Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "ELCA Members Are Intrepidly Holding the Bishop's F...":
Among Lutherans, Biblical study has always been done best in community. When the community explores the Word, sometimes long-held understandings are renewed. Other times, they yield to a new understanding, which is not simply a recent or rare occurrence.
Diaprax - Hegelian Dialectic in action. The method used to achieve acceptance of the New World Order Religion under the Antichrist.
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GJ - I will now explore selected ELCA seminary sites to show what they brag about - their new insights into Biblical scholarship. The images and words will just be a taste, albeit a bad taste, of what they offer. Feel free to explore the websites on your own, remembering that they glory in their shame, as Paul warned in Romans 1.
Wartburg Seminary
EXPERTISE:
Dr. Bailey has extensive knowledge in the following categories and is able to serve as a resource on:
- Biblical studies, with special interest in the Gospels and Paul's Letters. [more narrowly, the Sermon on the Mount & Pauline Practices as Models for Today's Church]
- The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- Homosexuality and the Bible
Co-Editor, with William A. Beardslee, New Testament Interpretation from a Process Perspective, Journal of the American Academy of Religion 47/1 (1979).
Co-author, with John B. Cobb, Jr., and Barry A. Woodbridge, “Introduction: Process Thought and New Testament Exegesis,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 47 (1979): 21-30. Abstract: Few effective contacts have been made between recent process thought and New Testament studies. Work on one side seems little affected by work on the other. Partly responsible for this alienation, which is indicative of the relationship between contemporary theology and biblical studies in general, is the direction that biblical studies took under the leadership of Rudolf Bultmann, for whom empirical and socio-historical concerns were not germane to faith. Equally responsible is the direction that process theology took under the influence of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, who saw their task less as the explication of specifically Christian tradition and experience, and more as the elucidation of the general features of reality. Recently a body of literature in Old and New Testament studies that attempt to bridge this gap has been developed. Whatever importance the interaction between biblical studies and process thought may be for biblical scholarship, it is vital for process theology.
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| Draft Resolution on "Ending Hunger as a Core Conviction" (2004). Downloadable in Adobe PDF or in MSWord formats. |
| Many Members, Yet One Body: Committed Same-Gender Relationships and the Mission of the Church. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress (2004) |
| Give Us This Day: A Lutheran Proposal for Ending World Hunger. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress (2003) |
Wartburg Faculty Expertise - also includes theology
GETTYSBURG SEMINARY ANNOUNCES 2011 SUSPENSION OF GHOST TOUR ACTIVITY ON CAMPUS
(November 1, 2010) The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg announced today that all permission for ghost tour activity on the Seminary’s campus will be suspended as of April 1, 2011.No ghost tour groups will be allowed on seminary property as of that date until further notice, according to seminary staff. The decision stems from the prospect of construction of an historic walking pathway on the Seminary Ridge campus beginning in the spring of 2011. Conditions for an evening and night-time touring of the 52 acre campus will no longer be safe for visitors once construction begins.
Because of the potential for additional rehabilitation construction work in connection with Schmucker Hall beginning sometime thereafter, the Seminary is not announcing an expected date of an end to the suspension. “This is a simple matter of safety” said John Spangler, executive assistant to the seminary president. “Common sense says that the construction of the pathway will make it impossible to welcome those night time visitors,” he added, “but we believe this gives adequate notice to those few groups who have been using the space.”
The Seminary also noted that it does not sponsor or endorse the content of the ghost tours, and that the graduate and professional theological school does not receive compensation for the use of the campus grounds.
