Carl E. Braaten

Robert W. Jenson is by all odds the greatest American Lutheran theologian ever. Continue Reading »

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, 890 pages, $39.99 Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine By Wayne Grudem Zondervan, . . . . Continue Reading »

It is a longstanding commonplace in Christian thought that Protestantism distinguishes its moral theology from that of Roman Catholicism by its rejection of natural law. The idea of natural law has long formed the spinal column of Catholic social teaching. Modern Protestantism, by contrast, has no . . . . Continue Reading »

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 raise the Titanic. It is certainly a dangerous task, because it draws one into an area of Lutheran theological ethics that some . . . . Continue Reading »