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Encomium for an Evangelical Catholic

Carl E. Braaten

Robert Jenson was my closest friend and collaborator for sixty years. We first met when we were both students at Luther Seminary in St. Paul in the early 1950s,...

A Harvest of Evangelical Theology

Carl E. Braaten

Holy Scripture. Revelation, Inspiration, and Interpretation. By Donald G. Bloesch InterVarsity Press, 384 pages, $24 .99 Theology for the Community of God By Stanley J. Grenz Broadman & Holman,...

God in Public Life: Rehabilitating the “Orders of Creation”

Carl E. Braaten

The intent of this essay is a rehabilitation of the Lutheran idea of the “orders of creation.” That might seem to many an impossible task, something like trying to...