Ph.D. Dissertations, 2021
Summaries of the original research of this year’s PhD graduates of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
Miroslav Volf on Luther, Memory, and Reconciliation
The prolific Yale theologian spoke at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, as part of the Reformation500 speaker series on April 11, 2016
Theological #ThrowbackThursday: Ralph Bohlmann
#TBT: A young Professor Ralph Bohlmann on “The Language and Concepts of Theology.”
Theological #ThrowbackThursday: Martin Scharlemann on the parables
A new #TBT blog series bringing back to life old media files from the Concordia Seminary archives. First up: hear Martin Scharlemann on “Jesus, Teller of Parables.”
What does a Concordia Seminary professor do over the summer?
A summer in the lives of Elowsky, Seifrid, Biermann, and Voelz
Summer workshops offered nationwide – June to August, 2016
Spend time with faculty exploring a variety of topics from small groups to Revelation
Do Non-Lutherans Pay Attention to LCMS Theology?
…or is it the best kept secret in American Christianity?
Theological Symposium – September 22-23, 2015
Exploring what memory formation, retention can mean for church, ministry
Inaugural Lecture – Joel Okamoto – October 9, 2014
“The Madman’s Time Has Come: Theology After the Death of God”
Theological Symposium – Sept 23-24, 2014
This year’s theme is “Faithful Witness to God’s Story in the World Around Us.” Featured speakers include Charles Arand, Erik Herrmann, Leo Sánchez, Jeff Oschwald, and Will Schumacher
An Essential Theology of Easter
What is the difference between saying “Jesus lives” and “Jesus is risen”?
2014 Summer Workshops
The summer 2014 series of workshops for pastors, professional church workers, and interested laypersons, at various locations across the country
New Calvinism and the News
Putting the “New Calvinism,” and its interest in Luther and Lutherans, in context
A View of the Gospel From Saturn
A few weeks ago, the Cassini spacecraft flew by Saturn. As it did so, it turned its cameras back toward earth and and snapped pictures of it just as the Voyager 1 space craft did so in 1990. If memory serves me correctly (which does not always do anymore) the image of the earth took about one quarter of a pixel of space on the photograph. Now Cassini-Hyguns has taken a slightly higher resolution photograph in which one can even see the moon along with the earth
Extinction and the Richness of Human Life
Golden Toad—Wikimedia Sometime ago (actually quite awhile ago), I wrote a post on the meaning of extinction and how the irrevocable loss of those creatures that no longer exist diminishes the richness of life in creation. But their loss also impoverishes us as human creatures. Aldo Leopold recognized the tragedy of this loss to us as he looked back and lamented the passing of the passenger pigeon in the early twentieth century
Talking Theology: Gunjevi? on Milbank and Radical Orthodoxy
Concordia Seminary faculty discuss with Croatian scholar Boris Gunjevi? the influential ideas of theologian John Milbank