The Writings of Robert W. Bertram

Below is a list of writings from one of our founders, Robert W. Bertram.

We also have some sermons by Robert W. Bertram.

• Bibliography of Robert W. Bertram
• Abounding In Hope
• Churching the Movement
• Altogether By Faith
• Assesses Movement's Future Role
• The Authority To Be (Culpably) Inclusive: A Mark of Bonhoeffer's Confessio
• A Baptismal Crossing
• Be It Ever So Humdrum
• Being Threshed by a Real Comer
• Brunner on Revelation
• Bulldozed By Baptism
• Carl J. Peter, Jr. (1932-1991): A Tribute
• C.F.W. Walther On Law and Gospel Toward a Revival of Lutheran Hermeneutics
• Chicago Theologians on BEM
• A Christmas Crossing
• A Christmas Crossing II
• The Church and The Economic Order: Scriptural and Confessional Basis
• The Complete Centurion
• Confessing the Faith of the Church
• Confessional Allegiance and Historical Method: Conflicting Accountabilities?
• Confessional Movements and FC-10
• Confessional Subscription
• A Constructive Lutheran Theology of the Saints
• Correlations and Crossings
• Cresset, Correlations and Crossings
• Crossings, Inc. (Saint Louis): A Proposal
• Depth in the Faith
• Depth of Faith
• Is Dialogue Hazardous to Ecumenism?
• Dialogue Theologians Must Hurry to Keep Up With Grassroots
• The Doctrine of Justification Today
• Doing Theology in Relation to Mission
• Do Not Cling To Me
• Does MAP (Metropolitan Associates of Philadelphia) Need Theology?
• The Enlightenment That Won't Go Away: Modernity's Crux
• An Epiphany Crossing
• "Ethical Implications of Military Leadership"
• Even Rome Can Be Home
• The Exchange of Peace
• Explanation-Justification: A Rung for Sharpe's Ladder
• "Faith Alone Justifies": Luther On Iustitia Fidei
• Faithful Teaching, but Religious?
• Falling Short of the Glory
• Foretasting "Full Communion": Tomorrow's LutEpisc Today
• Forgiving One Another, Out Loud
• The Free Loser
• Freedom Under Law
• Getting Well/Better
• The Gospel as Good News in Today's World
• The Hermeneutical Significance of Apology IV
• "He's Got The Whole World in His Hand?" Yes, But Which Hand?
• A History of Crossings
• The Human Subject as the Object of Theology: Luther by Way of Barth (Dissertation) - 16 Meg file, download only
• How Free are the American Churches? A Clue from Martin Luther King
• How a Lutheran Does Theology: Some Clues From The Lutheran Confessions
• How Our Sin's were Christ's
• How to be Technological Though Theological: An Answer For "Fabricated Man"
• Human Freedom in a Lutheran Theory of Education
• Immortality
• Infant Communion? Then What is Communion? Or Baptism?
• Informal Remarks on The Historicity Of Adam
• Isn't the Church Big Enough For Both of Us?
• Instrument for Internal Governance of Concordia Seminary in Exile
• Jesus and the Gentiles
• Legal Morality And The Two Kingdoms
• Letter to the Board of Control, Concordia Seminary From the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Faculty, Concordia Seminary In Exile
• A Letter in response to a call to teach at Seminex
• Letting the Word Go to All the Trouble and Take the Trouble
• Liberation by Faith: Segundo and Luther in Mutual Criticism
• Like Movement, Like Seminary
• The Lively Use of the Risen Lord
• Lutheran Confessional Perspectives in Today's World
• Lutheran-Reformed Full Communion: A Modest "No"
• Luther on the Unique Mediatorship of Christ
• Magnificat
• Matthew 1: 18-25 (Fourth Sunday in Advent) A Crossing
• Mary and the Saints as an Issue in the Lutheran Confessions
• Ministry
• The Ministry of "the Ordained" and "the Laity"
• Moving Our Congregations "From Maintainance to Mission": Is the Jerusalem Congregation at Pentecost (Acts 2) a Model?
• Oh Theophilus! Oh G. G.!
• On the Nature of Systematic Theology
• Ordained Into Whose Ministry?
• Our Common Confession and Its Implications for Today
• Our Theological Shape Five Years Later or a New Movement and a Word for It
• Pardon My Dying - A Sequel To Ash Wednesday
• A Personal Memorandum
• Piepkorn in Perspective
• Poem to John Tietjen On the 20th Anniversary of his Ordination
• Political Preaching
• "Preface" to Theology in the Life of the Church
• "The Present Governance Structure"
• Problem of Evil? Or Problem With God?
• The Professional Responsibility of the Christian Lawyer
• Putting the Nature Of God Into Language: Naming The Trinity
• The Radical Dialectic Between Faith and Works in Luther's Lectures on Galatians (1535)
• Recent Lutheran Theologies On Justification By Faith: A Sampling
• Reconsidering Lutheran Identity in an Age of Theological Pluralism and Ecumenical Challenge
• Redeeming Hefner's "Discerning The Times"
• From Reflection to Responsible Living: Where Do We Go From Here
• Reformation by Faith - But Where?
• Reformation Faith and American Pragmatism
• Responsibility: A Confessional-Ethical Splice
• "Review of Edward Schillebeeckx, Christ the Sacrament of the Encounter With God"
• "Review Symposium on Revelation and Theology: The Gospel as Narrated Promiise" by Ronald F. Thiemann
• Re-WORDing the Localist, Anti-bureaucratic Movement into an Intentional, Confessional Movement
• The Right to Be Responsible
• Salvation(s)
• Scripture and Confessions A Session with Schneeweiss
• "Scripture and Tradition" in the Lutheran Confessions
• Six Steps--Give or Take One
• A Smithian Luther And Faith-Based Universalism
• Social Justice: A Recollection of King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
• Some Theses for Discussion On the Dogmatic Constitution De Revelatione Of the Second Vatican Council
• Spirituality is for Angels--The Angels of Michael
• Still Needed: A Confessional Movement
• Sub Iudicio Nostro
• From "Tappert" To "TroBoC," Sola Fide
• Telling Time or Whose Millennium Is It Anyway?
• A Theologian's Perspective on Economic Activities in the Christian World Mission
• The Theological Promise of the Convention Workbook
• Those Troublesome Mission Affirmations
• Three Parables from Stavanger
• Transactional Analysis?... Redeemable for Christian purpose?
• Transfer of Church Authority to Church Administration?
• A Trans-Pluralism Trend: Might It Become Confessional?
• "The Twice-Free Student"
• What Can Law Do For Revelation
• What Crossings Is/Was/Might Be
• "What Is So Great About Faith?"
• What's Lutheran About Higher Education? Theological Presuppositions
• What Lutherans Confess
• When Is God Triune?
• Where Is The Confessional Movement Moving?
• Whitehead's Theory of God and the World
• Will "Full Communion" Include Full Conversation?
• The WORD for New Orleans