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Thinking about Lutheran Evangelism
The Metropolitan Chicago Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) sponsors a fine online journal entitled “Let’s Talk,” which is a venue for Chicago-area pastors, theologians, and...
Ranking and Cultural Attention
The season is upon us where culture junkies such as myself become enjoyably worked up over various year-end “Best of 2011” lists – best album, movie, novel, etc. Adam...
Luther on Coins, Pouches, and a Child’s Faith
Much recent Luther scholarship has focused upon his incisive use of economic metaphors to describe the (deceptively) profound daily actions of Christian believers. Over at Lutheran Forum , Sarah...
New Translation of Writings by Erik Peterson
The 20th-century German theologian Erik Peterson, whose conversion from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism was the occasion for a great deal of ecclesiological soul-searching after the second World War, has...
Pelagius Redux
On the plus side: the Atlanta Diocese of the Episcopal Church is taking on a substantive theological question concerning the patristic heritage of the church. On the negative side:...
Lackluster Universalism
The blogosphere has rightly settled down from the fevered discussions on universalism occasioned earlier this year by, among other things, Rob Bell’s writings. However, distance has its advantages. In...
Mainline Decline in Generational Terms
The bit of revisionist history (summarized by Scott McLemee) concerning the decline of mainline denominations in the U.S. that David Hollinger offers will, I suspect, not be overly surprising...
“The Rules Sometimes Aren’t Enough”
Theologians working in the key of Hans Urs von Balthasar or, more recently, David Bentley Hart have come to a renewed appreciation of the deep links between truth and...
