ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Extra Time for Cinnamon Coffee Tomorrow Morning - Move Clock Back - End of Daylight Savings
Bishop Suspends Zion pastors
Bishop suspends Zion pastors
CLEAR LAKE — Two pastors of Clear Lake’s largest church have refused to leave their jobs despite an order from their bishop.
Bishop Steven C. Ullestad of the Northeastern Iowa Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), said the Rev. Dean Hess and the Rev. Derik C. Yarian were notified of their removal on Oct. 28.
“... You are now to function as a layperson ... your ordained status is in suspension,” said Ullestad in separate letters to the two men.
Both Hess and Church Council President Mark Shepp declined to comment Friday.
Pastors holding dual memberships — in this case, to both the ELCA and Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ — are not allowed by the ELCA.
The Zion church council has set another vote, this one at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 14, to decide whether it should leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America for good.
Learn All About Perish Assistance from the DMin Project, Trinity Deerfield
http://www.tren.com/e-docs/search_w_preview.cfm?p006-1024
Developing A Parish (sic) Consulting Service For The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
| School: | | Trinity Evangelical Divinity School |
| Author: | | HEINS, Ronald K. D.MIN. 1998 |
| Pages: | | 241 |
| Order #: | | 006-1024 |
He was the choreographer of Perish Assistance, according to his paper. Paul Calvin Kelm and Wayne (no CG in WELS) Mueller are prominent from the beginning.
I suggest someone buy this for $15 and save it to a hard drive before it is de-rezzed or the cat ate it.
http://www.charis.wlc.edu/about/
Charis Board of Directors
Rev. Ron Heins, Executive DirectorRev. Dr. Mark Braun, Chairman
Mr. Cliff Buelow, Director
Mr. Bruce Eberle, Director
Rev. Mark Jeske, Treasurer
Dr. Timothy Kriewall, Director ex officio
Prof. James Rahn, Secretary
Mr. Todd Witte, Director ex officio
Connect the dots, o innocent lambs, led to the slaughter, fleeced and whipped to a fare-thee-well.
Imagine if laymen all over the synod could equally document and describe doctrinal error as you did. Could they be ignored for too long?
Tim Niedfeldt said:
Imagine if laymen all over the synod could equally document and describe doctrinal error as you did. Could they be ignored for too long?
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GJ - Tim, the letter has been ignored for one year. Having letters written is a method for defusing conflict and moving the process along.
The people in Cape Girardeau knew Tabor was an adulterous pastor. They went to WELS Circuit Pastor Roger Zehms about it. He said, "Write a letter." LCR members wrote letters. After Tabor's wife was murdered by his mistress, aided and abetted by Tabor himself, the letters disappeared from his file. Jeb S. told me at lunch, "The file was empty." He never said who emptied the file.
Tim, you have part of it right. The letters need to be written. But they also need to be published for everyone to see. That is how the network of people abused by priests finally broke the cycle of lying and transfers.
Rick, you have to speak up at district meetings. Silence is consent.
Response to the Posting of the St. Peter, Freedom, WI Letter
http://vdma.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/unauthorized-publication/#comments
One Response
on November 3, 2010 at 4:29 pm 
Tim Niedfeldt
Hi Rick, Tim NiedfeldtI did happen to read that letter, and despite your misgivings about that publishing, I have to admit, I found it the best model for addressing doctrinal concerns I’ve seen. I’m sure lawyering skills come into play there. However as these types of issues continue to arise, we need to see more of this.
Imagine if laymen all over the synod could equally document and describe doctrinal error as you did. Could they be ignored for too long? I just think it could be time to consider a little more vocal admonition of this type if we wish to remain true to our confession.
I suppose it is not encouraging to hear that your letter was inspiring to me when you would like to downplay its new found notoriety, but keep up the good fight.
Tim Niedfeldt
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GJ - Tim has been upgraded to free spell-check.
Tim is correct. Rick's letter is a model for everyone to follow. He stated the facts with an abundance of evidence. He also argued effectively for correct doctrine and practice.
The question everyone should ask is, "Why is this still going on?" The utter lack of action speaks volumes about how the circuit, district, and synod are run. I see utter contempt for the Scriptures, the Confessions, and the souls of members.
Jeff Gunn is doing the same thing in Phoenix. But relax, folks, they are studying the issue, due to their grave concerns about the souls involved.
Introduction to the St. Peter, Freedom, WI letter
WELS To Ask Jeske - "Is You Is or Is You Ain't?"
