Love Eternal, Uncreated, All-Creating, and Crucified
A Study of the Connection between Theology Proper and God’s Act of Creation and Redemption in Medieval Western Thought. Introduction Contextual background: In Christian Theology, the acts of God and the mechanisms by which they unfold, hold visible centrality in understanding His relation to the world. For many, God is to be understood through creation…
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The Pro-Natal Imperative
Feast of St. Joseph, 2026St. Matthew’s Lutheran, Cornwall Psalm 127 SC, Art 1: The First Article: On Creation I believe in God, the Father almighty, CREATOR of heaven and earth.[2] What is this? Answer:I believe that God has created me together with all that exists. God has given me and still preserves my body and…
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God Is Not Beautiful
What do we think of, when hear the word beauty? When you hear Paul’s words, in Philippians 4:8, – is anything good, is anything true, is anything beautiful? – and that you should THINK ON THESE THINGS. – what is it you that you think on? Perhaps art. Perhaps music. Perhaps the face of a…
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On the Conditional Retracability of Election in the Theology of Woflhart Pannenberg
Introduction In the work of Wolfhart Pannenberg, there is much in the way of a departure from classical, presupposed, and unexamined Church doctrine. One of the topics through which this red thread of commonality expresses itself is in Pannenberg’s work on the doctrine of Election. While scattered across the breadth of his work, in all…
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Pannenberg’s Concpetion of Conversion Unto Faith in the methodological chapters of Jesus God and Man
Wolfhart Pannenberg’s book Jesus God and Man is a monographical exploration of Christological method. It argues for seeing Jesus as a figure of historical study to be weighed according to the evidence of the witness testimony that one finds within Holy Scripture. This was to be done by exercising reason upon externally observable evidence, or,…
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Holy Cross 2025 Sermon
Today on this feast of the Holy Cross, I want to think with you all on the very center of our faith – the crucifixion of our Lord. The cross. Not just WHAT IT is. Or THAT IT IS. But WHAT IT DOES. This idea. WHAT IT DOES. This we ask this morning. See, in…
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The Use of Reason & Tradition in Theology: Or, Theology & Polemics
All of this then begs the question of what place tradition has in theology. If the task is to hear and put forth God’s Word, then what do we make of the churches theological writings? In short, these are to serve as witnesses to the clarity of Scripture. The breadth of these texts speak to…
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