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February 4, 2015 by Matthew Frost

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, […]

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Joseph Sittler Archives

February 4, 2015 by Melvin George

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 […]

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Book Review: The Eloquence of Grace: Joseph Sittler and the Preaching Life

February 4, 2015 by Melinda Quivik

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 […]

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Remembering Joe Sittler

February 4, 2015 by Wayne Miller

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 […]

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As I See It: Joe Sittler, Me and Liturgy

February 4, 2015 by Frank C. Senn

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 […]

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The Sittler School of Theology

February 4, 2015 by Martin Marty

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 […]

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Joseph Sittler, Theological Aesthetics and The Chicago School

February 4, 2015 by Panu Pihkala

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. […]

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Joseph Sittler as Theologian of the 21st Century

February 4, 2015 by Robert Saler

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 […]

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