So, even though the Green Bay Packers were eliminated from the NFL playoffs on Sunday, it came to our attention that LCMS pastor, Scott Kruse (CSL 2000), of St. Paul Lutheran Church, Grafton, Wisconsin, went where no Lutheran pastor has gone before. He made the Ultimate Lambeau Leap in the famed “frozen tundra” of Lambeau Field.
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This is part four in a series of posts by Dr. David Maxwell. The first was "What Should You Do With Anger and Desire?" The second was "Gregory of Nyssa: Direct the Passions." The third was "Cyril of Alexandria: Lull Your Passions to Sleep." My sense is that Lutheran spirituality leans more in...
This is part three in a series of posts by Dr. David Maxwell. The first was "What Should You Do With Anger and Desire?"The second was "Gregory of Nyssa: Direct the Passions." Cyril of Alexandria is a good example of a Christian appropriation of the Stoic view of the passions. The goal is not...
This is part two of a series of posts from Dr. David Maxwell. The first post was "What Should You Do With Anger and Desire?" Gregory of Nyssa’s On the Soul and the Resurrection is a treatise that demonstrates what a Platonic spirituality of the passions looks like when Christians adopt it...
