About Robert W. Bertram

by Michael Hoy Most of the works by Robert W. Bertram listed below are available on-line and may be found at the following url address: https://crossings.org/archive/bob. Those resources are listed alphabetically. The bibliography below is the most complete to date…

PDF:  A Time for Confessing Is a Time for Liberating

by Michael Hoy Zion Lutheran Church Wausau, Wisconsin with Response to Michael Hoy by Robert W. Bertram   In an essay published a decade ago, Robert W. (Bob) Bertram comments on “How a Lutheran Does Theology.” “Lutheran theology begins where…

a response by Paul Rorem to Robert W. Bertram’s Putting the Nature of God Into Language: Naming the Trinity May 18. 1987   The Style 1. There is nothing like a Bertram exposition…. circling thcenter, fending off misunderstandings, making words…

 Edward H. Schroeder   The Crossings Community, St. Louis, Missouri Bob Bertram became a Liberation theologian in the course of the Missouri Synod controversy of the 70s. Yet neither he nor anyone else noticed that until some years later. Even…

 Edward H. Schroeder The Crossings Community, St. Louis, Missouri ABSTRACT Becoming a Liberation theologian through the Missouri Synod controversy of the 1970s, Bob Bertram brought his distinctive clarity about the sola fide into Seminex’s give-and-take with Liberation theologians from around…

  The “moderate” confessional movement in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod is not so much “disspirited” as “dispersed.” This is one central theme from an address to the 1978 Assembly of Evangelical Lutherans in Mission by the Rev. Dr. Robert Bertram,…