This article serves as an introduction to a series of exegetical articles of the chief passages of Scripture which deal with "ministry." What are the main problem areas and disputed issues? What is the status of ...

Gary Brown’s 1977 paper examines the Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS) and its doctrinal stance within American Lutheranism, challenging the perception of the ELS as a reactionary splinter group. Brown traces the ELS’s ...

Professor Brug takes an objective look at the approaches and caricatures of doctrine that have appeared concerning church and ministry in Lutheran synods. After defining “minister” and “ministry” from both a wide and narrow ...

In this brief article Professor Brug looks at a contemporary revival of Grabau’s stance on Church and Ministry among the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod.

Bruce Wietzke’s essay traces the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod’s (WELS) fellowship relations from 1963 to the early 1980s, grounded in the synod’s doctrinal principles on church fellowship. Beginning with the ...

V.J. Weyland’s essay, The History of the Controversy Between Wisconsin and Missouri on the Doctrine of the Church (1964), traces the theological and historical roots of the division between the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran ...