Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary: Recent submissions
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From Sola to Soli: Focusing Faithfulness for Excellence in the Pastoral Ministry
(2018)There is a question every pastor must ask himself every week: “Have I been faithful?” Faithfulness is God’s standard for his servants, but what exactly constitutes faithfulness may be another question. This thesis seeks ... -
The Role of Apologetics in Witnessing to Mormons
(2018)Over the last two years, Apologia Church, led by reformed pastor and apologist Jeff Durbin, has posted a number of videos on YouTube of Durbin witnessing to Latter-Day Saints on the streets of Tempe, AZ. Thousands of people ... -
Crisis Counseling and the Lutheran Pastor and Congregation
(2018)Crisis is an unavoidable part of life in a world damaged by sin. A pastor and congregation must be prepared to help fellow believers through crises. This thesis will first seek to explain the factors that lead up to a ... -
Leveraging the Lutheran Legacy
(2018-02-19)This conference essay seeks to examine how Martin Luther and his successors impacted the singing assembly during the Lutheran Reformation and give an honest assessment of the challenges to maintaining a distinctive ... -
An Overview of Addiction and Addiction Treatment with a Special Focus on the Opioid Epidemic
(2018)For at least 20 years the United States has been in the midst of a severe opioid problem. The problem escalated rather gradually at first, but in the last 10 years it has grown significantly. With the current state of ... -
Race and the Lutheran Pastor
(2018)Discussions about race and power structures permeate today’s society. Because of their sensitive and sometimes controversial nature, these discussions are often avoided in the Christian church. Recently, however, scholars ... -
Applying the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM) to the Text of the Old Testament: An Evaluation
(2018)The goal of this research is to apply the Coherence Based Genealogical Method (CBGM) to the Old Testament. Deuteronomy 5 was chosen to evaluate this method. This method is being used to evaluate General Epistles in the ... -
Evangelizing Millennials: Studying Millennials to Understand How Relationships through Friendship Evangelism are the Best Way to Bring the Gospel to Their Culture
(2018)If you look online, in a library, even on a newsfeed, you’ll very easily find resources that are dedicated to studies of the current millennial generation. Millennials are a hot topic of study right now as they become ... -
Treasuring the Beauty of Jesus' Parables: Structure, Function, and The Fallacy of Adolf Julicher's One-Point of Camparison
(2018)This thesis aims to contribute to current exegetical practices. It will provide clarifying definitions and connect their associated terms to visual models. These models, in turn, will demonstrate the structure and function ... -
Encouraged by the Evidence: Preaching the Gospel Motivation Strategy found in First John
(2018)What motivates believers? The gospel, of course—the good news about the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. But when preachers use the same stock gospel phrases week after week in the sanctification-focused segments ... -
Teaching the Doctrine of Church Fellowship in a Chinese Context: A Western Perspective
(2018)This paper investigates various methods of teaching church fellowship to a Chinese audience. While appropriation of Christian doctrine properly belongs only to the work of the Holy Spirit, he calls Christians to teach ... -
Biblical Text Messages: The Effect of Bible Software on Seminary Students
(2018)Practitioners of media ecology study the powerful influence media exert on human perception. Research has discovered that digital technologies, such as computers and smart phones, interact with the plasticity of the human ... -
Through Different Eyes: A Restrospective Examination of the Breakdown of the Synodical Conference
(2018)The break in fellowship between the LCMS and the WELS was a messy affair. In many ways it resembles a divorce. Many churches, families and friendships were divided in the break up. As with a divorce, each child had their ... -
Martin Luther's Theology of Justification. A Response to the New Finnish Interpretation of Luther
(2018)In his writings, Martin Luther strove to present justification as the glorious gift that it is: God’s free forgiveness given on the basis of Jesus’ sacrifice for sinners. The Lutheran Confessions rightly maintain this ... -
Honor Y Verguenza: Understanding Honor and Shame in Latin America
(2018)The spectrum of guilt-shame-fear cultures has been studied by anthropologists for some time now. However, more recently Christian missiologists have begun to study the benefits and challenges each of these cultures ... -
The Importance of Impacting iGen: Ministering to Generation Z Through Websites and Social Media
(2018)Millennials are no longer the newest generational cohort. Generation Z is on the rise. This generation grew up knowing technology before learning to speak. They have mastered the smartphone, but has the smartphone ... -
Martin Luther and the Happy Inconsistency
(2018)This study explores some of the significant historical events in Martin Luther’s life that provide insight into his understanding and application of the term “happy inconsistency.” It is specific to Luther’s interactions ... -
Awakened to Confessional: The Doctrinal Development of F.C.D. Wyneken and its Place in the Course of Lutheranism in America
(2018)Friedrich Conrad Dietrich Wyneken: the "Father of Lutheran Home Missions," the inspiring voice which led to the influx of hundreds of pastors to America and the establishment of seminaries in two continents, the leader ... -
Divine Call - Human Protocol. An Evaluation of Calling Practices within the Christian Church
(2018)God directly called prophets and apostles to proclaim his Word. While God no longer directly calls Christians to proclaim his Word, he still calls individuals to do this work publicly – that is among and on behalf of ...