Pr. Gene Brueggemann Heresy is a teaching which has the venom of the Serpent in it to poison the wellspring of the church’s teaching and life: the gospel of God’s gracious redemption of humankind revealed most clearly and convincingly in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, the Word made flesh. Luther and…
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Robert Sylwester I’m a lifelong member of the LCMS. All of my formal education through my undergraduate degree was in LCMS schools. I spent 16 years as a teacher in LCMS elementary schools and at a synodical college. Since 1968, I’ve been on the faculty of the University of Oregon, where my focus was on…
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Robert Sylwester Emeritus Professor of Education University of Oregon Evangelicals responded very negatively to Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution. Retrospectively, they might have said in effect, ‘Well that’s interesting. Gather credible data, and when your actual discoveries pose significant theological implications, we’ll take another look.’ The scientific community did seek credible data, and when DNA was added…
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By Charles Kunert Introduction The question of origins is central to our understanding of who we are and what we can know about ourselves. The developers of the biblical canon recognized this fact in placing the book of Genesis and the biblical account of origins at the very beginning of Scriptures. Secular philosophers and scientists…
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By James Gruetzner George L. Murphy is at home in two worlds: the world of science (Ph.D. in theoretical physics, Johns Hopkins, 1972) and the world of Lutheran theology (M.Div., Wartburg, 1983). As a physicist, he is authoritative; as a Lutheran theologian he is informed. It is more than merely having “one foot in each…
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