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Lutheran Synod Quarterly Lutheran LUTHERAN SYNOD QUARTERLY VOLUME 58 • NUMBER 1 MARCH 2018 March 2018 March 2017 Bjarne Wollan Teigen Reformation Lectures: Luther’s Three Treatises: The Reformation Platform Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation: Luther and the Papacy The Freedom of a Christian Articles and Sermon Presidential Quotes From the Past Luther’s Commentary on Genesis 28 Volume 58, Number 1 Volume Congregational Introits for Lutheran Churches Sermon on 2 Timothy 4:9-21: Come Before Winter The Ninth Triennial Convention of the CELC at Grimma, Germany The journal of Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary ISSN: 0360-9685 Lutheran Synod Quarterly VOLUME 58 • NUMBER 1 MARCH 2018 Te journal of Bethany Lutheran Teological Seminary lutheran Synod Quarterly EDITOR-IN-CHIEF........................................................... Gaylin R. Schmeling BOOK REVIEW EDITOR ......................................................... Michael K. Smith LAYOUT EDITOR ................................................................. Daniel J. Hartwig PRINTER ......................................................... Books of the Way of the Lord The Lutheran Synod Quarterly (ISSN: 0360-9685) is edited by the faculty of Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary 6 Browns Court Mankato, Minnesota 56001 The Lutheran Synod Quarterly is a continuation of the Clergy Bulletin (1941–1960). The purpose of the Lutheran Synod Quarterly, as was the purpose of the Clergy Bulletin, is to provide a testimony of the theological position of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod and also to promote the academic growth of her clergy roster by providing scholarly articles, rooted in the inerrancy of the Holy Scriptures and the Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. The Lutheran Synod Quarterly is published in March and December with a combined June and September issue. 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Contents LSQ Vol. 58, No. 1 (March 2018) 2017 BJARNE WOLLAN TEIGEN REFORMATION LECTURES: LUTHER’S THREE TREATISES: THE REFORMATION PLATFORM Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation: Luther and the Papacy ......................................................................9 Erling T. Teigen The Freedom of a Christian ............................................................35 James Langebartels ARTICLES AND SERMON Presidential Quotes From the Past ..................................................81 Luther’s Commentary on Genesis 28 ..............................................83 Christian H. Eisenbeis Congregational Introits for Lutheran Churches ..............................121 Daniel J. Hartwig Sermon on 2 Timothy 4:9-21: Come Before Winter ......................143 Craig A. Ferkenstad The Ninth Triennial Convention of the CELC at Grimma, Germany ......................................................................................149 Gaylin R. Schmeling 4 Lutheran Synod Quarterly Vol. 58 Foreword LSQ Vol. 58, No. 1 (March 2018) N THIS ISSUE OF THE QUARTERLY WE ARE PLEASED to share with our readers the annual Bjarne Wollan Teigen Reformation Lectures, delivered October 26–27, 2017, in Mankato, IMinnesota. Tese lectures are sponsored jointly by Bethany Lutheran College and Bethany Lutheran Teological Seminary. Tis was the fftieth in the series of annual Reformation Lectures which began in 1967. Te format of the Reformation Lectures has always been that of a free conference and thus participation in these lectures is outside the framework of fellowship. Tis year there were three presenters. Te frst presenter was Prof. Em. Erling Teigen of Bethany Lutheran College (BLC) in Mankato, Minnesota. Prof. Em. Teigen has served BLC since 1977. He received his AA from Bethany Lutheran College (1960), BA from the University of Minnesota (1962), BD (MDiv) from Bethany Lutheran Teological Seminary (1966), and MA in philosophy from the University of Minnesota (1978). He served Evangelical Lutheran Synod parishes in East Grand Forks and Apple Valley, Minnesota. Since joining the BLC religion faculty, he has taught courses in philos- ophy, dogmatics, American Lutheran history, Luther, and the Book of Concord. He has served on the Doctrine Committee of the ELS as well as numerous other boards. He was editor of the Lutheran Sentinel from 1975–82, and a founding editor of Logia for which he remains an editorial advisor and contributing editor. He has presented