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No Continuing City
Vol. 11 No. 1 (1984)

“Editorial: No Continuing City” by Ralph W. Klein
“A Cosmic Sigh of Relinquishment” by Walter Brueggemann
“The Gospel, Historical Consciousness, and Risk” by David W. Lotz
“The Unemployed: Challenge to the Church” by Karen L. Bloomquist
“Pastoring One’s Peers” by Harry N. Huxhold
“The Second Knot of Friendship” by Travis DuPriest
“The Church That Changed Its Name” by Vernon J. Jahnke
“Letters to the Editor in Response to ‘Probings Toward Ecclesial Discipline’” by John H. Tietjen
The Glad Sound: Jesus is A Real Comer
Vol. 10 No. 6 (1983)

“Editorial: The Glad Sound: Jesus is A Real Comer” by Ralph W. Klein
“Matthew, Master of Ecumenical Healing” by B. T. Viviano
“None Greater Among Those Born From Women: John the Baptist in the Gospel of Matthew” by Edgar Krentz
“Discipleship and Economic Justice” by Don Prange
“What’s Goin’ On?” by Will Herzfeld
“Sex and Sacrament in Contemporary Literature: The Incarnation as Method” by Duane P. Mehl
“Remembered Spring” by Maynard E. Stokka
“Broken Promises, Broken Circle, Broken People” by Paul Bauermetster
“The Rite” by Kenn Storck
“Just Friends” by Travis DuPriest
“Christmas Eve on Wilshire” by Karl K. Kniseley, II
“Village Creche” by Ruth Ressmeyer
“Madonna Alone” by Samuel Zumwalt
“Conception” by Joyce S. Otten ,
Book Reviews
“In Transit” by Roger Fjeld
Post-Modern Religion A New "Luther" Letter
Vol. 10 No. 5 (1983)

“Editorial: Will the Real World Please Stand?” by Ralph W. Klein
"Post-Modern Religion” by Ted Peters
‘‘Concerning Earnest Christians:’’ A Newly Discovered Letter of Martin Luther” by Charles E. White
“Anatomy of Intimacy: Marriage for Christians” by Paul Bauermetster
“Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Facing Futility In and After Vietnam” by Mel Jacob
“Teaching in the Church: Privilege and Responsibility” by Jean Bozeman
“An Epilogue for M*A*S*H— A Prologue for Human Suffering” by Stephen L. Theil
Book Reviews
“Can Seminaries Really Change?” by Walter Stuhr
Beginning Again
Vol. 10 No. 4 (1983)

“Editorial: Beginning Again” by Ralph W. Klein
“Jesus Among Jews and Gentiles” by Carl E. Braaten
“To Move The Heart”: Word and Rite In Contemporary American Lutheranism” by Michael B. Aune
“Ancient and Modern Gnosticism” by Ralph Moellering
“The Family Feud: The Battle for Righteousness” by David F. C. Wurster
“Toward Better Preparation for Marriage” by David J. Rolfe
“Probing Toward Ecclesial Discipline In a Pluralistic Age” by Jay C. Rochelle
Book Reviews
Briefly Noted
Church Union as Mission
To Von
Vol. 10 No. 3 (1983)

“Editorial: To Von” by Ralph W. Klein
“Righteousness: Human and Divine” by Carl Graesser, Jr.
“Of Things Beyond Me: Wisdom in the Book of Job” by Norman C. Habel
“History and Poetry in Lamentations” by Delbert R. Hillers
“Oh Blessed Rage” Herbert E. Hohenstein
“Habakkuk and Justification by Faith” by Walter E. Rast
“Bone of My Bones and Flesh of My Flesh: The Politics of the Yahwist” by Walter Wifall
“A Book Worth Discussing: Occasional Services: A Companion to Lutheran Book of Worship” by Marion J. Hatchett
Reflections on Capital Punishment
Vol. 10 No. 2 (1983)

“Editorial: Ministry “To the Max”” by Ralph W. Kline
“Who Deserves to Live? Who Deserves to Die? Reflections on Capital Punishment” by Norman P. Dake
“What Do You Make of Indian Theology?” by T. M. Philip
“The Empathic Apologist: Pastoral Counseling Insights into Christian Apologetics” by Douglas E. Chismar and John S. Brent
“The Theology of the Cross and Social Ministry” by Robert A. Kelly
“Ministry to the Aging -Touching the Theological Bases” by Harry Coiner
“The Third Felon” by Maynard E. Stokka
“Rainbows” by Gary Blobaum
“A Book Worth Discussing: Frederick W. Danker: Benefactor: Epigraphic Study of a Graeco-Roman and New Testament Semantic Field” by A. T. Kraabel
Book Reviews
Briefly Noted
Our Tenth Year
Vol. 10 No. 1 (1983)

