[Address, 1972] The theme once more: “The Gospel as Good News in Today’s World.” That theme prompts four quick questions: World? In? New? Good? (If you have a craving for acronyms, as I do, then think of the four-letter word “wing”, W-I-N-G: W is for “world,” I is for “in,” N is for “new,” G is for “good.”) …
How Free are the American Churches? A Clue from Martin Luther King
Robert W. Bertram [Printed in Sonderdruck aus BEGEGNUNG. Beitrage zu einer Hermeneutik des theologischen Gesprachs. Herausgegeben von Max Seckler, Otto H, Pensch, Johannes Brosseder, Wolfhart Pannenberg. Gratz: Verlag Styria, 1972.] In Germany recently a conference of students, including an impressive representation of Marxist-Leninists from The New Left, confronted the American guest speaker with the question: How free …
A Theologian’s Perspective on Economic Activities in the Christian World Mission
Robert W. Bertram [Address, St. Louis, Missouri, September, 1971] ABSTRACT Not just asking can individual Christians operate in their private economic roles as Christians but can the Christian community itself engage in economic activities in the Christian world mission, might that community support itself by profit-making activities without compromising itself for that very mission? To raise such a …
SUB IUDICIO NOSTRO
Robert W. Bertram [Address, Fourth World Congress of Luther Research, St. Louis, Missouri, August 26, 1971.] If these International Congresses for Luther Research continue to be held every five years, then the next one would occur in 1976, the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Karl Holl. Who of this century’s Lutherforscher deserves commemorating more than he? …
One Covenant or Two? An Interview with Dr. Edward Schroeder and Dr. Theodore Ludwig
[Printed in The Lighter, Student Journal of Valparaiso University, Indiana, May 1971.] The Lighter asked Pat Keifert to interview Dr. Theodore Ludwig and Dr. Edward Schroeder about their understanding of Delbert Hillers’ Covenant: The History of a Biblical Idea (John Hopkins Press, 1969). The hope was that in bringing together a specialist in Old Testament and one …
An Argument for Academic Theology at VU
Edward H. Schroeder [Printed in THE TORCH, Vol. 63:20. Jan. 29, 1971 Valparaiso, IN] ABSTRACT A consensus community stands behind the required study of academic theology at Valparaiso University consisting finally of the holy Christian church and what that community considers important as skills and knowledge for human life. As these skills and knowledge do not emerge naturally …
DOING THEOLOGY IN RELATION TO MISSION
Robert W. Bertram [Address, 1971. Later expanded and published in “How a Lutheran Does Theology,” in Lutheran-Episcopal Dialogue: Report and Recommendations, 73-87, 1981] I. 1. Theology, says the assignment, must relate to “mission.” But aren’t the two, theology and mission, too far apart for that? Isn’t theology here, here at the seminary? And isn’t mission out there, out …
The Role of Women in the Church of Jesus Christ
By Edward H. Schroeder [Printed in Advance, Vol. 17:7 (Oct 1970).] In considering the role of women in the church, it seems to me that the issue is a threefold one. First, how to use the Scriptures – and especially St. Paul’s statement about women in the public work of the church – in understanding the place …
The Role of Women in the Church of Jesus Christ
By Edward H. Schroeder [Originally published in Lutheran Deaconess. Reprinted in Advance, October, 1970.] In considering the role of women in the church, it seems to me that the issue is a threefold one. First, how to use the Scriptures – and especially St. Paul’s statements about women in the public work of the church – in …
Models for Ministry in a Secular Age
Edward H. Schroeder [Outlines for four presentations at Sierra-Nevada Pastoral Conference, Jan. 27-29, 1970] Presentation #1: A Proposed Lutheran Model (My Own) Arising from the Lutheran Confessional Tradition Introductory Reflections: Systematic theology probes for the “sufficient grounds” supporting any doctrine. The sufficient grounds of the confessional doctrine about the church. Article 7 & 8 of the Augsburg …