2020 issue of Lutheran Theological Review

CANADA – Lutheran Church–Canada’s (LCC) two seminaries have published the latest issue of Lutheran Theological Review.

“This journal exists to serve Lutheran Church–Canada, whose name reflects her confession and context,” notes Rev. Dr. Thomas M. Winger in an editorial foreword to the issue. “But the challenges that face contemporary Lutheranism in Canada are not unique to this country. This is witnessed by two articles written by close colleagues in our sister church, the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany (SELK)… We face many of the same anti-Christian, demonic forces; and we must confront them with the same timeless Christian faith so well confessed by our Lutheran forefathers.”

“This journal exists to serve Lutheran Church–Canada, whose name reflects her confession and context,” notes Rev. Dr. Thomas M. Winger in an editorial foreword to the issue. “But the challenges that face contemporary Lutheranism in Canada are not unique to this country.”

Volume 31 features two short studies: Rev. Dr. John R. Stephenson’s “‘Love, You Made Me in the Image’: or, How Good Hymns Need Matching Tunes”; and SELK Bishop Hans-Jörg Voigt’s “Response to Medical Assistance in Dying.”

Feature articles include: Peter Daniel Fawcett’s “Where the Villains Hang Out: Themes of Reversal in II Samuel 17-18”; Rev. Richard F. Juritsch’s “Responding Pastorally to the Transgender Movement”; Rev. Dr. Werner Klän’s “Lutheran Identity in a Post-Christian Context: A European Case Study”; and Rev. Dr. John R. Stephenson’s “The Motif of Sacrifice in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms of the Roman Mass.”

The issue also features a sermon by LCC Past President Robert Bugbee: “When the Gospel Heart Beats (1 Tim. 2:1-7).”

You can download every issue of Lutheran Theological Review for free online at https://concordia-seminary.ca/ltr/.

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