LOGIA: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Holy Trinity 2016

by Gene Edward Veith Jr., Michael Berg, Wade Johnston

Introduction
Wade Johnston

ARTICLES

God's Presence in His Temporal Kingdom
Gene Edward Veith

Life, Liberty, and Flourishing
Michael Berg

We Must Obey God Rather Than The Lutheran Legacy of Resistance
Wade Johnston

A Tale of the Two Church-state relations in Latvia since 1900
Voldemars Laucins

Should We Rejoice in the End of Christendom? A Law-Gospel Approach to the Rise of Western Secularism
Jack D. Kilcrease

Doctrine and Worship in Ethiopia
Frederic W. Baue

REVIEWS

Theology as Science in Nineteenth-Century From F.C. Baur to Ernst Troeltsch
By Johannes Zachhuber. Review by James Ambrose Lee II

History of Christian Dogma
By Ferdinand Christian Baur. Translated by Robert Brown and Peter Hodgson. Review by Jack Kilcrease

Who Chose the Gospels? Probing the Great Gospel Conspiracy
By C.E. Hill. Review by Jack Kilcrease

Hanging by a The Hidden God in the Theology of Oswald Bayer
By Joshua C. Miller. Review by Jerome Klotz

Postilla (1613), Teil 1, 1. Advent bis Judica
By Johann Gerhard. Review by Armin Wenz

The Saving Doctrine for Laypeople
By Kurt E. Marquart. Review by Timothy Koch

LOGIA FORUM

Free-Standing A Reformation Ideal
Ecclesial Boats on Stormy Seas
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Do Christians Worship Allah?
Bo Giertz's Hammer of God and the Proper Distinction between Law and Gospel
A Sermon on Psalm 46

Kindle Edition

Published November 6, 2016

About the author

Gene Edward Veith Jr., is the Culture Editor of WORLD MAGAZINE. He was formerly Professor of English at Concordia University Wisconsin, where he has also served as Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences. He is the author of numerous books, including Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture, The Spirituality of the Cross: The Way of the First Evangelicals, and God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life.

Postmodern Times received a Christianity Today Book Award as one of the top 25 religious books of 1994. He was named Concordia's Adult Learning Teacher of the Year in 1993 and received the Faculty Laureate Award as outstanding faculty member in 1994. He was a Salvatori Fellow with the Heritage Foundation in 1994-1995 and is a Senior Fellow with the Capital Research Center. He was given the layman’s 2002 Robert D. Preus Award by the Association of Confessional Lutherans as “Confessional Lutheran of the Year.”

Dr. Veith was born in Oklahoma in 1951. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1973 and received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Kansas in 1979. He has taught at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College and was a Visiting Professor at Wheaton College in Illinois. He was also a Visiting Lecturer at the Estonian Institute of Humanities in Tallinn, Estonia. He and his wife Jackquelyn have three grown children and live in Cedarburg, Wisconsin.