Review of An Introduction to Christian Theology

A review of An Introduction to Christian Theology by Richard J. Plantinga, Thomas R. Thompson, and Matthew D. Lundberg

Luther’s Life and Thought

Presentation given in part of the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation at the First Lutheran Church on October 21, 2017 in Columbus, Indiana

Review of The Church Event: Call and Challenge of a Church Protestant

A review of The Church Event: Call and Challenge of a Church Protestant by Vitor Westhelle

Review of Thinking with the Church: Essays in Historical Theology

A review of Thinking with the Church: Essays in Historical Theology by B. A. Gerrish

Europe at the Time of the Reformation

Presentation given in part of the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation at the First Lutheran Church on October 21, 2017 in Columbus, Indiana

Luther, the Flawed Giant

Presentation given in part of the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation at the First Lutheran Church on October 21, 2017 in Columbus, Indiana

Review of Thinking Christ: Christology and Contemporary Critics

A review of Thinking Christ: Christology and Contemporary Critics by Jane Barter Moulaison

Review of Take My Hand: A Theological Memoir

A review of Take My Hand: A Theological Memoir by Andrew Taylor-Troutman

Stories the Religious Left Must Tell Itself

Reviews Changing the Script: An Authentically Faithful and Authentically Progressive Political Theology for the 21st Century, by Daniel Schultz. Ig Publishing (2010) $15.9

Geschichte und Historie: The problem of Faith and History

Faith at the Intersection of History and Experience is the first study in English of the theology of the German Lutheran theologian, Georg Wobbermin (1869–1943), who has been called a “captain of the liberal rearguard.” Widely read and discussed in his own lifetime, Wobbermin’s theology fell into obscurity as dialectical theology rose to prominence in the years following the First World War. Hege presents the major themes of Wobbermin’s theology, particularly his analysis of the relationship between faith and history and his development of a religio-psychological theological method that places faith at the intersection of history and experience. Wobbermin’s critiques of recent and contemporary approaches to the problem of faith and history and his attention to theological method reveal a sustained effort to continue what he called the “Luther-Kant-Schleiermacher line” of Protestant theology. The consistent emphasis in Wobbermin’s theology is on the systematic interrelation of objectivity and subjectivity, an approach he considered to be a faithful continuation of the Reformation, but one that invited conflict with the dialectical theologians, chiefly Karl Barth. Wobbermin’s debates with Barth in the 1920s on issues of method reveal a vibrant and sophisticated liberal theology co-existing with the dialectical theology that is conventionally assumed to have eclipsed it over a decade earlier. Building on work that has been done primarily in German, this study of one of the “forgotten theologians” of the early twentieth century appears as more German, British, and American theologians and historians are returning to this period of theology with renewed interest and fresh questions, and it addresses an often neglected period of modern Protestant thought in histories currently available in English