Currents in Theology and Mission articles

Recent articles from Currents in Theology and Mission

A time of transition.
April 1, 2009... In the fall of 1974, my academic Dean, John Damm, asked me to take over the duties of editing Currents in Theology and Mission. Currents is a descendant of the Concordia Theological Monthly (CTM), the journal of the faculty of Concordia Seminary that began in the 1930s. When the Missouri...

The Old Testament and public theology.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2009... I. What is public theology and why should we practice it? Luther sets the standard for us as a theologian who was never shy about sounding off in the public square. He exploited the new technology of the printing press to expand what one might call the consumer audience for theology in...

Reading the Old Testament with Martin Luther--and without him.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2009... The Lutheran Heritage Lecture Series at LSTC seeks to discover what it might mean in the twenty-first century to be faithful--and critical!--daughters and sons of the Lutheran Reformation of the 16th century. An old Latin proverb went this way ecclesia semper reformanda, that is the church is...

Reggae reveals Church involvement in slavery.(Report)
April 1, 2009... It was a little more than 200 years ago this year, specifically on March 25, 1807, that the Abolition of the Slave Trade was passed in Britain, thus marking the beginning of the end of the virulent capturing and transporting of African people to be the slaves of the white plantation owners in...

The reason for studying African Religion in post-colonial Africa.(Report)
April 1, 2009... Culture, as Jesse Mugambi (1) observes, has six main pillars: politics, economics, ethics, aesthetics, kinship and religion. And out of these, religion "is by far the richest part of the African heritage." (2) It shapes their cultures, their social life, their politics, and their economics...