papers 6 Lutheran Synod Quarterly Vol. 58 at various pastoral conferences, Lutheran free conferences, and has published articles in the Concordia Teological Quarterly, Lutheran Synod Quarterly, the proceedings of the Pieper Lectures and the Congress on the Lutheran Confessions, as well as Logia. Prof. Teigen presently serves as the BLC Archivist and editor of Oak Leaves. He has been a member of the Reformation Lectures Committee since 1978, and has served as a moderator and reactor for the lectures several times. In 2004, he presented a lecture on J. A. Ottesen of the Norwegian Synod for this lecture series which received an award from the Concordia Historical Society. In 2000, his translation of Letters from Leipzig, Sigurd Christian Ylvisaker’s letters to his family while studying in Leipzig from 1907–10, was published by BLC. He and his wife Linda live in Mankato. Te second presenter was Dr. Erik Herrmann, associate professor of Historical Teology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri, and director of the Center for Reformation Research. He received his PhD from the same institution in 2005 in Renaissance and Reformation Studies. Before being called to the faculty, he was an assistant pastor at Timothy Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Lindenwood Park neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. His areas of interest and research include the history of biblical interpretation, with a particular focus on Martin Luther and the Reformation period; the history of medieval and Reformation/early modern Europe; twentieth-century interpreta- tions of Martin Luther and his theology; and the history of American Lutheranism. His most recent publications are in Te Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther’s Teology, Te Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther, and Te Annotated Luther. He is married to Aliesha (née Ave-Lallemant). Tey are blessed with fve children: Augustine, Constansa, Mathias, Tobias, and Elspeth. Te third presenter was the Rev. James Langebartels of St. John’s Lutheran Church, Rib Lake, Wisconsin, and Zion Lutheran Church, Ogema, Wisconsin. Pastor Langebartels was baptized and confrmed at Trinity Lutheran Church in Crete, Illinois. He attended Northwestern College (1977) in Watertown, Wisconsin, and Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary (MDiv, 1981) in Mequon, Wisconsin. He also received an STM in exegetical theology (2008) from Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, at the same service in which his son Matt received his MDiv. He and his wife, Shirley (née Marten), were married at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Tomah, Wisconsin, in 1978. Teir marriage has been blessed with four children, all of whom attended Michigan Lutheran Seminary in Saginaw, Michigan, and Martin Luther College in New No. 1 Foreword 7 Ulm, Minnesota; two also graduated from WLS. John ( Julie) owns Cornerstone Roofng in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin; Peter (Ann) teaches at St. Markus Lutheran School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Matt (Hannah) serves as a WELS pastor in Tucson, Arizona, and Rebekah (Neil) Birkholz supports her husband in Beijing, China. Jim and Shirley have also been blessed with eleven grandchildren. Pastor Langebartels served as a parish pastor from 1981 to 2015 at churches in Morenci, Hopkins, and Imlay City, Michigan. During his time there, he served for sixteen years on the Michigan District Constitution Committee. He translated numerous articles from the Quartalschrift for the anthology volumes of Te Wauwatosa Teology (volumes 1–3, NPH, 1997); the frst volume of Te Complete Timotheus Verinus (NPH, 1998); the third volume (and portions of the frst two volumes) of Adolf Hoenecke’s Evangelical Lutheran Dogmatics (NPH, 2003, 2009); Heinrich Schmid’s Te History of Pietism (NPH, 2007); and Luther’s Church Postils I–V (LW 75–79, CPH, 2013–16). He served as assistant editor of Luther’s Sermons III– IV (LW 56–57, 2016–17) and the four volumes of Te Apology to the Book of Concord by Martin Chemnitz, Nicolas Selnecker, and Timothy Kirchner (frst volume, CPH, 2018). He is currently translating Georg Mentz’s biography of Elector John Frederick the Magnanimous. Pastor Langebartels retired from full-time parish work in 2015 and moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to be closer to some of his grandchildren and to put more time into translating. He now serves as the part-time pastor of St. John Lutheran Church,