The Rapture Exposed was recently featured in The Lutheran.
It was written by Barbara Rossing who teaches New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. In her book she discusses the Theology behind the Left Behind Series which is felt to be heretical and very young. This Theology is commonly referred to as Dispensationalist and Rossing fears its infringement into Mainstream Denominations. Rossing feels that this Theology presents an escapist morality, a Triumphalism condemned by the Lutheran Church, as well as promoting horrid Middle East policy. See More on this book
Written by Minnesota's Own Gregory Boyd, the author of the popular Letters to a Skeptic, the Myth of a Christian Nation expresses the concern of an Evangelical Pastor with the church becoming too connected to any political or National ideology claiming that when it does it is disastrous for the church and harmful to society. In this book Boyd explains differences in the forms of Godly vs. worldly power as the difference of a power over force and a power under love. In this book he challenges many of the Evangelical convictions of America being a "Christian Nation" or of Christians trying to "take America back for God." Go to the Website on this book and the sermon series by Greg Boyd
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, Theologian, and participant in the German resistance movement against Nazism. Involved with Karl Barth and others, he helped to establish the Confessing Church and its resistance to the state Protestant Reich Church. Are there similarities today with aspects of the American Church and the Protestant Reich Church? Is there a similarity anytime the church becomes too connected to ANY Nation or national ideology?
Go to my Page on Dietrich Bonhoeffer
ELCA Pastor Paul E. Wee, author of American Destiny and the Calling of the Church, has held numerous positions in the Lutheran World Federation, the Lutheran center in Wittenberg, and the Lutheran School of World Ministries. His book, American Destiny and the Calling of the Church is used by professors in ELCA colleges and was recently mentioned in The Lutheran.
In a post-Cold War, post-9/11 world the United States has been thrust into a position of global leadership with awesome responsibility. People of the church are called upon, not simply to accept but to help define the U.S. role. Based on biblical/theological/ confessional norms, the ideology our country adopts needs to be understood and critiqued by people of the church. It is urgent that congregations, in a bipartisan spirit of openness, subject this issue to debate in the public forum. The author's approach to the issue is based on a three-fold commitment — to the centrality of the gospel, to the ministry of the church, and to the responsible role of the nation in the world. ---(Amazon Review) Links to proposed courses of action presented by Paul E. Wee
Facing Terrorism by Edward Le Roy Long
I haven't read this book but it was recommended by a St. Olaf College Professor whom received his Ph.D. in Theological Ethics from the University of Chicago
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