Recently added articles from Currents in Theology and Mission:
A time of transition.
Apr 01, 2009; ... In the fall of 1974, my academic Dean, John Damm, asked me to take over the duties of editing Currents in Theology and Mission. Currents is a descendant of the Concordia Theological Monthly (CTM), the journal of the faculty of Concordia Seminary that began in the 1930s. When the Missouri ...
The Old Testament and public theology.(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... I. What is public theology and why should we practice it? Luther sets the standard for us as a theologian who was never shy about sounding off in the public square. He exploited the new technology of the printing press to expand what one might call the consumer audience for ...
Reading the Old Testament with Martin Luther--and without him.(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... The Lutheran Heritage Lecture Series at LSTC seeks to discover what it might mean in the twenty-first century to be faithful--and critical!--daughters and sons of the Lutheran Reformation of the 16th century. An old Latin proverb went this way ecclesia semper reformanda, that is the church ...
Reggae reveals Church involvement in slavery.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... It was a little more than 200 years ago this year, specifically on March 25, 1807, that the Abolition of the Slave Trade was passed in Britain, thus marking the beginning of the end of the virulent capturing and transporting of African people to be the slaves of the white plantation owners ...
The reason for studying African Religion in post-colonial Africa.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Culture, as Jesse Mugambi (1) observes, has six main pillars: politics, economics, ethics, aesthetics, kinship and religion. And out of these, religion "is by far the richest part of the African heritage." (2) It shapes their cultures, their social life, their politics, and their economics ...
The trial of Luther A. Gotwald.(Essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... This essay was first presented to the Annual Meeting of the Lutheran Historical Society of Gettysburg, on April 17, 1993. One hundred years ago, on the Tuesday and Wednesday after Easter in 1893, the trial of Luther Gotwald was held at Wittenberg, College, Springfield, Ohio. ...
Kristallnacht--sixty-eight years later, Nov. 9, 2006.(Essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... This anniversary reminds us of how the desecration of religious spaces changes much more than just the landscape. But I'd like to begin this morning by describing that changed landscape. The estimates of the number of destroyed and vandalized synagogues vary--it's important to ...
What can the Barmen Declaration teach us today?(Essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... The Barmen Declaration became one of the roots of the Confession of 1967 that was crafted by the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Both Barmen and the Confession of 1967 were published in the Book of Confessions approved as the confessional standards of the largest of the ...
The historical context of the Barmen Declaration.(Essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... The relatively short period from the beginning of 1933 until the end of 1946 is clearly the most dreadful and tragic time in German history and, arguably, one of the most horrendous moments in all of human history. It is a puzzling, disturbing, and complex time which dare never be ...
The Barmen Theological Declaration: on celebrating a text out of context 75 years later.(Essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Theological declarations and confessions are most often best celebrated than explained or translated from one context to another. The contexts in which they were formulated are nearly impossible to recover in times and places other than when and where they were birthed. In other words, ...
A Beginner's Guide to the Study of Religion.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2009; ... A Beginner's Guide to the Study of Religion. By Bradley L. Herling. New York: Continuum, 2007. xii + 135 pages. Paper. $13.95. This is a handy little book for those who are looking for a quick overview of the terrain of religious studies that goes beyond an encyclopedia entry, ...
Fortress Introduction to the History of Christianity in the United States.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Fortress Introduction to the History of Christianity in the United States. By Nancy Koester. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007. 250 pages. Paper. $ 18.00. Reading this volume is like visiting a national park, as Nancy Koester promised. It is a quick but exhaustive visit, ...
The Future of Lutheranism in a Global Context.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2009; ... The Future of Lutheranism in a Global Context. Edited by Arland Jacobson and James Aageson. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2008. xi + 205 pages. Paper. $17.99. This volume, consisting of thirteen essays by leaders in world Lutheranism, presents an overview of the challenges and ...
Studying the Bible without (much) knowledge of Greek (or Hebrew): a conversation with William D. Mounce's Greek for the Rest of Us and Reverse Interlinear.(Interview)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Greek for the Rest of Us: Mastering Bible Study without Mastering Biblical Languages. By William D. Mounce. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003. 320 pages. Cloth. $34.99. Interlinear for the Rest of Us: The Reverse Interlinear for New Testament Word Studies. By William D. Mounce ....
The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
Apr 01, 2009; ... In The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins (Erdmans, $20), Hurtado examines manuscripts used by early Christians as artifacts that reveal aspects of early Christianity: the earliest texts of Old and New Testament; the preference for the codex over the scroll; ...
Introduction to Modern Theology: Trajectories in the German Tradition.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
Apr 01, 2009 ... John E. Wilson's Introduction to Modern Theology: Trajectories in the German Tradition (Westminster John Knox Press, $29.95) surveys German theology from Kant to Pannenberg and Jungel. Along ...
Giving to God: the Bible's Good News about Living a Generous Life's.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Giving to God: The Bible's Good News about Living a Generous Life's seven chapters (Eerdmans, $13.00), by Mark Powell, are a readable guide to a life of stewardship. Each chapter ...
Preaching Helps.(lectionaries)(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... The Holy Trinity--Time after Pentecost--Lectionary 17 (Proper 12) "What Sunday after Pentecost is It?" "So what Sunday is it?" I find myself increasingly asked as we round the corner from Trinity Sunday into summer. Or, more precisely, "What happened to the Sundays ...
Scholarship in the Service of the Church: more essays in honor of Ralph W. Klein.
Oct 01, 2008; ... It is a delight to honor Ralph Klein because he does so many things well. He has been a scholar's scholar, a teacher's teacher, a dean's dean, a churchman's churchman, and more. Not only do we honor Ralph for what he has done but we also honor him for the way he has done it. For ...
Peggy Blomenberg--with deep appreciation.
Oct 01, 2008; ... For the last twenty years Peggy Blomenberg has served as Assistant Editor for Currents. That title does not begin to express what she has meant to our faithful readers and to me. Her primary responsibilities have involved copy editing and arranging the essays, book reviews, and ...