John Warwick Montgomery is one of the great Christian apologists of our time. By vocation a lawyer (regularly arguing religious freedom cases before the European Court of Human Rights, an English barrister and member of the California, Washington, and United States Supreme Court Bars), Montgomery’s scholastic accomplishments are far too many to list. With terminal [...]
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Angus Menuge received his B.A. in philosophy from Warwick University, England, and his M.A. and Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. A philosophy professor at Concordia University-Wisconsin since 1991, Menuge has been making a name for himself in Christian apologetics, the Intelligent Design controversy, and the application of the Lutheran theology of [...]
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Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther (1811-1887), the first president of the Evangelical Lutheran Missouri Synod, was born in Langenchursdorf, Saxony, Germany in October of 1811. He attended the University of Leipzig, was ordained into the Lutheran ministry in 1837, and sailed to America with the Saxon Immigration in 1839. Walther was the pastor at Trinity Lutheran [...]
Dr. Siegbert W. Becker (1914-1984) served as professor of Systematic Theology and New Testament at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary from 1969 to 1984. His scholarship covered wide terrain, from dogmatics to studies on the occult, but no subject was closer to his heart than the topics of Justification and the Theology of the Cross. This series [...]
Craig Parton, background in law, is the American director of the International Academy of Apologetics, Evangelism, and Human Rights. He recieved an M.A. from Simon Greenleaf, a J.D. from Hastings College of Law, and is a member of the California Bar. An outspoken advocate of Confessional Lutheranism, Parton is a close friend and colleague of [...]
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Attached to this post is the full 1905 text of Henry Eyster Jacobs’ “A Summary of Christian Faith.” I found this text referenced several times by solid confessional theologians, and the document in full is also hosted at Project Wittenburg, so it must have some degree of high status among Lutherans. The text itself seems [...]
The full title of this document is, “A Short Exposition of Dr. Martin Luther’s Small Catechism.” It was published by Concordia Publishing House in 1912 under the authorixation of the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America (now the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod).
The original book clocks in at only 153 pages (40 of which are a [...]
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“Christian faith has appeared to many an easy thing; nay, not a few even reckon it among the social virtues, as it were; and this they do because they have not made proof of it experimentally, and have never tasted of what efficacy it is. For it is not possible for any man to write [...]
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“I do prefer this book of Martin Luther upon the Galatians, excepting the Holy Bible, before all books that have ever seen.” John Bunyan
Martin Luther’s Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians is available here in it’s entirety, translated by Theodore Graebner (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1949). This text is in the public [...]
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Martin Luther’s famous tract of 1817—The Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences (i.e., The Ninety-Five Theses)—was the primary instigator of the Protestant Reformation. In it, Luther brings to light clerical abuses rampant within the Roman Catholic Church of his time and challenges the Church’s teachings on the nature of penance, the utility [...]
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