Logia a journal of lutheran theology Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther 1811–1887 Henry Melchior Mu¨hlenberg 1711–1787 L A Eastertide 1996 volume v, number 2 logia a journal of lutheran theology Eastertide 1996 volume v, number 2 .......................................................................................................................................................................... The Church-State Relationship and Augustana XVI in the Writings of C. F. W. Walther and S. S. Schmucker By James D. Heiser .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5 Liturgical Uniformity in Missouri By Michael Henrichs.............................................................................................................................................................................................. Grabau and Walther: Theocentric versus Anthropocentric Understanding of Church and Ministry By Lowell C. Green................................................................................................................................................................................................ The ELCA: Its Past, Present, and Future By David A. Gustafson .......................................................................................................................................................................................... J. A. O. Preus By Leigh Jordahl .................................................................................................................................................................................................... Conversation between Two Lutherans Concerning Church Organization By Herman Fick .................................................................................................................................................................................................... The Strict Lutherans By W. J. Mann ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... A Call for Manuscripts .......................................................................................................................................................................................... Ephesians 4:11–12 Reconsidered By Philip J. Secker ................................................................................................................................................................................................ .................................................................................................................................................................................................... R E: Doing Well and Doing Good. By Richard John Neuhaus. Biblical Interpretation: The Only Right Way. By David Kuske. Commentary on Song of Songs. By John F. Brug. The Gnostic Empire Strikes Back. By Peter Jones. Gnosticism and the New Testament. By Pheme Perkins. The Land and the Book: An Introduction to the World of the Bible. By Charles R. Page II and Carl A. Volz. Union with Christ: John Calvin and the Mysticism of St. Bernard. By Dennis Tamburello. God and Caesar Revisited. Edited by John R. Stephenson. Augustine Today. Edited by Richard John Neuhaus. .................................................................................................................................................................................... The Laymen’s Movement • The Wittenberg Society • Pieper on Holy Communion • Real Presence in the Liturgy Neo-Baalism • The Real Wiseacres • The Gospel Isn’t Fair • A Synod Worthy of the Name Reading Mania • On the Public Reading of Scriptures • You May Be a Meta-Growther If . The Crucified One Has Risen Indeed • O Lord, Help My Unbelief • Building Marriage and Home Did You Get Your Convert Last Year? C j ■ To the Editors: result of serving with him on the newly ■ To the Editors: As I wrote in an earlier letter to L, I formed Alliance of Confessing Evangeli- I want to thank you for publishing profit greatly from your publication. cals, which will launch its work publicly L. It is an answer to those of us who I want to correct the note of credit on with a summit gathering at Harvard hunger for a depth not found in most page of Volume IV, Number , fol- University in April . Dr. Preus was Bible study classes. lowing the item “On Promise-Making” to give a major address. Also, he was to I would also like to suggest a subject. in the Colloquium Fratrum section. be the very first Lutheran speaker at the In L Reformation/October I am E. L. Eckhardt, but my address is Philadelphia Conference on Reformed (:), I read the editorials regarding the SE th Ct., Tecumseh, Kansas. My Theology in April (both here in Chicago LWML pledge, an article regarding father, who will celebrate his th as well as in Philadelphia) where I am women’s ordination, and an article birthday come December , resides in also slated to speak. Now, sadly, I am regarding Hermann Sasse’s concern the Arbor Manor in Fremont, Nebraska. taking one of his two messages myself, with Calvinism and its effect on I retired from Christ Lutheran, Topeka, with R. C. Sproul the other. I have felt a Lutheranism. Finally there was also an on May of this year. great loss in the past few days and ad for the book Luther on Vocation, Keep up the excellent work in your wished that I could have had more theo- which I read years ago and plan to pur- welcomed publication. logical discussions with my friend who chase. These articles combined speak to loved Christ and as a result served his a question that has bothered me. E. L. Eckhardt confessional Lutheran church so ably. What is the role of women in the Tecumseh, Kansas Bob had given me a whole new under- church? What is our calling? What roles standing of Luther, the Lutheran did women of the Old Testament play in confessional life, and the value of the God’s plan? What role did the women at Reformed learning to listen more to the foot of the cross play in the emerg- their Lutheran friends. He modeled ing church? If it was just to give money, ■ To the Editors: integrity, with genuine reformational why were they following Jesus and his It was great to receive your two issues ecumenical concern, where we could disciples all over? They could give of L sent as complimentary copies. labor together for the cause of the money from home. What was the role As I have looked over the journals I am gospel of grace. Since my own back- and position of the women mentioned thrilled with them. I have long wanted ground is Baptist he was often amazed in Paul’s letters? What was the role of to receive such a Lutheran publication. I at my keen interest in Luther and Luther women in the early church? Were they have enjoyed several other journals, studies and loved to ask me questions, not the backbone of the “social services” from Ft. Wayne and St. Louis as an in turn, about my own historical tradi- that the church in Rome offered to the example, but L is far superior to tions. I think we stretched each other as people of that day? What did they do in them both. friends and associates. I know I grew to the time of Luther? Would the preaching When I last wrote to you it was love him profoundly, and in such a ministry, belonging to the men, have because Dr. Preus had sent me a copy of short time. been received so eagerly without the the book on eschatology. At the time I contribution of the women? The book wrote, I had not yet heard of his passing John H. Armstrong, Director of James ties faith and works together. into our Lord’s presence. I became Bob’s Reformation & Revival Ministries Are the spoken word and the word in friend in just the past two years as a Carol Stream, Illinois action separate? Finally, what is the dif- ference between Calvin’s definition of one wanted to do it, and I realized that LOGIA CORRESPONDENCE AND vocation and Luther’s? Did Calvin’s pre- they did not see quilt making as a service COLLOQUIUM FRATRUM occupation with work have anything to to God. Likewise, I wrote a service for a We encourage our readers to respond to the do with the degrading of “women’s LWML rally in which each guest who material they find in L —whether it be (unpaid for) work” both in the home brought a health kit for the ingathering in the articles, book reviews, or letters of and in the church? would put it in baskets near the altar as a other readers. While we cannot print every- It is time for us to stop dwelling on gift to God. When I got there the ladies thing that is sent, we hope that our Collo- what women cannot do in the church had changed the service. Two small bas- quium Fratrum section will allow for longer and decide what they can and have been kets with a couple of kits sat outside the response/counter-response exchanges, called to do, as well as what that calling communion rail. None of our guests whereas our Correspondence section is a does for the church and how it is related were ever asked to present their gifts to place for shorter “Letters to the Editors.” to the preaching ministry, the spreading God. of the gospel. We might not have young women If you wish to respond to something in an I have been troubled by this question clamoring to be ministers of the word if issue of L , please do so soon after you because whether you want to believe