Lately he has been featured on the LCMS website (above), published by CPH,
and promoted by Missouri,
preaching and teaching at Missiouri congregations.
I got a gal that's always late
Every time we have a date
But I love her
Yes I love her
I'm gonna walk right up to her gate
And see if I can get it straight
Cause I want her
I'm gonna ask her
Is you is or is you ain't my baby?
The way you're actin' lately makes me doubt
Yous is still my baby-baby
Seems my flame in your heart's done gone out
A woman is a creature that has always been strange
Just when you're sure of one
You find she's gone and made a change
Is you is or is you ain't my baby
Maybe baby's found somebody new
Or is my baby still my baby true?
Is you is or is you ain't my baby?
The way you're actin' lately makes me doubt
Yous is still my baby-baby
Seems my flame in your heart's done gone out
A woman is a creature that has always been strange
Just when you're sure of one
You find she's gone and made a change
Is you is or is you ain't my baby
Maybe baby's found somebody new
Or is my baby still my baby true?
Light in the Darkness of Intrepidville
in the Augsburg Confession and the Apology.
I prefer Melanchthon to Webber, Rydecki, and Kokomo.
- Dennis, Thanks for the info on the wider and narrower senses of sanctification and repentance. I am aware of them, and their usages – Professor Lyle Lange's commentary on this subject was most helpful in this regard! However, Scripture does not consistently speak of Justification in multiple senses. Theologians do, and they do so in the same way that they divide Scripture into "fundamental" and "non-fundamental" doctrines – when Scripture doesn't do this either. That is what makes these distinctions entirely synthetic, and not exegetically necessary.
Despite the words of Hoenecke, Schaller and others, I understand perfectly well from Scripture that there is only one Justification, but this is not what the words of these men say, as described above and as written elsewhere. Further, there is no attempt in the entirety of these works – none – to explicitly show that by using these synthetic distinctions, they are merely describing two sides of one Justification. The reader has to filter their words and divine their intent to arrive at this conclusion, because their words, on their face, say no such thing. In contrast, Professor Lange, in his commentary on Sanctification, was very careful to explicitly define the distinctions he was using, and how those distinctions clearly descended from usages in Scripture.
But understand how these synthetic distinctions have created, or threaten to create, an anthropocentric Gospel. One of the most egregious abuses of the Gospel is to make man a part of the work that saves him. This is synergism, and semi-pelagianism. In an effort to avoid the charge of synergism (the charge that man’s faith constitutes a work by which he merits justification), the distinctions of OJ/SJ were explicitly created in order to emphasize Christ’s objective work and eliminate any hint that man’s work is involved in his own justification.
Christ blood and righteousness is all-sufficient, faith is created in man by the Holy Spirit through the Means of Grace and passively receives the gifts offered to man in the Gospel of Christ. Fine. But what have the gifts become? By needlessly extending Christ’s acquittal/absolution/justification to the whole world, the gift is no longer “Christ’s righteousness,” but “my righteousness,” “my sinlessness,” “my justification.” Christ possesses what is already mine, and offers it to me in the Gospel. Stated another way, Christ withholds what is rightfully mine until the criterion of faith is satisfied. And so man has found his way into the Gospel, not as one performing the work, but by making himself part of the gift. This is anthropocentrism in the extreme. This is, of course, ridiculous.
It is not what the Scriptures teach, but is the consequence of words describing “Objective Justification” as “forgiveness and/or righteousness that is already ours in Christ,” “I have already been justified, and receive the benefit through faith,” or “I am saved by Jesus Christ, just like you.” As I stated above, the truth of these statements is not universal, they depend on who “I” am. – Am “I” or “you” or “us” among the regenerate, or not? The fact is, what Christ possesses is entirely His own. What He freely offers in the Gospel is entirely His own. I appropriate this gift, and it becomes mine, through faith, and through faith alone. It is not mine prior to this, but is Christ’s alone. Douglas Lindee ---
---- Pr. Paul, This is also why I think we should say that the Atonement alone is not quite sufficient for describing the object of our faith. This is where we split the road. I disagree with you here. I disagree because this necessitates a different understanding of what the Law condemns us of. Also I disagree with you on exegetical grounds as found in Romans 3:25-26. In the whole paragraphs of Roman 3:21-26, links Atonement, Faith and Justification. There the object of faith is the Atonement but what the verse says is that when that object of faith is the right object, the result is Justification of the believer.
