I first read Jaroslav Pelikan’s The Riddle of Roman Catholicism: Its History, Its Beliefs, Its Future (1959) while doing my pastoral residency in Detroit, 1978–79. I just finished it for the second time. It is still a book with value. Pelikan says one thing in particular that struck me: Any . . . . Continue Reading »
Russell Saltzman is the latest evangelical catholic to head Romeward. But the riches of the catholic tradition already belong to Lutherans: we just need to wake up to that reality. Continue Reading »
A new survey reports that “most American evangelicals hold views condemned as heretical by... the councils of the early church.” Is a deficient understanding of sola scriptura and tradition to blame?
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The North American Lutheran Church’s (NALC) application to join the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has not been approved. But did the LWF follow its own rules?
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Did the “Protestant Future” hubbub leave you longing for an Evangelical Catholic Church? It already exists. It’s called Lutheranism. Continue Reading »
I recall being deeply moved by Fr. Richard John Neuhaus’ recounting of his journey from Lutheranism into the Roman Catholic Church (“How I Became the Catholic I Was”). It is a move that not a few have made, with denominational provenance spanning most every Protestant confession. . . . . Continue Reading »
Memoirs in Exile: Confessional Hope and Institutional Conflict by John H. Tietjen Fortress Press, 368 pages, $19.95 In the spring of 1969, near the completion of my first year as a student at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, John Tietjen was named the seminary’s president. Most of the students, I . . . . Continue Reading »
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