LUTHERAN QUARTERLY

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

SPRING 2002 Issue

Volume XVI, Number 1

Johannes Schwanke presents Luther’s theology of creation, from its exegetical foundations in the "Great Lectures" on Genesis to its doctrinal implications for modern scientific questions the Reformer never imagined.  As Oswald Bayer’s assistant, Schwanke presented this paper several times during their lecture tour through the U.S. in the Spring of 2001.
 Universitat Tubingen, Liebermeisterstr. 18, 72076 Tubingen. 

Was J. S. Bach really a theologian?  Against Joyce Irwin, for example, Robin Leaver argues that Bach was not only a theological musician but also a musical theologian.  In making this case, Leaver also presents Luther’s (and Lutheranism’s) theological understanding of music.  Leaver is president of the American Bach Society, and frequent contributor to LQ.
Westminster Choir College of Rider University, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540-3899.

Michael Marissen provides striking examples of Bach’s theological insights, specifically from the musical scores of certain cantatas.  In Marissen’s previous studies of Bach, he has analyzed the St. John’s Passion and the religious dimensions of the (textless) Brandenburg Concertos.  Marissen just concluded a Humboldt fellowship at the University of Leipzig.
Swarthmore College, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081-1397

Having recently analyzed John Milbank’s ‘‘Radical Orthodoxy’’ in a review essay, Mark C. Mattes here turns his critical Lutheran eye on a more intra-confessional target, the Evangelical Catholic ethics of David Yeago and Reinhard Hutter.  On the analogy of recent methological movements such as the "linguistic turn," Mattes identifies -- and opposes -- the Thomistic turn in such teleological ethics, namely, that God as the good shapes human progress in the virtues.
Departments of Philosophy and Religion, Grand View College, 1200 Grandview Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50316-1599.