- Faith as Surrender (Revisited)
Colleagues,ThTh 328 challenged the claim in the September issue of the ELCA magazine THE LUTHERAN that one fundamental facet of Christian faith is surrender. That posting elicited some response which went out last week as ThTh 329. One of those responses was this:
6. From a Lutheran University prof (math and English lit.)– ...
- Responses received to the last two postings: “9-11 on the Third Anniversary” (ThTh 327) and “THE LUTHERAN surrenders ” (ThTh 328).
Peace & Joy!
Ed Schroeder
“9-11 on the Third Anniversary” (ThTh 327)THREE NOT COMPLETELY HAPPY CAMPERS
ELCA pastor, former student–Right on – as always! The diagnosis on America is absolutely correct, although one I am reasonably sure will never usher from the mouth of a politician! However, it raised a question I have wanted to ask you for ...
- THE LUTHERAN surrenders
An Open Letter to David L. Miller Editor, THE LUTHERAN, “the magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America”
Dear David,This one is serious. Seriously wrong. To wit, your plea for “the beauty of surrender . . . holy surrender . . . surrendered lives” as central to Christian faith.
Not so. ...
- 9-11 on the Third Anniversary
Colleagues,Just got home from a week in Barnes Hospital on Wednesday shortly before sunset. And good timing too, since both of my primary physicans–diabetologist and cardiologist–are observant Jews (one reformed, one orthodox, both “keep kosher”) and with yesterday’s sunset Rosh Hashanah began. Despite their genuine TLC for me over the years, they’d be taking time-out ...
- Missiology at the IAMS 2004 International Meeting – An Elephant in the Living Room, Part 2
Colleagues,
Today’s posting is the second half of my retrospective of the Eleventh Quadrennial Conference in August of the International Association for Mission Studies in Port Dickson, Malaysia, just south of the capital, Kuala Lampur. If “Gospel A”and “Gospel B” seem confusing, refer to last week’s posting of the first half.I’m currently in Barnes Hospital ...
- Missiology at the IAMS 2004 International Meeting – An Elephant in the Living Room
Colleagues,
Marie and I have been back for a week from our second stint this year in Southeast Asia. After our 4-month gig in Singapore March – June, this time was just one month, mostly in Malaysia. First week was the Eleventh Quadrennial Conference of the International Association for Mission Studies in Port Dickson, Malaysia, ...
- Deconstructing the Concept of MISSIO DEI “in the Light of the Gospel.”
Colleagues,
God willing, we’re to return to St. Louis on this very day, August 26, from a month-long stint mostly in Malaysia. At the Eleventh Quadrennial Conference of the International Association for Mission Studies, meeting in Malaysia the first week in August, I presented this paper. Not all of my paper for IAMS XI will be ...
- Is Robert Gagnon, the New Glue for Linking “Conservatives” in ELCA and LCMS?
Colleagues,Pastors both in the LCMS and ELCA who consider themselves conservative are rallying around Robert Gagnon as their theological guru to fight the liberals in both churches on the hot potato of homosexuality. And Gagnon isn’t even a Lutheran. Even more amazing is that his lenses for reading the Bible are anti-Luther. But he knows ...
- Some Reverie Brought on by Renate Bethge’s Bonhoeffer Book
Colleagues,Reviewing Renate Bethge’s book last week got old tapes turning. Here’s some anecdotage to go along with my dotage.
Reverie #1
Renate is a personal friend. We met her and her late husband Eberhard when they visited Seminex a quarter century ago. Both of them were guest lecturers. Eberhard, as you may know, catalyzed the Bonhoeffer boom ...
- Renate’s Bethge’s Book on Bonhoeffer – A Review
Colleagues:Here’s a new Bonhoeffer book for summer reading–or for any other season.
Renate Bethge. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER. A BRIEF LIFE. Transl. K.C.Hanson. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004. 88 pp. Hardcover. $12.00.
It’s short. It’s different. For one thing the author, Renate Bethge (nee Schleicher), is Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s ...
