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New for July — E.W. Mueller |
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E.W. Mueller on the Christian Life
by Gilson A.C. Waldkoenig
E.W. Mueller was for many years the Secretary of Church in Town and Country for the National Lutheran Council. The NLC was a cooperative venture among Lutherans during the mid-20th century. At a time when Lutherans were split in several different denominational organizations.... |
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Thomas Aquinas on the Christian Life
by Matthew Levering
Thomas Aquinas's theology of charity testifies throughout to Paul's proclamation that "God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us" (Rom 5:5).... |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe on the Christian Life
by Nancy Koester
June 14, 2011, marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her first novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, converted thousands of readers to the anti-slavery cause. Stowe’s story ran as a serial in the anti-slavery paper National Era and then appeared as a book in 1852.... |
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Gustaf Wingren on the Christian Life
by Marc Kolden
The year 2010 marks the centennial of the birth of the Swedish theologian Gustaf Wingren, who died in 2000. For nearly all his academic career Wingren taught Christian theology at the University of Lund. Between 1940 and 1980 he published numerous books and articles that were influential.... |
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J. Michael Reu on the Christian Life
by Craig L. Nessan
Johann Michael Reu (1869-1943) was born in Diebach, Germany and trained for the pastoral ministry at the mission institute founded by Wilhelm Loehe in Neuendettelsau. He came to the United States in 1889, first serving as pastor at Mendota and then at Rock Falls, Illinois for ten years until 1899.... |
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Martin Luther on the Christian life
by Mary Gaebler
She knocks a little tentatively on my office door; and at my invitation she comes in and sits down. I've not seen Sarah (not her real name) for some time, and I'm delighted she has come to talk. One of the most capable students I've ever taught, she is just back from a semester in India.... |
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C.S. Lewis on the Christian life
by Gilbert Meilaender
The Christian life hurts. God hurts. That theme is firmly embedded in Lewis’ writings, and it is, I think, the deepest reason for the power of his writing. "The Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is," Orual reflects in Till We Have Faces.... |
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Johann Sebastian Bach on the Christian Life
by Mark Bangert
Searching for an ethical tone in the life of Johann Sebastian Bach is difficult but not impossible. It is difficult because J. S. Bach wrote so little about himself, in fact resisted writing about himself, and because those closest to him either found such reporting socially unusual or not important.... |
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John Calvin on the Christian Life
by Randall C. Zachman
Calvin dedicated a great deal of attention to the nature and scope of the Christian life, and even wrote a section of the Institutes dedicated to this theme (Inst. III.vi-x), which was often published on its own.... |
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Jonathan Edwards on the Christian Life
by Gerald McDermott
Harriet Beecher Stowe complained that Jonathan Edwards’s sermons on sin and suffering were “refined poetry of torture.” After staying up one night reading Edwards’s treatise on the will, Mark Twain reported.... |
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Gregory of Nyssa on the Christian Life
by Jeremy Bergstrom
When looking at Christian figures from the past, interpreters primarily choose three routes, what I think of as the evolutionary, conservative, and progressive. A more evolutionary approach views Christian history as a development to maturity.... |
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Immanuel Kant on the Christian Life
by Jeanine M. Grenberg
I was once teaching Immanuel Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason to a group of undergraduates. We were discussing Kant's claim that Christ acts as a "prototype" for human morality.... |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Christian Life
by Richard J. Perry, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was the most celebrated and honored African American in the last half of the 20th century. Streets named after him and scholarships bearing his name have immortalized the contributions of this Nobel Peace Prize winning American Christian minister.... |
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Wilhelm Loehe on the Christian Life
by Craig L. Nessan
Johann Konrad Wilhelm Loehe served from 1837 to the end of his life as a village pastor in Neuendettelsau, Germany, in the vicinity of Nuremberg. This was a call that Loehe did not covet.... |
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Helmut Thielicke on the Christian Life
by the Rev. James Childs
Helmut Thielicke, after obtaining doctorates in both philosophy and theology, became professor of theology at Heidelberg in 1936. He was removed from this position by the Nazis in 1940 because of his active participation in the confessing church.... |