Gottesblog

One of my predecessors at Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church in Gretna, Louisiana was the Rev. Adolph P. Wismar (1884-1977) who served my congregation from 1910-1918.

I agree with Dr. Ahlman as to the importance of our synod as the world continues to ravage the church, and as entire confessions within Christendom have become apostate.

The uproar over the annotated Large Catechism shows that while we may be united to a great extent over doctrine, that we agree for the most part in our theology - we are divided over how that doctrine applies in the real world. We are divided over anthropology.

CPH’s streak of publishing great resources has come to a spectacular end, a veritable crash-and-burn.

Lutheranism is arguably the tradition with the strongest hymnody. Many of our finest post-Reformation hymnists were also pastors and/or theologians, great writers and servants of the Word…

This little parable illustrates the ontological difference between the idea that reality is objective vs the idea that reality is subjective. We are increasingly culturally captive to the latter, and this philosophical framework is known as Postmodernism.

A Lutheran can never say this, at least if the service is liturgical, and especially if the service includes the Most Holy Sacrament.