Spring 2023
Spring 2023 (Issue 8)
Reformation of Education in Wittenberg: A Model for Today
The students flocked to Wittenberg because they wanted a serious and practical education that would prepare them to live life in the home and the state and the church. Students today are looking for the same thing, and they are finding it in classical colleges.
The So-Called “Social Gospel”
So that is the aim of the social gospel, to establish the kingdom of Christ, the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God here on earth, as an outward visible organization.
Getting to Know the Fathers: St. Cyril of Jerusalem
Throughout his teaching, moreover, Cyril shows a depth of Biblical fluency, connecting multiple events, figures, and prophecies from throughout the Old and New Testaments to the topics at hand.
Reformation of Education in Wittenberg: A Model for Today
The students flocked to Wittenberg because they wanted a serious and practical education that would prepare them to live life in the home and the state and the church. Students today are looking for the same thing, and they are finding it in classical colleges.
The So-Called “Social Gospel”
So that is the aim of the social gospel, to establish the kingdom of Christ, the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God here on earth, as an outward visible organization.
Getting to Know the Fathers: St. Cyril of Jerusalem
Throughout his teaching, moreover, Cyril shows a depth of Biblical fluency, connecting multiple events, figures, and prophecies from throughout the Old and New Testaments to the topics at hand.
Our Shepherd Says, “My Sheep Are Mine” (Hymn)
So what, then, would we ever fear? / For all is well when Christ is near; / He shines, and none can darken. / He calls and leads through deathly shade; / We’re unafraid, / And to His voice we hearken.
Wretched Man That I Am: Commentary on Shakeapeare’s Sonnet 129
Shakespeare’s imagination was clearly influenced and filled by the Christian culture he inherited. Shakespeare assumed and explored the ancient and Christian understanding of reality.
Wisconsin and Missouri: Overcoming Our Differences
This is true: the gospel does not need pastors; but we Christians do! We need the full gospel. If Wisconsinites and Missourians agree on this, perhaps we are on our way to overcoming our differences.
Luther and the Three Estates
When Martin Luther speaks of the three estates, he’s using an established pattern of speaking. But Luther doesn’t limit estate to man’s stations in life; rather, he sees the orderliness of creation and its working (cosmogeny) as directly related to the way in which man is to act within creation (virtue).
Theory of Eternal Life, Philipp Nicolai, Part II
Such a heavenly life bestows and creates in me a joyful and invigorated spirit, so that I can overcome the world, move mountains, drive away the devil, destroy my enemies all around in the name of the Lord, and perform great wonders.
Review: The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov is perhaps the most explicitly Christian and thoroughly modern in theme and outlook of any of the books thus far reviewed in these pages; and for those who appreciate these pages, I would recommend the novel as essential reading.
A Biblical Theology of the Cross
Deutschlander shows both that the cross is something the Christian wants and at the same time not something the Christian chooses for himself.
On Holbein, Allegory of the Old and New Testaments
As similar as it is to its predecessors, the sophistication of this composition clearly surpasses that of Cranach
