Logia a journal of lutheran theology B W reformation 1998 volume vIi, number 4 ei[ ti" lalei', wJ" lovgia Qeou' logia is a journal of Lutheran theology. As such it publishes articles on exegetical, historical, systematic, and liturgical theol- ogy that promote the orthodox theology of the Evangelical T C A features the center section of a Lutheran Church. We cling to God’s divinely instituted marks of plaque of carved ivory showing Dr. Luther nail- ing the Ninety-five Theses to the church door the church: the gospel, preached purely in all its articles, and the at Wittenberg. It dates from about . sacraments, administered according to Christ’s institution. This name expresses what this journal wants to be. In Greek, LOGIA It was given to the Concordia Seminary Library, functions either as an adjective meaning “eloquent,” “learned,” Saint Louis, by Mrs. Lydia and the Rev. Paul or “cultured,” or as a plural noun meaning “divine revelations,” Kluender in . 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Cortright ........................................................................................................................................................................................ De servo arbitrio and the Patristic Discussion of Freedom, Fate, and Grace By Mark Nispel .................................................................................................................................................................................................... Bondage of the Will: Calvin and Luther By Burnell F. Eckardt Jr. ...................................................................................................................................................................................... Pastoral Letter Regarding the Divine Service and the Sacrament of the Altar By Jobst Schöne Translated by William Staab .............................................................................................................................................................................. In Memoriam: Tom G. A. Hardt By Frederik Sidenvall .......................................................................................................................................................................................... The Ecclesiology of the Smalcald Articles By Tom G. A. Hardt† .......................................................................................................................................................................................... Gospel-Based Exhortation By Paul R. Raabe ................................................................................................................................................................................................ ...................................................................................................................................................... .................................................................................................................................................................................................... R E: Return to Grace: A Theology for Infant Baptism. By Kurt Stasiak. The Nature of Confession: Evangelicals and Postliberals in Conversation. Edited by Timothy R. Phillips and Dennis L. Ockholm. Paul’s Early Period: Chronology, Mission Strategy, Theology. By Rainer Riesner. Translated by Doug Stott. The Road from Damascus: The Impact of Paul’s Conversion on His Life, Thought and Ministry. Edited by Richard N. Longenecker. The Foolishness of Preaching: Proclaiming the Gospel against the Wisdom of the World. By Robert Farrar Capon. A Boy Named Jesus. By Robert Aron. Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings. Edited by Marcus Borg. The Original Jesus. By Tom Wright. The Rise of Christianity. By Rodney Stark. One Jesus, Many Christs: The Truth about Christian Origins. By Gregory J. Riley. B N .................................................................................................................................................................................... The Decay of the Catechumenate • Unorthodox Opinions • That Which Remains Open Communion among the Divorced • A Matter of Taste Two Mountains • The God Who Kills • Switching Degrees Less Intelligent or More Frivolous? • Methodist Songs in Lutheran Sunday Schools Narcissism and Repentance • Impoverished Confession Communion Hymn .............................................................................................................................................................................................. By David Jay Webber Inklings by Jim Wilson ........................................................................................................................................................................................ A Call for Manuscripts ........................................................................................................................................................................................ C j T relationship to hermeneutics (my Fort (see the scholarship of Adolf von Har- “G E, Y M” Wayne S.T.M. thesis on Gadamer) and its nack). This adaptation resulted in a historical origins (my Union Seminary— significant conflict with biblical theology, h When members of the Lutheran New York Ph.D. dissertation on Harnack which conflict was expressed in the Trini- Church tell me that another church is bet- and historicism). As M. Andrew has dis- tarian and Christological controversies. ter for them, I rarely disagree. If they want covered, post-modern relativism is Second, although the creeds put an to speak in tongues, the Lutheran Church absolutely inimical to a confession-based end to the Neoplatonic threat to Chris- is not the church for them. If they want a religion of any type. How does one then tology, they made little headway against