Bioethike

After a long hiatus, I’ve decided to post occasionally on the good ol’ Bioethike blog. Above you’ll note two syllabi I’m using for courses in Bioethics and Introduction to Philosophy. As you’ll see, the courses are quite reading intensive. However, my Lindenwood students are doing very well, and I couldn’t be happier with their progress. [...]

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I found this on the Interwebs today, along with a plethora of other gems (including vols. 1-78 of the Theologische Quartalschrift in PDF format), over at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary (WELS): For whatever may have been the significance of this theology of the Old School of Erlangen, it had certain faults that, in spite of the [...]

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Here is additional text from Dr. Hamm, including a few quotes from a sermon Elert delivered on June 29, 1941. According to Hamm’s footnote, the sermon is in Elert’s own handwriting: We now make a leap into the following year, 1941, and come to a sermon on 1 Peter 5:6-11, which Elert preached on June [...]

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Over the next few weeks or so, I intend to translate a few snippets of Prof. Dr. Berndt Hamm’s important paper, “Werner Elert as War Theologian.” In this section, Dr. Hamm writes about a number of sermons Erlangen (Germany) theologian Werner Elert gave during WWII. This seems especially important, since most English-language material treating Elert’s [...]

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You may be seeing this soon: [Younger Lutheran theologians are] attempting to reclaim a bit of Lutheranism’s more “Orthodox” past. Dissatisfied with the status quo, they themselves are survivors of a pro-contraception, pro-divorce, pro-abortion, and now pro-same-sex “marriage” culture. These theologians would suggest that the prevalent (and primarily academic) post-Kantian theological paradigm, one that appeals [...]

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Keller, Adolf. Lutheranism and the Reformed Faith on the Continent. Church History. 3:3 (September, 1934): 173-186: In Germany the modern Lutheran theology was developing into a nationalistic theology strongly influenced by Lutheran tendencies. It could be characterised as a Theology of Creation, taking such elements of creation as the blood, the race, the state, as [...]

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I’ve translated a few snippets from

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Augsburg Confession XVI: Of Civil Affairs they teach that lawful civil ordinances are good works of God, and that it is right for Christians to bear civil office, to sit as judges, to judge matters by the Imperial and other existing laws, to award just punishments, to engage in just wars (iure bellare, rechte Kriege [...]

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In response to the Barthian, unionist Barmen Declaration, on May 31, 1934 Erlangen school theologians Werner Elert and Paul Althaus signed the Ansbach Memorandum (Ansbacher Ratschlag), which included such categories as “race” and “blood” within the Orders of Creation teaching. For those interested in German Lutheranism during the Nazi Period, paragraph 3 of this Memorandum [...]

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Although written a few years ago, Prof. Matthew Hockenos’s review (Hockenos is associate professor and chair, history department, Skidmore College) of Lowell Green’s Lutherans Against Hitler: The Untold Story (Concordia Publishing House, 2007) may give some food for thought when interpreting Green’s newest work, The Erlangen School of Theology: Its History, Teaching and Practice (Lutheran [...]

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