May 2013
21 posts
“The same can be said of his understanding of the activity of the Holy Spirit. It...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“The theology of the cross obviously does not mean that for the theologian the...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“We must be clear about the fact that there is a profound difference in the...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“If our church right at this point has always taken this most seriously and has...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“Something else also belongs in our instruction of the congregation about the...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“What totally new substance our confirmation instruction would receive if it...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“Here we can learn from the liturgical movement of our time. On this point they...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“Our first task is to celebrate the Sacrament of the Altar again and again quite...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“Against the foolish objection that already before the Communion we receive...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“The church of the sola Scriptura can never forget that the Lord’s Supper is also...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“One can say confidently that in the four centuries since Luther just about every...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“All we have are the Words of Institution as they have been transmitted in the...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“The great art of exegesis consists in weighing all the questions of historical...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“On the one hand, he saw the disagreement of all his opponents and their...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“However, it was not some kind of practical or theoretical considerations that...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“[Luther] also withstood the final and most difficult temptation to sacrifice the...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“Luther also clearly recognized the danger that threatens every theologian, that...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“In contrast to Calvin, who saw in the doctrine of transubstantiation the real...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“All traditionalistic theologians of our time, even those who regard themselves...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“The most difficult temptation for [Luther], the basically conservative...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“All genuine theology must proceed from the principle of speaking where God’s...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
April 2013
32 posts
“Because they knew what they received there, the people of the old Lutheran...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“The Christian congregations and the people who are today looking longingly to...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“We may also then not be surprised if people no longer know “why the Sacrament...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“The Sixth Chief Part of the [Small] Catechism was written just for the...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“What the Church of the Lutheran Reformation possessed and what modern...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“If one asks for the secret of the vitality of the Catholic Church even in our...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
““We are unjustly accused of having abolished the Mass. Without boasting,...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“The Son and the Holy Spirit are our paracletes, our advocates, in heaven, as...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“The prayer of Jesus Christ, the prayer which He prayed while here on earth, and...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“When the New Testament speaks of ecclesia, it has in view, first of all, the...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“The ancient Church entered a world in which prayer was taken for granted among...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“For the church of Christ is not a church that is always busy holding...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“The difference between Lutherans and Reformed does actually lie at this point of...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“Baptism exists only in the end time. The end really began with the resurrection...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“A deeper understanding and a new appreciation of Baptism is only possible...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“Apart from the fact that adults to be baptized speak their consent and creed...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“As we who are both sinners and righteous live by daily contrition and...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“Baptism is not an isolated act, but something that goes on in all our life....”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“As was often the case, Luther’s way was the lonely way between Rome and the...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“Law and gospel do not work together toward a common end — the law is not...”
– Steven D. Paulson - “Scripture, Enthusiasm, and the ELCA” - Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology, Epiphany 2013, pg. 54
“The worst church-politics is not honest, “divisive” leadership, but...”
– Kurt E. Marquart - Anatomy of an Explosion, pg. 77
“If one stands for infant Baptism, then the following alternative seems to be...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“We cling to the Gospel and to the promises that the Gospel attaches to Baptism...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“When the Lutheran Church against this position affirms the necessitas medii, the...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“The earlier Reformed theologians favored the distinction between the external...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“The Reformed opposition to this Lutheran understanding of Baptism is therefore...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“What is it that prompts the Reformed doctrine? We may observe something similar...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“Water Baptism in the New Testament, as long as it is Baptism into Christ, in the...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1
“If we must then answer yes with the greatest probability to the historical...”
– Herman Sasse - Letters to Lutheran Pastors - Volume 1 