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095. Book Blurbs: Paul Raabe, Isaiah 13-27
No full textConcordia Seminary’s Dean of Theological Research and Publication Dr. Kevin Golden sits down with Professor Emeritus Dr. Paul Raabe to discuss Raabe’s newly published book in the Concordia Commentary Series, Isaiah 13-27 (Concordia Publishing House, 2023), in this Concordia Journal Book Blurbs segment. “It\u27s profound theology, even in these chapters,” Raabe says. “These chapters are often overlooked by people but they constitute 20% of the book. They’re essential to the message of the book.” He says he wrote the book for non-Lutherans. “Ninety-eight % of the country is non-Lutheran,” he says. “And I believe that we all have to learn to preach and teach and write in ways that are intelligible to non-Lutherans. … We should not be working in some bubble of just Lutherans talking to Lutherans. We need to learn to make it intelligible to a general audience.” Raabe says he hopes readers walk away from the book and “rejoice in the work of Christ and His work of fulfilling Isaiah both now and the promise of the future not yet. And on how our lives in the church now, and our mission, is part of the fulfillment that Isaiah promised 2,700 years ago in the city of Jerusalem in the Middle East. We are now enjoying this age to come that he announced and we look forward to the full consummation. Isaiah can instill in us hope. Hope for the future. Hope for God’s future. Not man’s future but the future that God will bring about for our benefit.” The book is available for purchase from Concordia Publishing House and from Amazon.https://scholar.csl.edu/cjc/1095/thumbnail.jp
123. Acts 3:11-21
Get PDFChapel Sermon by Glenn Nielsen from Acts 3:11-21 on Thursday, April 18, 2024
01-50 Sixth Sunday of Easter
Get PDFSpark your thoughts for May 5th, Sixth Sunday of Easter. Jessica Bordeleau hosts professors of homiletics- Dr. Peter Nafzger and Dr. David Schmitt in a discussion of the lectionary texts from Acts 10:34–48, 1 John 5:1–8, John 15:9–17, Psalm 98:1–9.
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01-51 Seventh Sunday of Easter
Get PDFSpark your thoughts for May 12th, Seventh Sunday of Easter. Jessica Bordeleau hosts professors of homiletics- Dr. Peter Nafzger and Dr. David Schmitt in a discussion of the lectionary texts from Acts 1:12–26, 1 John 5:9–15, John 17:12–19, Psalm 1:1–6.
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The Beautiful Place: Understanding, Perceiving, and Participating in Beauty According to the Doctrine of the Two Kinds of Righteousness
Get PDFNearly everyone agrees with this statement: Beauty is powerful. But what exactly is beauty? Is it objective or subjective? Is beauty bound up with reality, or even the being of God? Or is beauty “nothing but” a social construct, rendering all judgments concerning beauty mere opinion, or else the fruit of culturism? This dissertation examines beauty through the lens of the Lutheran distinction of the Two Kinds of Righteousness. It will enable Christians to account for their experience with beauty by attending to the following three questions: (1) What is beauty? (2) How do we perceive beauty? and (3) How do we participate in beauty? Here it is argued that beauty is essentially fittingness, the creature’s conformation to its God-given role, its alignment with God’s will (also known as the Law). Coram Deo, God makes ugly sinners beautiful by giving them the righteousness (beauty) of His Son. Coram mundo, it is through the relationships into which God has placed us (coram hominibus and coram naturae) that God shapes us into the fitting/beautiful creatures He intends. These relationships are, in fact, God\u27s pro nobis words that continue to mold us. Our perception of beauty stirs in us a desire to participate in it, to commune with it, to give ourselves over for its sake. Such perception depends on the imagination, fueled by kenotic love, governed by God’s story, and shaped by cultural particularity, leading both to continuity and discontinuity concerning what is considered “beautiful” across time and space. This particularity grants different perspectives on being, and thus generates different nuances concerning beauty. Far from reducing beauty to amorphous relativism, however, this only further shows the plenitude of God’s beauty refracted through all being’s manifestations. Finally, it is argued that participation in beauty coram Deo is entirely passive, a gift received by faith. Coram Mundo, however, participation is active. It is the human creature striving (through the empowerment of the Holy Spirit) to inhabit ever more fully the beautiful place, the groove, carved out for her by God, which is nothing other than conformation to God’s Law
1 John 03:16-24
No full text1 John 3:16-24 presented by Jeffrey Oschwald for the Second reading for Sunday, April 21, 2024, Series B
113. 1 Corinthians 5:6-8
Get PDFChapel Sermon by Mark Rockenbach from 1 Corinthians 5:6-8 on Thursday, April 4, 2024
01-48 Fourth Sunday of Easter
Get PDFSpark your thoughts for April 21st, Fourth Sunday of Easter. Jessica Bordeleau hosts professors of homiletics- Dr. Peter Nafzger and Dr. David Schmitt in a discussion of the lectionary texts from Acts 4:1–12, 1 John 3:16–24, John 10:11–18, Psalm 23:1–6.
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064. John 3:1-17
No full textJohn 3:1-17 presented by David Lewis for the Gospel reading for Sunday, May 26, 2024, Trinity Sunday