A Scholar’s Update

Co-missioners, Dare we call him a Crossings scholar? The church historian Kurt K. Hendel launched his teaching career in 1973 at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and joined Christ Seminary—Seminex in February, 1974. When that school dissolved in 1983, he was among the majority of faculty members who found a new teaching home at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. …

Announcing Edmund Schlink’s “Ecumenical Dogmatics”

Co-missioners, Back in the 1970’s, the nascent libraries of America’s earnestly Lutheran seminarians were likely to include two books by the German theologian Edmund Schlink. One discussed the Lutheran confessions. The other focused on the doctrine of baptism. Both had been issued in translation by Concordia Publishing House which, for a time, had shown some interest in introducing the best …

A Review of David Bentley Hart’s Atheist Delusions

  Co-missioners, The Old Testament reading for next Sunday, Isaiah 35:1-10, will invite us to consider the world’s unfolding history from God’s point of view. This makes today’s offering especially apt. Our thanks to George Heider, Retired Professor of Theology at Valparaiso University, for blessing us with it. Peace and Joy, The Crossings Community __________________________________________________________________ Who’s Fooling Whom?: Reflections on …