LUTHERAN QUARTERLY

VDMA: Verbum Domini Manet in Aeternum . . . the Word of the Lord remains forever.

WINTER 2001 Issue

Volume XV, Number 4

NOTE: The articles from this issue are all available electronically online  (in PDF format -- click the links on the titles, below, to download them).

About this Issue:
In March of 2001, Irene Dingel, Timothy J. Wengert, James A. Nestingen, and Robert Kolb conducted lectures in several locations to celebrate the new English translation of The Book of Concord (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000). The lecture tour was sponsored by The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, Luther Seminary (Saint Paul), and Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis), at those schools and at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. In Saint Louis, Charles P. Arand contributed his lecture to the program.

Dingel, professor of church history and the history of dogma at the University of Mainz, a regular member of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature, and editor of the series Quellen und Forschungen zur Reformationsgeschichte of the Verein fur Reformationsgeschichte, assesses the politics and churchmanship that went into the preface to the Book of Concord, the last stage in forging the Concordist settlement.
Fachbereich Evangelische Theologie, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Saarstrasse 21 , D-55099 Mainz.

Wengert, Associate Editor of LQ and professor of the History of Christianity at The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, served as co-editor of the 2000 Book of Concord.  Wengert has crafted an analysis of the many-faceted contributions of Melanchthon to the Book of Concord, especially the basic confessional duty to bear Christ.
The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, 7301 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19119.

Arand translated the Apology of the Augsburg Confession for the 2000 Book of Concord. Using rhetorical analysis, he here argues that Melanchthon’s distinction of the righteousness of faith and the righteousness of the law provides the best focal point for interpreting the Apology. Arand is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at:
Concordia Seminary, 801 DeMun Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63105.

Co-editor of Sources and Contexts of The Book of Concord (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001 ), and co-author of a forthcoming historical introduction to The Book of Concord, James Nestingen holds a chair in church history at Luther Seminary, Saint Paul. He has taken the missiological insights of Lamen Sanneh in hand to sketch an analysis of how Luther’s catechisms functioned in translating the biblical message into the cultures of northern Europe.
Luther Seminary, 2481 Como Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108.

Kolb, Missions Professor of Systematic Theology and director of the Institute for Mission Studies at Concordia Seminary, Saint Louis, served as co-editor of the 2000 Book of Concord and of Sources and Contexts of The Book of Concord, and is writing the historical introduction of The Book of Concord with Nestingen. He has turned to a part of The Book of Concord much neglected by scholars, Article XII of the Formula of Concord, and demonstrates its usefulness for Lutheran witness in contemporary North American society.
Concordia Seminary, 801 DeMun Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63105.