverse conclusion from them, that is, to argue that the criticisms need not follow from what Phil says. In other words, I would like to redeem what …
Chicago Theologians on BEM
Robert W. Bertram [Address, December, 1983. Published in Journal of Ecumenical Studies 21 (1984): 64- 70. Also published in The Search for Visible Unity: Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry. Edited by J. Gros. New York: Pilgrim Press, 1984. Reprinted with permission.] Seeing that the NCC’s BEM conference in Chicago last October was co-hosted by an ecumenical cooperative of …
From Reflection to Responsible Living: Where Do We Go From Here
Robert W. Bertram April 27, 1983 [Transcribed and edited from an original tape of an address given at Valparaiso University] It was not until the introduction I was given just now that I realized how prosaic my life has been, how rut-like, and therefore how impossible this morning’s assignment is. I have fretted some, I am not …
Confessing the Faith of the Church
Robert W. Bertram [Address at The New Church Debate, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago, Illinois, Feb. 7, 1983. Later published in The New Church Debate: Issues Facing American Lutheranism, 123-137. Edited by Carl E. Braaten. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1983. Reprinted with permission] Summary. So hazardous is confessing, as in those fateful “times for confessing,” “the time of trial,” …
A Baptismal Crossing
Robert W. Bertram [Printed in Currents in Theology and Mission 9, No. 6 (December, 1982): 344-353. Reprinted with permission.] Who in the Old Testament reading of Isaiah is “you”? “You,” to make a long story short, is you—you, the reader of this page, and I. A long story that is, from the original “you” of this Isaianic song …
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