Finding Christ in the Old Testament is the focus of the new Advent Sermon Series, The Bible, Our Book of Advents, written by President Emeritus Dr. Dale A. Meyer and published by Concordia Seminary Press. Available as a downloadable PDF, the series includes four sermons drawing from Old Testament texts that prefigure the advents of Christ. After each ..
Dr. David Maxwell, the Louis A. Fincke and Anna B. Shine Professor of Systematic Theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, reflects on the Ten Commandments and the way they are expressed in Lutheran music, including a piece from J.S. Bach, from the organ in the Chapel of St. Timothy and St. Titus. Previously, Dr. Maxwell ..
Browse the interactive version above, download here as a pdf, or purchase print copies at the online store. This Concordia Pages explores how locating the story of salvation within the broader, biblical story of creation impacts our witness in the world. In particular, it considers how being placed alongside our fellow creatures as recipients of ..
Kent Burreson’s latest thoughts on faith formation, the adult catechumenate, and congregational education
Browse the interactive version above, download here as a pdf, or purchase print copies at the online store. About “Christ Is Risen, Indeed: Good News for Him and for Us,” Jeff Gibbs writes: Good Friday and Easter (along with Ascension and Pentecost) go together, one event, in a sense. Different New Testament texts invite us ..
We are delighted to announce that Concordia Seminary Press has launched a new series on homiletics entitled “Conversations in Preaching.” Dr. David Schmitt, the series editor and the seminary’s Gregg H. Benidt Endowed Memorial Professor in Homiletics and Literature, writes in the introduction: “The Conversations in Preaching series is an opportunity for preachers to reflect ..
(Editors Note: Paul R. Raabe is Professor Emeritus at Concordia Seminary and Professor in Biblical Studies at Grand Canyon University) Someone asked me how to talk with non-Lutherans. That is a good question. Here are some thoughts for the readers of ConcordiaTheology.org to consider. On a daily basis I chat with Christians who are non-Lutheran. ..
Editor’s note: this review originally appeared in the Winter 2020 issue of the Concordia Journal. We reprint it here in anticipation of this year’s Theological Symposium, “Whatever is Lovely”: The Role of Beauty in Theology and Ministry, September 21-22, 2021. For more information and to register, go to https://www.csl.edu/resources/continuing-education/theological-symposium/. REDEEMING TRANSCENDENCE IN THE ARTS: Bearing ..
Rick Marrs talks with David Loy about the connections between Christian counseling, justification, and the distinction between law and gospel
Kent Burreson’s latest thoughts on faith formation, the adult catechumenate, and congregational education
In light of Dr. Smith’s plenary at this year’s Theological Symposium, Joel Biermann’s 2019 review of his Cultural Liturgies project
Dale Meyer talks with Rich Buswell, the artist who designed the new windows in Concordia Seminary’s Chapel of St. Timothy and St. Titus
Concordia Seminary President Thomas Egger’s sermon for Call Day 2021
Videos of the plenary presentations of the 2021 Multiethnic Symposium, including Philip Jenkins, Vince Bantu, Marcel Silva Steuernagel, and Samuel Deressa
Discussing the book of essays and sermons that honors Dale A. Meyer, with Dr. Meyer and its editors
Kent Burreson and Rhoda Schuler introduce their online summer workshop, “Treasures Old and New: A Workshop on Adult Faith Formation.”