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 ...

This review of a study edition of Walther’s “The Church and the Office of the Ministry,” is the fourth time the book has been reviewed in the Quarterly. This is to be expected given the various editions throughout the ...

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.

John F. Brug profiles the four German-born presidents of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod who succeeded C. F. W. Walther: Friedrich Wyneken, Heinrich Schwan, Franz Pieper, and Friedrich Pfotenhauer. Each leader is examined ...