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Tag: Biography

Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven

by: barbara.rickaby@wisluthsem.org May 29, 2018Shepherd's Study0

  Sir John Eliot Gardiner is one of the world’s leading conductors. He is particularly well-known known for his work with Baroque music, especially the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. He founded the Monteverdi Choir ...

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Four Branches November 2017

by: barbara.rickaby@wisluthsem.org Nov 15, 2017Four Branches0

Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical   Exegetical Theology: The Text Shapes You The text shapes you; you don't shape the text." And even though that truth had been repeated so much in Senior year ...

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Four Branches October 2017

by: barbara.rickaby@wisluthsem.org Oct 31, 2017Four Branches0

Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical   Exegetical Theology: Find the Structure “Everyone did what was right in his own eyes” (Ju 17:6). If you followed my advice in the last article and “excised the ...

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Four Branches September 2017

by: barbara.rickaby@wisluthsem.org Sep 20, 2017Four Branches0

Jump to: Exegetical Systematic Historical Practical   Exegetical Theology: Excise the Extras The New Testament textual critic, David Parker, once wrote: Let us consider what it is to which a reader responds. It is a ...

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Review: Letters to Lutheran Pastors

by: barbara.rickaby@wisluthsem.org Nov 11, 2013Shepherd's Study0

Letters to Lutheran Pastors, Volume 1 (1948–1951), by Hermann Sasse. Edited and Translated by Matthew C. Harrison. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2013. 480 pages. Hermann Sasse (1895–1976) was a German Lutheran pastor and professor. ...

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Review: Defending the Faith

by: barbara.rickaby@wisluthsem.org Aug 30, 2013Shepherd's Study0

Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America, by D. G. Hart.  Phillipsburg, New Jersey: P & R Publishing Co., 2003.  227 pages. Hart has served as director ...

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Review: Johann Kilian, Pastor

by: barbara.rickaby@wisluthsem.org Feb 26, 2013Shepherd's Study0

Johann Kilian, Pastor: A Wendish Lutheran in Germany and Texas, by George Nielsen. Serbin, TX: Texas Wendish Historical Society, 2003. 84 pages (149 with appendix, notes, index, etc.). George Nielsen taught American History at Concordia ...

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Review: Luther: Man between God and the Devil

by: barbara.rickaby@wisluthsem.org Oct 26, 2012Shepherd's Study0

Luther:  Man between God and the Devil, by Heiko Oberman, translated by Eileen Walliser-Schwarzbart. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. 330 pages (380 with notes, index, etc.). (German original: Luther: Mensch zwischen Gott und Teufel. ...

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Review: C.F.W. Walther: Churchman and Theologian

by: barbara.rickaby@wisluthsem.org Oct 5, 2012Shepherd's Study0

C.F.W. Walther: Churchman and Theologian, by Christoph Barnbrock, Thomas Egger, Alfonso Espinosa, Jeffrey Holtan, and Charles Schaum. Saint Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House, 2011. 195 pages. Commemorating Walther’s 200th birthday, this book has been published ...

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Review: Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

by: barbara.rickaby@wisluthsem.org Aug 20, 2012Shepherd's Study0

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, by Eric Metaxas. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2010.  608 pages. The reader may be familiar with the work of Eric Metaxas, even without knowing so. Before he authored this “New York ...

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