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Articles by Philip Hefner

The Rev. Dr. Philip Hefner is Professor of Systematic Theology, Emeritus, at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and Senior Fellow at the Zygon Center for Religion and Science.

Frank Senn’s Warning – A Response

May 26, 2016 by Philip Hefner

Since Frank Senn’s response, in Let’s Talk, Volume 2, Issue 1, to my previously published piece goes right to the heart of some crucial issues in our thinking about the ELCA, it is well worth a response and even further discussion. He raises two major issues: the theme of baptism and the question of the […]

Filed Under: Spirituality

Servants Ready to Listen

May 25, 2016 by Philip Hefner

How inspiring it can be to behold a minister in God’s Church who has both an office of authority and the character to exercise that office with integrity. How discouraging it is to watch someone from whom we expect so much, who has lost, or never possessed, the personal qualities it takes to care for […]

Filed Under: Ministerial Formation

How is the Church Necessary for Salvation? The Church as God’s Well of Possibility

May 24, 2016 by Philip Hefner

(These remarks were delivered as part of Dr. Hefner’s contributions to the 1996 Hein-Fry Lectures.) The theme of these three lectures is described by A.R. Ammons in his poem, “Politics”: I look for the way things will turn out spiralling from a center, the shape things will take to come forth in: I look for […]

Filed Under: The Church and Salvation

Lutherans in Hyde Park: An Historical Analysis

January 22, 2015 by Philip Hefner

Hyde Park is very much a company town,’ said Peter Cassel, director of community development for Antheus Capital, which owns more property in the neighborhood than anyone except the University of Chicago. ‘As the University grows, so too does the neighborhood.’”1 Company Town is the leading motif for this reflection on the rich history of […]

Filed Under: Grace in the City

20.1 Lent 2015

The Catechumenate

19.4: Advent 2014

Communion and Community

19.3: Ordinary Time 2014

Green coffee beans (top left), Nicaraguan red beans (top right), corn (bottom left) and millet, vital Nicaraguan crops, held in women farmers’ hands

Food and Justice

19.2: Pentecost 2014

Latvian Wheat by Dace Kiršpile

Growing Leaders

19.1: Epiphany 2014

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