The KJV shows this forth plainly in Romans 3:25, faith in his blood, atonement. Indeed you and Pr. Jay are in the same boat because your object of faith has an extra item and negates Romans 3:25. In this position of yours, faith in Justification is to you, Justification! Rather what Luther always contended, is against this in his Galatians Sermon, rather Luther says - Faith IS Justification, it is Justification because the object of faith is THE Righteous One who gave his life as Atonement. Through faith HIS blood, i.e., the righteousness of the one who was making Atonement, the believer gets imputed to him, this Righteousness of Christ, it IS Christ's Righteousness that gets credited to the believer.
Hence now and I close... the position you and Pr. Jay have is indeed Waltherian - all have already been absolved in Christ, what is left is for the sinner is to access this verdict which already happened in the past and access this indeed by faith. I appreciate your struggling with this but what is happening to you (if I may respectfully say) is the same thing that is happening with Calvinist Federal Visionists. The Federal Visionaries wants to go Lutheran on the Sacraments! They come very very close to the finish line where the Lutherans are standing, but the fumble? Why? because their ankles are chained to the starting post.
For your case - it would be the Waltherian post... to quote Walther but not to endorse him when he says.... "For God has already forgiven you your sins 1800 years ago when He in Christ absolved all men by raising Him after He first had gone into bitter death for them. Only one thing remains on your part so that you also possess the gift. This one thing is--faith. And this brings me to the second part of today's Easter message, in which I now would show you that every man who wants to be saved must accept by faith the general absolution, pronounced 1800 years ago, as an absolution spoken individually to him." C. F. W. Walther, The Word of His Grace, Sermon Selections, "Christ's Resurrection--The World's Absolution" Lake Mills: Graphic Publishing Company, 1978 J-5 p. 233. Mark 16:1-8.Thanks for publishing my posts, I appreciate your doing that. LPC
- Pr. Paul, This is also why I think we should say that the Atonement alone is not quite sufficient for describing the object of our faith. This is where we split the road. I disagree with you here. I disagree because this necessitates a different understanding of what the Law condemns us of. Also I disagree with you on exegetical grounds as found in Romans 3:25-26. In the whole paragraphs of Roman 3:21-26, links Atonement, Faith and Justification. There the object of faith is the Atonement but what the verse says is that when that object of faith is the right object, the result is Justification of the believer.
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GJ - Error loves ambiguities. The Confessions provide clarity and precision.
I am drawing a blank about this Lange author. Was he part of the Book of Concord? Syn Conference members should stick to the ruled norm for citations. Otherwise we will end up with a blog discussing the collected wisdom of Dennis Rardin.
Just For Laughs - Fellowship Principles from the Unprincipled
The Frog in the Kettle is Barna's book about how to boil alive the church members by introducing change slowly so they will notice it. Barna is a Fuller and WELS favorite. One WELS member told me that his pastor gave him the book to read.
It is bad enough to boil members alive, following Barna - but to brag about it? Try not to laugh the next time some WELS leader talks about fellowship principles or Walking Together. Stalking Together would be a theme more honest.
So many denizens of The Guilt Factory--aka The Love Shack--took courses at Trinity Divinity (Eee Free), Deerfield, that their fave school listed them twice in their own catalogue. Can anyone connect the dots between that and The CORE, which plagiarizes the same basic materials? Does anyone wonder why nothing is done about The CORE?
Fuller Seminary is the most popular school for leaders of the LCMS and WELS, with ELS and ELCA studying there as well. All the WELS foreign and American mission leaders were trained there, plus David Valleskey and Frosty Bivens. The "consultants" Larry Olson, Jim Huebner, and Paul Calvin Kelm were trained there, too.
Steve Witte was one of the founders of Church and Change. He got a drive-by DMin at Gordon Conwell. WELS immediately promoted him to the paid position of Asian Lutheran Seminary Board. That will keep Shrinker Lawrenz in line! They must laugh at Church and Change conventions - about how they keep one another employed on the synod's dime. What fun.
Willow Creek is the crown jewel of the WELS worker training system. Like Trinity Divinity in the vicinity, Willow Creek is close enough to run over for continuing education. One of my pastoral friends in WELS told me about being given free training by the mission board - at Willow Creek. After that, his bulletins said (like WC's) - We do not expect visitors to give to our church. Blah. Blah.
Foreign Students Are Walking Bags of Money - WELS
I remember when John Lawrenz was president of Michigan Lutheran prep. He described how Missouri took down their prep system by underfunding it, and tried to ballast their parochial schools with students from all over.
Lawrenz is now at WELS' portable Asian seminary. What he described was already happening in WELS' worker training schools. He was happy to join the trend to de-fund the schools in the name of Church and Change.
