LOGIA
A JOURNAL OF LUTHERAN THEOLOGY
EPIPHANY 2000 VOLUME IX. NUMBER 1
CONTENTS
ARTICLES
Christology arId Femillism
David P. Scaer .................................................................................................................................................................................. 3
The Ordinatioll of Women and Feminist Theology
Armin-Ernst Buchrucker .............................................................................................................................................................. 9
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The Trwufiguratio/J of Our Lord
Kurt Reinhardt .......................................... .................................................................................................................................... 35
A Historicnl Perspective of Walther's Position 011 Church, Ministry, tmd Pclity
John C. Wohlrabe Jr. .. ....................................................................................................................................................... , .......... 37
REVIEWS ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 45
REVIEW ESSAY: Union with Christ: TIle New Fil1nish Interpretation of Lilt her. Edited by Braaten and Jenson
Review by Andriy Honcharuk.
The SpiritUlllity of the Cross: The Way of the First Evangelicals. Gene Edward Veith
Let All the People Praise You: A Songbook
Natural Church Development. Christian A. Schwarz
A Passion for God's Reign: Theology, Christian reaming, and the Christial1 Self. Moltmanl1. Wolterstorff, Charry
The Porvoo Statement and Declaration in Confessional Lutheran Perspective
The FomlUla of Agreement itt Confessional Lutheran Perspective
TIle Joim Dedaration 011 the Doctritle of Justification
Justification and Rome. Robert Preus
An Explanation of the History of the Sllffering and Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Johann Gerhard
BRIEFLY NOTED
LOGIA FORUM .............................................................................................................................................................................. 57
Begin the Beguines • Feminist Theology • Piety and Equity • Where Technology Meets Theology
The New Book of Concord • Bull of Indiction • Priestesses in the Church?
Ersatz Hymns • Unavoidable Obligations • Three Miracles
ALSO THIS ISSUE
Hymn on Marriage by Chad L. Bird................................................................................................................................................ 7
A Call for Manuscripts .................................................................................................................................................................... 8
Inklings by Jim Wilson .................................................................................................................................................................. 26
Hymn on Confession & Absolution by Chad L. Bird .................................................................................................................... 36
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The Place of the Luther Academy in Today's World
DANIEL PREUS
1N 1867 MY GREAT-GREAT-GRANDFATHER Herman Amberg Preus delivered a series of seven lectures in KIistiania (now Oslo), Norway, later printed in Gisle Johnson's Luthersk Kirketidende,
to describe the conditions of the Norwegian Lutheran immigrants
in America. At the time Herman Amberg Preus was the pastor of a
Norwegian Lutheran church in Spring Prairie, Wisconsin, and the
president of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in
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and "revivals" to be conducted Methodist-fashion in its
congregations.2
After numerous other references to the unorthodox practice ram-
pant in the Augustana Synod, Preus pointed to what he consid-
ered one of the most serious problems of all.
America (Den norsk-eVimgelisk-lutherske Kirke i Amerika), com- The synod and its pastoral conferences have not only refused
monly known simply as the Norwegian Synod. In his lectures he forceful invitations on our part to meet jointly with us, but
attempted to show the living conditions of Norwegian immigrants, they have even