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- “Ethical Implications of Military Leadership”
- “FAITH ALONE JUSTIFIES”: LUTHER ON IUSTITIA FIDEI
- “Immortality”
- “Preface” to Theology in the Life of the Church
- “Review of Edward Schillebeeckx, Christ the Sacrament of the Encounter With God”
- “Review Symposium on Revelation and Theology: The Gospel as Narrated Promise” by Ronald F. Thiemann
- “Scripture and Tradition” in the Lutheran Confessions
- “The Present Governance Structure”
- A Baptismal Crossing
- A Christmas Crossing
- A Christmas Crossing II
- A Constructive Lutheran Theology of the Saints
- A History of Crossings
- A Letter in Response to a Call to Teach at Seminex
- A Personal Memorandum
- A SMITHIAN LUTHER AND FAITH-BASED UNIVERSALISM
- A Theologian’s Perspective on Economic Activities in the Christian World Mission
- A Trans-Pluralism Trend: Might It Become Confessional?
- Abounding in Hope
- Altogether By Faith
- An Epiphany Crossing
- Assesses Movement’s Future Role
- BE IT EVER SO HUMDRUM
- Being Threshed by a Real Comer (Luke 3:7-18)
- Brunner on Revelation
- Bulldozed by Baptism: The Better to See You With
- C.F.W. Walther On Law and Gospel Toward a Revival of Lutheran Hermeneutics
- C.F.W. Walther On Law and Gospel Toward a Revival of Lutheran Hermeneutics
- Carl J. Peter, Jr. (1932-1991): A Tribute
- Chicago Theologians on BEM
- Churching the Movement
- Confessing the Faith of the Church
- Confessional Allegiance and Historical Method: Conflicting Accountabilities?
- Confessional Movements and Formula of Concord Article 10
- Confessional Subscription
- Correlations and Crossings
- CRESSET, CORRELATIONS AND CROSSINGS
- Crossings, Inc. (Saint Louis): A Proposal
- Depth in the Faith
- Depth of Faith
- Dialogue Theologians Must Hurry to Keep Up With Grassroots
- Do Not Cling To Me
- Does MAP (Metropolitan Associates of Philadelphia) Need Theology?
- DOING THEOLOGY IN RELATION TO MISSION
- Even Rome Can Be Home
- EXPLANATION-JUSTIFICATION: A RUNG FOR SHARPE’S LADDER
- Faithful Teaching, but Religious?
- Falling Short of the Glory
- Foretasting “Full Communion”: Tomorrow’s LutEpisc Today
- Forgiving One Another, Out Loud
- Freedom Under Law
- From “Tappert” To “TroBoC,” Sola Fide
- From Reflection to Responsible Living: Where Do We Go From Here
- Getting Well/Better
- HE’S GOT THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HAND?” YES, BUT WHICH HAND?
- HOW A LUTHERAN DOES THEOLOGY: SOME CLUES FROM THE LUTHERAN CONFESSIONS
- How Free are the American Churches? A Clue from Martin Luther King
- HOW OUR SINS WERE CHRIST’S: A STUDY IN LUTHER’S GALATIANS (1531)
- HOW TO BE TECHNOLOGICAL THOUGH THEOLOGICAL: AN ANSWER FOR “FABRICATED MAN” 1
- HUMAN FREEDOM IN A LUTHERAN THEORY OF EDUCATION
- INFANT COMMUNION? THEN WHAT IS COMMUNION? OR BAPTISM?
- Informal Remarks on the Historicity of Adam
- INFORMAL REMARKS ON THE HISTORICITY OF ADAM
- Instrument for Internal Governance of Concordia Seminary in Exile
- IS DIALOGUE HAZARDOUS TO ECUMENISM?
- Isn’t the Church Big Enough For Both of Us?
- Jesus and the Gentiles
- Legal Morality And The Two Kingdoms
- Legal Morality And The Two Kingdoms
- Letter to the Board of Control, Concordia Seminary
- 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
- Like Movement, Like Seminary
- Look Again
- Luther on the Unique Mediatorship of Christ
- Lutheran Confessional Perspectives in Today’s World
- Lutheran-Reformed Full Communion: A Modest “No”
- Magnificat Advent 4
- Mary and the Saints as an Issue in the Lutheran Confessions
- MATTHEW 1: 18-25 (Fourth Sunday in Advent)
- Ministry
- 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?
- 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
- Piepkorn in PERSPECTIVE
- Poem to John Tietjen On the 20th Anniversary of his Ordination
- Political Preaching Thirty Propositions on Addressing Controversial Social Issues
- Problem of Evil? Or Problem With God?
- PUTTING THE NATURE OF GOD INTO LANGUAGE: NAMING THE TRINITY
- Re-WORDing the Localist, Anti-bureaucratic Movement into an Intentional, Confessional Movement
- 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”
- Reformation by Faith – But Where?
- REFORMATION FAITH AND AMERICAN PRAGMATISM
- Responsibility: A Confessional-Ethical Splice
- Robert Bertram’s Dissertation: The Human Subject as the Object of Theology
- Salvation(s)
- Scripture and Confessions; A Session with Schneeweis
- Six Steps–Give or Take One
- 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
- TELLING TIME or Whose Millennium Is It Anyway?
- The Authority To Be (Culpably) Inclusive: A Mark of Bonhoeffer’s Confessio
- THE CHURCH AND THE ECONOMIC ORDER: SCRIPTURAL AND CONFESSIONAL BASIS
- The Complete Centurion
- The Doctrine of Justification Today
- The Enlightenment That Won’t Go Away: Modernity’s Crux
- The Exchange of Peace
- The Free Loser
- THE GOSPEL AS GOOD NEWS IN TODAY’S WORLD
- THE HERMENEUTICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF APOLOGY IV
- The Lively Use of the Risen Lord
- The Ministry of “the Ordained” and “the Laity”
- The Professional Responsibility of the Christian Lawyer
- The Radical Dialectic Between Faith and Works in Luther’s Lectures on Galatians (1535)
- The Right to Be Responsible
- The Soteriological Mission of Theology: Robert W. Bertram
- The Theological Promise of the Convention Workbook
- The Twice-Free Student
- The WORD for New Orleans
- Those Troublesome Mission Affirmations
- Three Parables from Stavanger The WCC’s Faith and Order Commission’s Plenary Meeting
- TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS…. Redeemable for Christian purpose?
- Transfer of Church Authority to Church Administration?
- What Can Law Do For Revelation
- What Crossings Is/Was/Might Be
- What Is So Great About Faith?
- WHAT LUTHERANS CONFESS
- What’s Lutheran About Higher Education? Theological Presuppositions
- When is God Triune?
- WHERE IS THE CONFESSIONAL MOVEMENT MOVING?
- Whitehead’s Theory of God and the World
- WILL “FULL COMMUNION” INCLUDE FULL CONVERSATION?