WELS describes their foreign students as "walking bags of money." I heard that they extract $30,000 a year from the college students. Remember - if you hear a WELS official deny these things, I would not accept anything they said, even if their tongues were notarized.
Foreign students are being used to prop up the system, and the parochial schools are being used as employment agencies for friends of the congregation. For instance, one WELS church has 10% of its own members in its "school," which is pre-school and kindergarten. Tuition = salaries.
One of my college students is in China, and she wrote about how much pressure is put on children to earn a degree in America. What our lazy students do not realize is how valuable an American degree is - all over the world. One teacher said, "Any American bachelor's is welcomed all over the world, if you want to travel and teach." I said, "What about a master's degree?" She said, "Oh my. Many times more so."
So it is relatively easy to get rich foreign students to help prop up the failing WELS school system. Look below and you will see a blogger's post on how ELCA underfunded their seminaries for many years. Missouri is even more stingy with their seminaries. I just read about one dropping out to pay down some of his debt. He was warned that he might not get back in.
The Boomer church leaders are as arrogant as SS guards, with the same warm personalities. They prop up their corrupt clergy friends while acting as if they are guarding the sanctity of their synod.
Lately I have some laughs on the phone with people. We enjoy those claims that others cannot comment about their denomination unless they are members. ELCA talks about all denominations. Missouri does. WELS does. The ELS does, but nobody notices. Each franchise has its own talking points about its glorious dispersion of grace and the evils of all the others. The ELS and WELS pastors do not respect each other at all. They are like two step-children forced to live together and not happy about it.
I would be happy to write about the Plymouth Brethren, if I knew any. The only one of note is Garrison Keillor, who pretends to be Lutheran. Hearing him is as painful as listening to Paul Calvin Kelm, who also pretends to be Lutheran.
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bruce-church (http://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Foreign Students Are Walking Bags of Money - WELS":
Dr. Jackson wrote: "Missouri is even more stingy with their seminaries. I just read about one dropping out to pay down some of his debt. He was warned that he might not get back in."
I'm betting that the LCMS seminary thinks if the guy does drop out, he'll end up transferring to one of the much less expensive Canadian Concordia seminaries. I know that sets of brothers have gone to both seminaries, so some are at Ft Wayne and others live in NY near the Canadian border, and make a 15-minute commute to seminary in Canada.
Bruce Church, OP, Tracks the Seminaries - Including These Disasters
bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "My Classmate Stanley Olson: There But For the Grac...":
Evidently the 2 years of "entrenchment" meant declared fiscal emergency. In 2008 Wartburg declared an emergency, revoked tenure, and dismissed 3 professors:
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2008
Seminary Emergency
http://stjohnprairiehill.blogspot.com/2008/11/seminary-emergency.html
Monday, November 17, 2008
Seminary Emergency
For quite some time, many have been saying that the nine seminaries of the ELCA are underfunded. For the last twenty years, the percentage of seminary expenses that have been covered by benevolence funds has been steadily on the decline. I just received word this morning that the current financial crisis is starting to push our educational institutions over the edge.The Wartburg Seminary has declared exigency (thus revoking tenure) and are letting go of 3 faculty and 5 staff. Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago is up against a $1 million shortfall. In addition, the Lutheran Seminary Program of the Southwest, which is a joint extension of both schools, will be discontinuing the MDiv program there and focusing on the "Theological Education for Emerging Ministries" program.
I have a feeling that we will be hearing similar stories from the other seminaries of the ELCA in the weeks to come, this news just happened to reach me first. And I wonder, how did we get into this situation? And now that we are here, how do we get out?
There was a time - not that long ago - that seminary education was 100% funded at denominational institutions. The belief was that the persons being trained at the schools were trained for the sake of the church - and thus, the church carried the cost. Today, the average seminarian comes out of school with at least $30,000 in debt (higher if you are a first career pastor, straight out of college). The question becomes, who can afford to be a pastor? If you already have college debt, no significant savings (because you have not yet had a career), and you are looking down the barrel of another at least $30,000 in debt, how can seminary be an option?
The problem is compounded by the impending clergy shortage. Last year at the
So where do we go from here?
Continuing Seminary News
Here is the official news release from the ELCA, covering the recent decisions at Wartburg Seminary discussed on this blog earlier this week.The ELCA, as an institution, has not been unaware of the growing financial burden born by seminarians. One response has been the establishment of the Fund for Leaders, a denominational scholarship program. It is a good start, but only a start. I recall when I was first looking at seminary, I think they awarded like 8 or 10 full-tuition scholarships - which left all the other seminarians paying the exact same cost for their education. In 2008 they awarded 33 "full or partial scholarships" -- reading further down in the release finds 17 full-tuition, meaning that the rest were partial. This year, according to the release, the fund will provide just over $750,000 in seminarian support. Like I said, it is a good start.
