Symposium: Recent submissions

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    • Disclosing the Hidden God: Confessional Lutheran Doctrine and Christian Apologetics 

      Thompson, Luke G. (Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 2019-09-16)
      Lutheran theology informs how Lutheran pastors do outreach. What Scripture has to say about God’s hiddenness, the natural knowledge of God, the total depravity of the unregenerate, and the evidentiary and epistemic status ...

    • Emotional Wellness: Holistic Care for God's Workmanship 

      Kohls, Benjamin S. (Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 2021-09-21)
      Depression and anxiety, dysfunction and despair, fatigue and burnout are no stranger in our congregations. Sadly, they are also no stranger in our ministerium. This essay will explore the emotional wellbeing of the pastor. ...

    • I Believe that I am Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: The Pastor Cares for His Body 

      Scharf, Jonathan E. (Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 2021-09-20)
      The church in America is trending neo-gnostic with her spiritualizing tendencies. One often hears Christians relegate the human body to little more than a shell for the soul. The incarnation and the resurrection of Jesus ...

    • I Am Convinced: A Devotional Appropriation of Romans 8 to the Life of the Pastor 

      Paustian, Mark A. (Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 2021-09-20)
      This essay is intended to be a cool gospel drink—and in rich measure! A man rooted in the gospel will bear gospel fruits in his ministry. He must be filled with the confidence of Christ if he is to put his hand to overseeing ...

    • “Breaking Free”: Martin Luther's Babylonian Captivity of the Church in Context 

      Schaefer, Benjamin (Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 2020-09-22)
      After deconstructing the walls with which the Catholic Church guarded its spiritual-temporal power in his treatise To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, Luther moves on to challenge the Catholic Church’s central ...

    • Luther's Call to Action: A Consideration of To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation 

      Oakland, Jason D. (Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 2020-09-21)
      In this treatise Luther discusses the relationship of clergy and laity in the Christian church. He points out the artificial walls of superiority that the Catholic Church had created around itself and its clergy to guard ...

    • The Freedom of a Christian and Treatise on Good Works 

      Danell, James C. (Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 2020-09-21)
      These two essays were the first and last of Luther’s 1520 treatises and they reveal the spirit behind the writings. In them, Luther gives a clear exposition on the Christian life and the relationship between faith and good ...

    • Apologetics in a Postmodern World 

      Cloute, Justin C. (Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 2019-09-17)
      Pastor Cloute will examine the characteristics of postmodernism and how they affect the way the church engages the lost. He will explore angles such as how the use of narrative engages twenty-first century listeners and ...

    • An Introduction to and Defense of Apologetics 

      Berg, Michael (Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, 2019-09-16)
      Prof. Berg will define what apologetics is and examine how the apostles and prophets as well as the church fathers presented the truths of God to the people of their day. He will make the case that apologetics is really a ...