Please click on any of the name links below to jump directly to that preacher’s sermon manuscript for Advent 1C. Rev. Kim Beckmann Rev. Melissa Bills Rev. Antonio Cabello Rev. Erik Christensen Rev. Jon Dumpys Rev. Michael D. Fick Rev. Julie Eileen Ryan * * * 1. Rev. Kim Beckmann Grace to you and peace […]
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Commentary on the Texts for the First Sunday of Advent, Year C
1 Thessalonians 3:9-13 This passage from 1 Thessalonians, the oldest book in the New Testament, was written by Paul to the people of Thessalonica after he had left that little community and moved on. Paul emphasizes his strong ties with these new believers in many ways. He repeats the word “you” over and over again […]
“Without” Hope? Internality and Externality in Preaching Difficult Texts
Within the realm of Christian theology (both as academic discipline and as reflection that fuels the life of the church), a great deal depends on the intellectual frameworks that are brought to bear on particular issues. As in the sciences, the same data can give rise to differing conclusions depending on the analytical framework to […]
Archive
Brief typed pieces Joseph Sittler, untitled comments on how the church plans for its own future, typescript with secondary comments in two hands, 1 page, undated (text suggests during tenure at U of C, so 1957-73). PDF, 846K Joseph Sittler, “Reflections on Christmas in Church,” typed and hand-marked sermon mss, 4 pages, Dec. 1974. PDF, […]
Joseph Sittler Archives
When we were students at Northwestern University in the early 1950’s, Meta (now my wife) and I first met Joe Sittler. Our Lutheran campus pastor at Northwestern, Clyde McCormack, used to invite Joe up to Northwestern to speak to our student group. We were fascinated by Joe. It was from him that I learned that […]
Book Review: The Eloquence of Grace: Joseph Sittler and the Preaching Life
The Eloquence of Grace: Joseph Sittler and the Preaching Life. Edited by James M. Childs, Jr. and Richard Lischer. Eugene, Ore.: Cascade Books, 2012. xiii +325 pp., refs., index. $32.00 pb. This book is a gem. For both the dried-out preacher who needs some slaking and the one who is forever whittling theological nuances, the […]
Remembering Joe Sittler
During my middler year at LSTC I was a commuter student, which meant that, in order to beat the traffic, I was often sitting in the refectory early in the morning sipping coffee and reading. It was not uncommon in those years to find Joseph Sittler sitting at one of the small tables looking out […]
As I See It: Joe Sittler, Me and Liturgy
This issue of Let’s Talk is a retrospective on the life and work of Joseph Sittler, “our Chicago theologian,” as one of our board members called him. I offer to the mix of articles this reflection on my own relationship with Joe and how he contributed to my vocational decision to become a liturgist long […]
The Sittler School of Theology
At a recent convocation on Joseph Sittler, I was asked to comment on his University of Chicago years, which ended in 1973. I had studied with him toward an S.T.M. degree at the old Chicago Lutheran Theological School in Maywood from 1952-1954, after which I went for the Ph.D. at the University, 1954-56. After receiving […]
Joseph Sittler, Theological Aesthetics and The Chicago School
For Joseph Sittler, aesthetics — broadly defined — was one of the key elements in theology. The development of Sittler’s theology offers highly interesting views into the relationship between “Chicago School” theology and other theological movements. Sittler, influenced by both traditional Lutheran theology and liberal theology, in an early phase becomes a kind of neoliberal. […]
Joseph Sittler as Theologian of the 21st Century
To a large extent, Joseph Sittler was a theologian of his time and place. While his reputation as an academic theologian is not sufficient to place him among the giants of 20th-century theology (in the manner of, say, Barth, Tillich, Rahner, or von Balthasar), his life and work do serve to reflect many of the […]
Frank Answers 45: Resurrection Bodies
Question: I have read one theory about the resurrection that we will come back as our best possible selves, say, 30 years old and healthy. What form of ourselves do you think we will come back as? Will I have my tattoos? Answer: The paradigm for our resurrection bodies is the risen body of Jesus. […]
Book Review: Blackfire: The Books of Bairnmoor, Volume 1 by James Daniel Eckblad
Blackfire: The Books of Bairnmoor, Volume 1. James Daniel Eckblad. Eugene, Ore.: Resource Publications, 2012. 268 pp., $30.00 pb. “Elli Adams lived as if she were always leaving . . .” begins Eckblad’s elaborate and vibrant tale of four children who are called into a perpendicular world in order to save it.1 As in most […]
Book Review: Honoring The Body – Meditations on a Christian Practice by Stephanie Paulsell
It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was introduced to Dorothy C. Bass’ thoughtful and tremendously practical compilation Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People. If my memory serves, it was required reading for a required seminary class on Spiritual Practices. Two “requireds” usually meant that my resistance was well-founded. […]
On the Way: The Unwalled City
Running is the asceticism of our age. It is tempting to gape at the peculiar excesses of the Christian past; extreme fasts, lengthy silences, brutal penances and extravagant pilgrimages all feel very odd and distant to us today. And it is likewise tempting to wonder where, if anywhere, that drive to a seemingly superfluous discipline […]
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