Bioethike

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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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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Granted, the title of this post is provocative, but there’s a reason for that. For several years I’ve argued, in a way, that we have a theological crisis within broader Lutheranism. That crisis consists of a tendency to “theologize” using Lutheran systematic categories for illicit ends. As I’ve learned through my study of natural law [...]

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The December 31, 2010 New York Times had an interesting quote from Steven M. Gillon, author of Boomer Nation: The Largest and Richest Generation Ever and How It Changed America (Simon & Schuster, 2oo4): [The Baby Boomers] became more concerned with [their] own emotional well-being, whereas to older generations that was considered soft and fluffy. [...]

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From the It’s About Time Department (AP): Starting in January, more than 10,000 baby boomers a day will turn 65, a pattern that will continue for the next 19 years. From this Baby Boomer: Please, dear fellow Baby Boomers, take advantage of your retirement especially from government and the Church. We can handle it from [...]

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This is simply breathtaking. From The Guardian: Hidden behind the save-the-world rhetoric of the global climate change negotiations lies the mucky realpolitik: money and threats buy political support; spying and cyberwarfare are used to seek out leverage. The US diplomatic cables reveal how the US seeks dirt on nations opposed to its approach to tackling [...]

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From The Hill: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has seized dozens of domain names over the past few days, according to TorrentFreak. ICE appears to be targeting sites that help Internet users download copyrighted music, as well as sites that sell bootleg goods, such as fake designer handbags. The sites are replaced with a note [...]

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From Bloomberg: The U.S. Senate yesterday approved spending $4.6 billion to settle two lawsuits: one by black farmers who alleged racial discrimination by government lenders and the other by 300,000 American Indians who said they had been cheated out of land royalties dating to 1887. Passage of the measure, by voice vote, unblocks a legislative [...]

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