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  • Historic Episcopate–Another (once underground) Voice
    Colleagues: MeLinda Morton studied theology at Seminex in the early 1980s. After seminary she went into the Air Force and served as an operational AF officer for ten years: “I did some flying, served as a Minuteman II missile officer, and spent my last three years in the space program.” Her Minuteman II service, she says, ...
  • Theology of the Cross or Theology of the Resurrection?
    Colleagues, Every Friday noon during the current academic year Robin Morgan and I have joined a handful of other folks at St. Louis (Jesuit) University for a brown-bag lunch hour at the Theology Department. Robin’s in a doctoral program there. One item of her program has her working with “Theology Digest,” a department publication. At the ...
  • Relocating Authority in the Family
    Colleagues, I’ve been afflicted by some “bug” for most of the past week, so my intended piece for ThTh44 didn’t get finished. So I’ve gone to the “barrel” for what follows. It’s an essay I was asked to do for a publication in Australia when I ...
  • Response to Luther Research
    Colleagues, The text ...
  • Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son in the Old and New Testaments: A Jewish Scholar’s Report
    THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF THE BELOVED SON. The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity, Jon D. Levenson. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 1993. xiv, 257. The sub-title–child sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity–is enough to get your attention, even if it is “transformed!” But I had never even heard of the title, let alone the author, until ...
  • Two responses re: The Vatican and Me
    This past week we received these two responses to Thursday Theology #37, my piece called “The Vatican and Me”. The first is a letter to Ed about me from Lou Smith. The second is a sermon by Carolyn Schneider. Somehow I’m sure there’ll be more discussion about this topic after you’ve read these two pieces. ...
  • Christian Callings: Care & Redemption of Creation
    Colleagues, Here follows the text of a presentation I made this morning (March 11) to the Lutheran Professional Church Workers Conference of St. Louis. Not everyone of the 30-plus people attending was pleased. So proceed with a grain of salt. Peace & Joy! Ed Schroeder Christian Calling: “The Care and Redemption of all that you have made” Near the ...
  • Augsburg Confession & Luther’s Catechisms
    Colleagues, I’m coming to the end of the Winter Quarter in teaching 15 students about the Lutheran Confessions here in St. Louis. The course is an offering of the Lutheran School of Theology here in town, a ministry of the Metro St. Louis Coalition of ELCA congregations. For the upcoming Easter term the coalition asks for ...
  • Union With Christ
    Colleagues, In case you’ve not yet heard, there’s a new look, a new book, in Luther research. Here’s a review of it FYI. Peace and Joy!  Ed Schroeder Union With Christ. The New Finnish Interpretation of Luther, Carl E. Braaten & Robert W. Jenson, eds. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans. 1998. ix, 182, paper. . Every few years the world’s Luther scholars get together ...
  • The Vatican and me
    In the February 1999 issue, “The Lutheran” ran a one paragraph article on page 42: “The Vatican, in a ‘Final Declaration’ statement, warned that the world is facing a crisis in faith provoked in part by the feminist doctrine that men and women are absolute equals. ‘Generally throughout the world, there is evidence of a ...