“Editorial: Our Tenth Year”
“The irresistible Word (Amos)” by D. Hans Walter Wolff
“I Too Shall Bloom” by Steve Liechti
“Silence: Forming and Transforming Ministry” by Steven D. Olson
“An Immigrant Church Coming of Age: The Present situation of Catholic Theology in the U.S.A” by Ronald Modras
“The Electronic Church: its Vision of the Kingdom” by Bernhard A. Asen
“Inside Updike’s Rabbit Trilogy” by Jan Gallagher
“The Poor and the Church: A Review Article” by Herbert T. Mayer
“The Lutheran Name Dilemma” by Charles Dickson
Briefly Noted
Surprise Package IV
Vol. 9 No. 6 (1982)

“Editorial: Why This Jubilee?”
“Beginnings and Ends (The Spirituality of Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany)” by Jay C. Rochelle
“Paul’s Advent Doxologies” by Herbert T. Mayer
“A Baptismal Crossing” by Robert W. Bertram
“How I Would Use Messianic Prophecy in Advent” by Holland Jones
“An Angel, A Holy Family, and A Tree A Trio for Christmas” by James Hugh Drury
“Ah Joseph” by Kenneth Schroeder
“What This World Needs Now” by Donald Hinchey
“Moments – A (Brief) Homily for Christmas” by Steven D. Olson
“Good Old Joseph” by Paul Bauermeister
“A Christmas Soliloquy” by William Urbrock
Book Reviews
Becoming Human in New Community
Vol. 9 No. 5 (1982)

“Editorial: If Luther Were Alive Today”
“Becoming Human in New Community” by Elizabeth and Jurgan Moltmann
“Interpreting the Old Luther” by Helmar Junghans
“Liberated Leader: Masters and “Lords in Biblical Perspective” by Ralph W. Klein
“The Confessors Meet Aristotle” by Hans Zorn
“Unpublished Prophets” by James A. Rimbach
“A Book Worth Discussing: On The Way to A Christology – Comments on Schillebeeckx’ Christ” by David Truemper
Book Reviews
Latin American Undocumented Women
Vol. 9 No. 4 (1982)

“Editorial – Toward a Fall Program”
“Latin American Undocumented Women in the United States” by Richard E. Jaech
“A Liberated Lifestyle: Slaves and Servants in Biblical Perspective” by Ralph W. Klein
“Being Of, For, and With: The Ontological Prepositions of Pastoral Care” by Paul Bauermeister
“Alternative Accents in Evangelism” by Robert Schmidt
Ministering to the Elderly in Nursing Homes” by John W. Ribar
“The Funeral Service: Grace in Grief” by Kenneth J. Doka
“Lay-ups” by Jean Gralley
Book Reviews
Briefly Noted
The Pedestrian Controversy One Hundred Years Later
Vol. 9 No. 3 (1982)

“Editorial – Life is a Supermarket”
“The Predestinarian Controversy One Hundred Years Later” by Edward Busch
“The Ambiguity of History: Help from (the Maker of) Heaven and Earth” by Kosuke Koyama
“Why Inflation Hurts: Some Psychological and Theological Perspectives” by Thomas E. Ludwig and David G. Myers
“How Can People Under Thirty be Taught Law/Gospel Theology?” by Robert Conrad
“Prophets in Conflict – Who Speaks for God?” by James A. Rimbach
Books Worth Discussing
Book Reviews
Briefly Noted
The Roots of the Moral Majority: Fundamentalism Revisited
Vol. 9 No. 2 (1982)

“Editorial: Let’s Go Back to the Bible”
“The Roots of the Moral Majority: Fundamentalism Revisited” by David Edwin Harrel, Jr.
“Markan Baptismal Theology: Renaming the Markan Secret” by Frederick A. Niedner
“A Note From History” Ewald Hinck
“The Alcoholic Personality — A Human Problem” by John W. Ribar a
“One World, O God” by Norbert E. Hattendorf and Paul Manz
Book Reviews
Briefly Noted
Spiritual Stances the the Cure of Souls - Hitting and Missing On Purpose
Vol. 9 No. 1 (1982)

“Editorial- The Year of the Vote”
"Spiritual Stances the the Cure of Souls - Hitting and Missing On Purpose” by Paul Bauermeister
“Worship, Doctrine, and Life: Liturgical Theology, Theologies of Worship, and Doxological Theology” by Frank C. Senn
“Toward Politically: Informed Love” by Stephen P. Bouman
Why Church History” by Jon Diefenthaler
“Christianity and China” by Wi Jo Kang
“That They All May Be One — Theology for Unity” by David G. Truemper
“Jonah, Joel, and Jones” by Holland Jones
“From Dan to Beersheba: A Trustworthy Guide” by Edgar Krentz
Book Reviews
Lutheran Confessional Heritage and Key Issues in Theology Today
Vol. 8 No. 6 (1981)

