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Martin Luther's Theology of Justification. A Response to the New Finnish Interpretation of Luther
(2018)
In his writings, Martin Luther strove to present justification as the glorious gift that it is: God’s free forgiveness given on the basis of Jesus’ sacrifice for sinners. The Lutheran Confessions rightly maintain this ...
Honor Y Verguenza: Understanding Honor and Shame in Latin America
(2018)
The spectrum of guilt-shame-fear cultures has been studied by anthropologists for some
time now. However, more recently Christian missiologists have begun to study the benefits and
challenges each of these cultures ...
Pre-Seminary Curriculum Re-Evaluation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Non-Biblical Language Requirement
(2018)
In a changing world, the WELS must constantly reassess the system by which it trains men for the public ministry. Over the course of more than 150 years, the pre-seminary curriculum has adapted to changing times, circumstances, ...
Treasuring the Beauty of Jesus' Parables: Structure, Function, and The Fallacy of Adolf Julicher's One-Point of Camparison
(2018)
This thesis aims to contribute to current exegetical practices. It will provide clarifying
definitions and connect their associated terms to visual models. These models, in turn, will
demonstrate the structure and function ...
Exploring the Role of Federation Pastors in Promoting Support and Recruitment Opportunities for Small Area Lutheran High Schools
(2018)
Area Lutheran high schools are an integral part of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod‘s educational system. Of these 25 schools, many of them have less than one-hundred students and often depend on local pastors who ...
Relational Discipleship as Countercultural Christianity: A Study of Scripture's Teaching on Relational Discipleship as a Response to Contemporary American Culture
(2019)
Scripture describes a disciple of Christ as one who follows Jesus in faith born of the gospel – that is, a “believer” or a “Christian.” Correspondingly, discipleship is every activity by which the Holy Spirit nurtures the ...
Inter-Congregational Cooperation: Expanding Parishioners' Views of Ministry
(2020)
In the strictest sense of the word, there is only one true Christian Church which includes every
single person who has been bought by the blood of Christ. In common usage, however, there are
countless churches, each ...
WELS Ministry to the Homeless
(2020)
When traveling through large cities in the United States, it is not hard to find a group of
homeless people congregated together. A question that can arise in a pastor’s mind might be: “Is
it possible to have a ministry ...
True Man: Jesus as Model for Christian Masculinity
(2020)
What does a real man look like? What does a real man do? These are questions that many
modern men are struggling to answer. The world is ready to provide an endless array of proposed
answers, but how the Bible talks ...
The Value of Linguistics for Exegesis: A Demonstration of Lexical Semantics and the Hebrew נחם
(2019)
Linguistics, the study of how language works, is a field of study closely related to biblical
scholarship and exegesis. Advances in linguistics have benefited WELS pastors and their
exegesis, but in a largely indirect ...