LutheranPhilosopher

Toward a Lutheran Philosophy of Teaching, Scholarship and Academic Freedom

These are select published journal articles in which I offer arguments for what I call an "academics-plus" model for Lutheran professors and also apply the biblical and Lutheran understanding of the divine call into the public ministry to provide a principled understanding of what it means to be a called Lutheran professor -- in terms both of the professor's and the Lutheran institution's responsibilities.

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   Two Principles for Lutheran Teaching and Scholarship

   
   

   http://www.lutheranphilosopher.com/documents/Two%20Principles%20for%20Teaching%20and%20Scholarship%20by%20Gregory%20Schulz%20-%20LOGIA%202005.pdf
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   Truth Is Not Objective

   
   

   http://www.lutheranphilosopher.com/documents/Truth%20is%20not%20Objective%20(G.%20Schulz).pdf
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   On Terminating the Church's Professors

   
   

   http://www.lutheranphilosopher.com/documents/On%20Terminating%20the%20Churchs%20Professors%20(LOGIA%202010).pdf
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   LutheranPhilosopher.com Reading List (version 1.0)

   Let's make a beginning. In response to my brother pastors, students and home schoolers who have asked for a reading list to "get into" Philosophy, here is a first run.
   

   http://www.lutheranphilosopher.com/documents/LutheranPhilosoper.com's%20Reading%20List.pdf
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Sermons in a Philosophical Key

In my experience, philosophy is not a component of Lutheran seminary training. It ought to be. Philosophy is a necessary condition of our theological education if we are to make intelligent use of Lutheran tradition. Further, philosophy ought to be prized as a means for us Lutheran pastors to be faithful as preachers of God's Word in our twenty-first century world.

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   What We Can Learn from Unformed Substances

   
   

   http://www.lutheranphilosopher.com/documents/What%20We%20Can%20Learn%20from%20Unformed%20Substance%20(Psalm%20139).pdf
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   Who Am I?

   
   

   http://www.lutheranphilosopher.com/documents/Who%20Am%20I%20(Psalm%208).pdf
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   The Way Up, The Way Down -- One and the Same Person

   
   

   http://www.lutheranphilosopher.com/documents/Way%20Up%20and%20Way%20Down,%20One%20Person.pdf
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Articles and Recommended Books

This is a catch-all category where I post some of my university papers, book reviews and mentions of books, mine and others', as well as book excerpts that are of interest for philosophical and Lutheran thinking.

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   Wednesday's Child - book cover (Wipf & Stock 2011)

   Released about a year ago, this is an academic title with implications for religious and theological understandings of concience and our human being. It is available at www.amazon.com and also from my publisher, Wipf and Stock at www.wipf&stock.com.
   

   http://www.lutheranphilosopher.com/documents/Schulz.%20Wednesdays%20Child%20-%20cover.pdf
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   The Successful Man (Bonhoeffer)

   
   

   http://www.lutheranphilosopher.com/documents/The%20Successful%20Man%20(Bonhoeffer)-1.pdf
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   The Problem of Suffering, 2e - book cover (CPH 2012)

   This book has been the subject of interviews at www.Issues, Etc. and at KFUO. It is available from www.amazon.com and also from my publisher, Concordia Publishing House at www.cph.org. A Companion CD for pastors and Christian caregives is also available.
   

   http://www.lutheranphilosopher.com/documents/Problem%20of%20Suffering%20-%20book%20cover.pdf
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