“Editorial: Oh, rest beside the weary road And heat the angels Sing”
“Come, O Lord Our God” by Robert Buckley Farlee
“The Christmas Cycle: Historical Origins, Traditional Practices, and Contemporary Possibilities” by Frank C. Senn
“Stringing Popcorn” by Jan Gallagher
“A Christmas Crossing, John 1:1-18” by Robert W. Bertram
“Suite for Advent/Christmas (With AFTERTHOUGHTS for Epiphany)” by James H. Drury
“Human Mary, Mother of God” by Jessica Crist
“Empathy” by susan kay folks
“On Stones and Benefactors” by Frederick W. Danker
“Advent” by susan kay folks
“Advent Questions” by Patrick Hansel and Alison Leitzel
“How Can the Church Better Respond to the Needs of Single Persons at Christmas?” by Anne Nuechterlein
“Advent Lay” by Frank D. Janzow
“Hymns for the New Age” by David H. Stohlman
“The Grief of Christmas” by Maynard E. Stokka
“Thy Kingdom Come: Some Recent Work on Mark’s Gospel” by Robert Smith
“Soon Very Soon” by David H, Benke
Book Reviews
The Lutheran Confessional Heritage and Key Issues in Theology Today
Vol. 8 No. 5 (1981)

“Editorial: Supply-Side Theology”
“The Lutheran Confessional Heritage and Key Issues in Theology Today” by Carl E. Braaten
“Facing Up to Two Career Marriages” by Carolyn Lorenz Utech and David A. Utech
“Reformation and Reason: A Sermon for the Festival of the Reformation” by David W. Lotz
“Birth Control, Personalism, and the Pope” by Ronald Modras
“Lutherans and Episcopalians: A Progress Report” by Cyril M. Wismar
“Control, Death and Healing: A Probe of Alcoholism” by John W. Ribar
“Does Our Theology of Work Need Reworking?” by Carol Lois Haywood
“Those Lively Prophets — Joel Ben Pethuel” by James A. Rimbach
“A Love Song of Protest” by David A. Preisinger
Book Reviews
A Lutheran - United Methodist Statement on Baptism
Vol. 8 No. 4 (1981)

“Editorial: The Church Alive!”
“A Lutheran - United Methodist Statement on Baptism”
“The Question of Non-Baptized” by Herbert Hoefer
“Asking the God Question: Pastoral Counseling with a Crown on Your Head” by Paul J. Bauermeister
“What Happened to Values?” by David J. Ludwig
“Stress in the Ministry: Can We Fight Back?” by Alan C. Reuter
“Pastoral Care of Cancer Patients and their Families” by Omar Stuenkel
“Lutheran Roots for Small Group Ministry” by David Zersen
Books Worth Discussing
Book Reviews
Worship in the Perspective of World Lutheranism
Vol. 8 No. 3 (1981)

Editorial: Generic Editorial
“Worship in the Perspective of World Lutheranism” by Eugene L. Brand
“Theses Toward a Lutheran Theology of Call” by Richard Jungkuntz
“The Call to Prophetic Ministry: Reflections on Jeremiah 1:4-10” by Lyn Mehl
“A Parable for Birdwatchers and Other Seekers” by Dennis Jacobsen
“The Bomb in the Pew: The Armes Race as pastoral Concern” by John F. Backe
“Infant Communion. Part III: Reasons for its Restoration” by David Pearcy
“Dreams and their Theological Significance in the Biblical Tradition” by Robert Gnuse
What Will it Take to Reform the Prison System?” by Gary Blobaum
“Offguard” by Lyn Mehl
“Divided” by Ruth Bretscher Ressmeyer
Books Worth Discussing
Book Reviews
Lutheran Union
Vol. 8 No. 2 (1981)

Editorial: Making it a Priority
“Convergence in Mission = Union” by Kenneth C. Senft
“Toward Oneness in Life and Mission — A Vision of Lutheran Unity” by C. Thomas Spitz
“Vision of a House United” by Walter R. Wietzke
“Preaching as Theology” by Richard Lischer
“A Book Worth Discussing: Daniel and Aline Patte Structural Exegesis: From Theory to Practice” by Ronald W. Roschke
Book Reviews
The Revelation of John
Vol. 8 No. 1 (1981)

Editorial: Uh- Huh! Unh- Unh!
“The Revelation of John: An Apocalyptic Response to a social Crisis” by Adela Yarbro Collins
“Settlers and Sojourners: Americans and Their Land” by Richard E. Wentz
“Tensions in Norwegian Lutheranism” by Frederick Hale
“Stewardship as a Life-Style” by Hugh George Anderson
“Job As Drama: Tragedy or Comedy?” by William J. Urbrock
Books Worth Discussing: Louis Martyn. History and Theology in the Fourth Gospel. The Gospel of John in Christian Tradition
“Raymond E. Brown. The Community of the Beloved Disciple” by Robert Smith
“The Role of the Augsburg Confession Catholic a and Lutheran Views” by David Paap
Book Reviews
Surprise Package II
Vol. 7 No. 6 (1980)

