Watershed in Missouri
There is a geological feature called a “watershed.” A watershed is an area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas. Watersheds exist all over the…
Atonement in Lutheran Orthodoxy: Baier-Walther
C. F. W. Walther selected Johann Wilhelm Baier’s Compendium Theologiae Positivae as the basis for the first dogmatics used to prepare pastors for The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Walther edited Baier’s…
Is Jesus Worth It? (Matthew 10:34-42)
Introduction This text for the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost in Year A of the Three-Year Lectionary raises this question: Is Jesus worth it? We are going to look at this…
A Masterful Biblical Defense of Vicarious Atonement | Book Review
Copyright (c) 2023 Dennis E. McFadden. Used by Permission. Rev. McFadden is a Pastor ordained in the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod. The meaning of “atonement” has been a topic…
Atonement in Lutheran Orthodoxy: Johannes Quenstedt, Reviewed by Scott Diekmann
Copyright (c) 2023 Scott Diekmann. Used by Permission. Note: This review may be downloaded in a PDF here. Candles flicker and floorboards creak against rusty nails at Wittenberg University in…
Christian Publishing and Romans 16:17
Introduction Is there ever a cause sufficient to avoid, turn away from, dissociate from, or shun someone? Is there anyone whom we should not bid Godspeed? In the New King…
Book Review: Vicarious Satisfaction in Lutheran Catechisms, Confessions, and Hymns
by Rev. Dennis E. McFadden, Pastor ordained in the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod Vicarious Satisfaction in Lutheran Catechisms, Confessions, and Hymns by attorney and Lutheran layman TR Halvorson fulfills…
FREE: Index of Johannes Quenstedt’s Didactic-Polemical Theology, Or a Theological System
Robert Preus said that Johannes Andreas Quenstedt was the Thomas Aquinas, so to speak, of Lutheran Orthodoxy, the last great representative. To anyone following his arrangement of material and noting…
When Doctrinal Review Misses a Question
Note: This essay may be downloaded in a PDF here. Sometimes doctrinal review is like what happens frequently in court. A man driving his car across railroad tracks was struck…
When Doctrinal Review Is Like Spell Check
Sometimes doctrinal review is like spell check. Spell check is up to its own task, but not up to other tasks. Its competence does not extend to, for example, diction.…