But it also raises the question, are those funds best used to provide a lot of help to a small number of students (full tuition scholarships for 17 out of somewhere around 250 of first year seminarians, or 6.8%); or would the support be better used by providing support across the entire seminary system, and lowering the overall cost?
Another response has been to pursue and emphasize paths to ministry that do not require a full theological education. In the ELCA, this is known as the "Theological Education for Emerging Ministries" program. Those eligible for TEEM ministry are persons over the age of 40, "who are perceived by the ELCA to possess those leadership abilities that are needed in specific communities such as African American, Black, Asian and Pacific Islander, Hispanic, American Indian and Alaska Native, Arab Middle Eastern, deaf, remote rural and inner city communities." There are some theological education requirements: a year in residence at an ELCA seminary, a CPE, and an internship - but the guidelines specifically allow that any of these may be waived. Is this the way out of the dilemma? Take care of the overwhelming cost of theological education by requiring less? This does seem to be at least part of the message coming from Chicago.
I have my own thoughts, but what say you? Is this the way forward?
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GJ - The 2009 ELCA convention detonated a bomb that will continue to shred the denomination, a good thing, since it was a cancer that needed surgery.
Short summary - seminary used to be almost free, which helped make up for extra years of education suited only for servile denominational ministers. Once the Boomers abandoned support for their own schools, students had to figure out if it was worth it.
The Shrinkers will take care of any feared clergy shortage, by reducing the number of members and congregations. They are "transforming lives," the stated goal of ELCA and WELS' The CORE.
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bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Bruce Church, OP, Tracks the Seminaries - Includin...":
Dr. Jackson wrote: "Once the Boomers abandoned support for their own schools, students had to figure out if it was worth it."
That's true, and most of them have voted and said the expensive accredited route isn't worth it. At Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, there are 130 students in the 2010-11 class, but only 62 are M. Div and 20 are graduate students, a few are deaconesses, and the rest are alternative route. Ft. Wayne doesn't release their numbers, it seems.
Each year a greater proportion of the student body takes non-accredited routes that are less expensive and don't qualify for federal student loans. Hence, there's little to no debt after seminary. Even if there were debt, the seminary might find it impossible to collect from the poorer students, and they could even declare bankruptcy and get rid of it for good, unlike federal student loans. With federal student loans, the feds will subtract student loan payments out of social security or disability checks if you're drawing either or both.
Of course, the seminary presidents will declare that their enrollment is going up or is steady, but not mention that more and more students are going the non-accredited DELTA or Specific Ministry route (LCMS) or the "Theological Education for Emerging Ministries" route (ELCA).
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Narrow-minded Lutheran has left a new comment on your post "Bruce Church, OP, Tracks the Seminaries - Includin...":
As I recall, the LCMS budgeted $150K for each sem for the 2010 fiscal year. Twenty-some Fort candidates did nor receive calls this Spring vs. much less (I think about four) for STL, although I believe most have been placed now. The rumor of closing Fort Wayne has been going on for some time, and IMO the SMP will make this a more likely reality. Funny how we have been hearing for years that there is a "clergy shortage." The part we are not told is that there are many parishes not seeking a full-time pastor. Many parishes use vicars (yep, their DP's let them administer the Sacrament), candidates awaiting calls, or emeritus pastors.
Other possible plans I have heard discussed are educating pastors at the Concordia U. level, which would be wonderful since the Concordias largely love evolution, CW, and homosexual "tolerance." After the CU education, then distance ed or a brief period at the sem could complete the training.
Having considered LCMS sem, I could not see paying $20K+ per year to then be in debt up to my eyeballs and not able to receive a call due to my refusal to practice open Communion, cave in to CW, and promote CG. I know a couple guys that got railroaded due to not keeping their mouths shut.
The guys running the distance ed discouraged the SMP, so that should tell us something. Although some of it may be job security, I believe the sub-par education is also a large factor. There is no Hebrew required, and there is much education missed. I have never heard a pastor say that he received too much education and preparation to administer Word and Sacrament. Of course, if the pastor is a CEO, who cares about theological training. Then there's always the LCMS's third seminary, Fuller.
Read This Comment and Visit the ELCA Seminary Website
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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.
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