Editorial: Welcome te Earth, O Noble Surprise Package!
“Apology” by Jan Gallagher
“A Sign for You” by Robert Smith
“Let Us Share the Father’s Blessing” by Thomas W. Shaefer
“Advent Lament” Mike Sherer
An Epiphany Crossing — Programming Matthew 2:1-12 for Readers Today” by Robert Bertram
“Free Flowing Reflections on Luke 2:1-20 — From A First Century Perspective” by Paul Meyer
“Caesar’s Decree (Luke 2:1-2) Puzzle or Key?” by Robert Smith
“An Alternative Christmas— Let it begin with you!” by Mary Schramm
“Getting Religion Back into Christmas” by Elmer N. Witt
“An Advent Banner” by Michael Hiller
“Surprising Christmases” by Hubert Beck
“a Resurrection Christmas” by H. H. Mirly
“Philip of Hesse: Militant Confessor” by Kurt K. Hendel
Book Reviews
Volume 7 Index
Early Christians Middle Class?
Vol. 7 No. 5 (1980)

Editorial: A Poor Perspective
“Were the Early Christians Middle Class? A Sociological Analysis of the New Testament” by Robert H. Smith
“Who Benefits? Who Has the Power to Decide? The Cause and Relief of Poverty” Frances Moore Lappe
“The Christian and the World’s Poor” by David Beckmann
“The Gospel Train Out of Corinth” by Harry Coiner
“Augsburg Confessors, Elector John of Saxony: Steadfast Confessor” by Kurt K. Hendel
“The Last Judgement: Twentieth Century Style” Kenneth Haugk and William McCay
A Book Worth Discussing: Ralph W. Klein,
“Israel in Exile: A Theological Interpretation”
A Book Worth Discussing: Ernst Christian Helmreich,
“The German Churches Under Hitler”
Book Reviews
Crisis and Community in the Gospel of John
Vol. 7 No. 4 (1980)

“Editorial: Christians and Other People”
“Crisis and Community in the Gospel of John” by Adela Yarbro Collins
Christian Self-Understanding and the Other Religions” by Theodore M. Ludwig
“Hans Küng – Catholic? by Ronald Modras
“North American Responses to Liberation Theology” by Ralph Moellering
“American's Democratic Society and the Authority of the Church” by Jon Diefenthaler
“Those Lively Prophets—Zephaniah Ben-Cushi” by James A. Rimbach
“John Bugenhagen: Confessor Behind the Scenes” by Kurt K. Hendel
“A Book Worth Discussing: James M. Childs, Jr. Christian Anthropology and Ethics” by Gary M. Simpson
Childs Replies
Book Reviews
The Shape of our Context
Vol. 7 No. 3 (1980)

“Editorial: Change in All Around I See”
“The Shape of our Context” by Martin E. Marty
“Reading the Augustana from the Reformed Tradition” by Arthur C. Cochrane
“Traditional Religion in Southern Appalachia” by Richard A. Humphrey
“Infant Communion Part II: Present Barriers to the Practice” by David F. Pearcy
“Truth: A Biblical Word Study” by James A. Rimbach
“Martin Luther: Impatient Confessor” by Kurt K. Hendel
Book Reviews
The Augsburg Confession in the United States
Vol. 7 No. 2 (1980)

Editorial: Taking Stock of Lutheranism
Chapter 1: The Augsburg Confession and Denominational Identity Establishing Lutheran Identity in The United States Prospect
Chapter 2. The Augsburg Confession and Church Life
Corporate Worship
Order and Organization
Programs and Materials
Social concern
Chapter 3. The Augsburg Confession and Ecumenical Relations
Past
Present
Prospect
Chapter 4. The Augsburg Confession and the Act of Confession
Bibliography
Book Reviews
Women’s Liberation in the Church
Vol. 7 No. 1 (1980)

“Editorial: Theology Ought to Add Up”
“The Case for Women’s Liberation in the Church” by Ruth Eres Ressmeyer
“The Church and Human Rights: Reflections on Morality and Mission” by James M. Childs, Jr.
“Process Theology and Lutheran Priorities” by Lyman T. Lundeen
“Whose Authority? For What End?” by George F. Lobien
“Infant Communion Part I: The Historical Practice” by David L. Pearcy
“The Rural Prophet: Micah” by Bruce V. Malchow
“Augsburg Confessors Philip Melanchthon: Controversial Reformer” by Kurt K. Hendel
“A Letter 1 in Depth” by Carol Lois Haywood
A Book Worth Discussing
Book Reviews