The theology of the Laestadian Lutherans is simply set forth here, accessible to the lay reader. Contemporary issues are dealt with, and Scripture is cited to help us all keep discerning a path forward to help our neighbors. Love, sin, grace, images, translation, characters from the Bible, interpretation issues, and many other topics are covered in this brief but comprehensive volume. The reader is challenged in this collection of short essays by a clear and tender theology. We are all asked to be concerned with how we act in our communities and with the person living right next door. We are asked to ponder where we get our answers about issues we are all confronted with in the home, the place of worship, and the workplace. Who is our neighbor? Who are we, really? And where do we go for help? What moral and theological questions are we facing every day? The straightforward biblical theological essays found in this volume guide us to carefully consider our deepest heart thoughts, our God, and the world we live in.
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Alexandra Glynn. Modern Lutheran Theology
Modern Lutheran Theology
Table of Contents
Foreword
The robe of righteousness
To believe as a child
Peter’s exhortation to us
Blind people
Casting us out
Good works in us
Sowing to the flesh and feeding it
Love the stranger
Hypocrites
The children of this world are wiser
He thinks
Shimei
Love and doctrine
Note that man
Only us
Among the gods
Preaching from envy and strife
Death is swallowed up in victory
Choice
Oxen
The hardening of Pharaoh’s heart
The altar and the lamb
I am not the Christ
The fruits of repentance
Lest ye be judged
The lost sheep of the house of Israel
Moses and the rock
The work of theology
Why do bad things happen?
The sin of wanting
Openly and publicly
Comments on Genesis translations
The secrets of men
Visitation for a nation or people
Women as priests
The word “law” in the Scriptures
Have mercy on me
Ministers gone astray
The church law of Christ
Compassion on heretics
The imagination
Your sin will find you out
Thanks and praise
The text feeds
Makeup and earrings
The end of the book of Judges
To never have forgiveness
Jacob and Laban and Esau
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Volume One
Alexandra Glynn
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Simon the Pharisee did not show any respect for the guest. We can imagine what it would be like to come to a house. We are invited as guest to some house, we come, we open the door ourselves, the host says nothing, we hang our jacket on a hook, go into the room. Nobody says anything. All avoid us. We find our own chair. This is how the Pharisee reacted. How is it at summer services? Here, joyful greetings are heard. We meet others that we haven’t seen in years. God’s peace. We have with joy greeted and talked with one another. Greetings have a very great significance. Sometimes the words may not even be heard but it is expressed from the look that I value you, it is good to see you. Even here it is good to see so many of my friends. At this moment there are many friends who have not made it to these services who listen on the radio or on the computer somewhere far away. Someone is on their sick bed; they may not even be able to listen, but there, far away, some friend is remembering her. They say, “Let’s go visit,” and they greet, bringing greetings of God’s peace.
Jesus sent twelve disciples and said: when you go into a house, greet with the greetings of peace, wish them peace; if the guests are not ready to accept the greetings, then return. I thought about this yesterday when I was able to give communion along with many other pastors, and in the end it is said, when releasing, to all communion guests, “Go in the peace of God.” How beautiful it is and how much significance there is in this greeting, “Go in the peace of God.” It may be that greeting someone may be difficult in our daily lives, there are unfamiliar guests; sometimes we might mutter a greeting to someone, but yet take no notice of that person. We do not need to be ashamed, but many times we can be ashamed of greeting. What then if a friend does not greet you? It could be that he didn’t notice you as he walked by. What if the friend does not greet you on purpose? Does he do as the Pharisees did in this story? What does it mean if someone does not greet you with God’s peace? The message related is that you are not considered a believer. If some Christian decides that I will not greet that brother or sister because in my mind he is such a sinner, and that Christian tells others not to greet that person, then he is acting like the Pharisees in this story. We must ask ourselves seriously in connection to this: do we see inside the heart of another person? Jesus saw. But do we? In the same way we must ask seriously before the Word of God, do we see our own condition? Here it is reminded that it is good to learn the history of Christianity. It is good to remember all the beautiful and good, but it is good to learn where the faults/errors have come from, where have the heresies come from. In Christianity during the different phases, in the beginning phases and in the later phases, there have been Pharisees. Man becomes as if he is God. It is a very dangerous doctrine, that we as humans rise up to the level of God. May God protect us from this.
