Creeds and Councils

  Some people identify themselves as non-creedal Christians. They reject the historic Christian creeds and confessions in favor of what they might call a more “authentic” or “biblical” Christianity. There are also Christians who have ...

Frederick the Wise

  It seems strange that much of the life of one of the men who saved the Lutheran Reformation is, in Wellman’s words, “unseen.” We think we know so much about Frederick the Wise, the ...

Antony of Egypt

  In the main part of this book, St. Athanasius (the author) and Friar Haase (the peppy modern paraphraser) present, as a model of “spiritual formation” (19, 21) for us to imitate, the life story ...

Lutherans in America

  The subtitle is fascinating: A New History. In our day and age, we have gotten used to getting the “true” story about this, that, or the other historical event or person. Myths (pious or ...