Gift and Promise: The Augsburg Confession and the Heart of Christian Theology

by Stephen Hitchcock, Edward H. Schroeder

Overview

Gift and Promise shows how the theology of the Augsburg Confession is a gift for the world today. In the first three chapters, Edward Schroeder traces the "hub" of the Augsburg Confessionthe promise of justification by faith aloneto its source in Luther's theology of the cross. The subsequent nine chapters demonstrate how that central hub is articulated in the various articles of faith that comprise the Augsburg Confession. Each of the nine chapters is written by a distinguished theologian, historian, or scholar who was a student of Schroeder. In his foreword, Matthew Becker points to the significance of Schroeder's insights for theological study today as well as for the observance of 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation. In the course of these pages, the Trinity, sin, ethics, mission, and other topics are thus illumined as arenas in which the gospel promise is a gift for ministry and life today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506410692
Publisher:	Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date:	08/01/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	310
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Edward H. Schroeder is a professor and teacher of theology at Valparaiso University, Concordia Seminary and Christ Seminary-Seminex in St. Louis. From 1983-1993 he directed the Crossings Community, an ecumenical, international theological educational venture dedicated to “Christian ministry in daily life.”

Ronald Neustadt is an ELCA parish pastor who teaches systematic theology at the Lutheran School of Theology in St. Louis, Missouri.

Stephen Hitchcock is the senior manager of special projects for Bread for the World.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Foreword xi

Introduction to the Writers xvii

Acknowledgments xix

Martin Luther and the Augsburg Confession xxi

Abbreviations xxiii

1 Preach One Thing: The Wisdom of the Cross Edward H. Schroeder 1

2 Necessitating Christ: The Clue to Handling the Scriptures Edward H. Schroeder 17

3 Why the Cross Is at the Center Edward H. Schroeder 37

Articulating the Hub 59

4 The Trinity as Gospel Arthur (Chris) Repp 61

5 Sin Kathryn A. Kleinhans 71

6 Church, Ministry, and the Main Thing Marcus Felde 85

7 The Promise of Baptism for the Church Today Steven E. Albertin 97

8 Christology at the Table Marcus C. Lohrmann 111

9 On the Other Hand: God's Care for the Creation and Its Dilemmas Marie A. Fallinger 125

10 The Ethics of Augsburg: Ethos under Law, Ethos under Grace, Objective Ethos Michael Hoy 143

11 A Lutheran Confessional Exploration of Gospel Praxis Steven C. Kuhl 155

12 Mission Jukka Kääriäinen 175

Afterword 197

Index of Names and Subjects 201

Index of Scripture 205