As Lutheran As It Gets

Our text: Faith Victorious: An Introduction to Luther’s Theology (Lennart Pinomaa) - http://amzn.to/2E3ZEC3

Bio: Lennart Pinomaa - https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Pinomaa

Show Notes:
- Predestination (Reformed) - https://www.theopedia.com/predestination
- Ani Difranco - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ani_DiFranco
- Air Quotes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_quotes
- Freewill (song) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freewill_(song)
- Gojira (band) - http://www.gojira-music.com/
- Animals as Leaders - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_as_Leaders
- History Buffs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_as_Leaders
- Cinema Sins - https://www.youtube.com/user/CinemaSins
- Honest Trailers - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL86F4D497FD3CACCE
- Benny Hinn – Dark Lord of the Sith

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Our Text: Luther and the False Brethren (1975) From 1522 to his death in 1546 Luther clashed with a succession of major evangelical opponents. First there was Karlstadt, then Müntzer, then Zwingli, Oecolampadius, Bucer, and the other sacramentarians, then John Agricola, and finally Kaspar Schwenckfeld and once again the Swiss sacramentarians. For the most part, these opponents accepted the central reformation principles and assumptions that differentiated evangelicals from Catholics.* At the same time, they came to conclusions different from Luther’s on issues such as acceptable ceremonial practice, the real presence in the Lord’s Supper, the separation of secular and spiritual authority, and the relation between law and gospel. As it happened, they were able to convince a large number of evangelicals to accept their positions, and, consequently, they posed a major challenge to Luther’s version of the gospel message and to his authority within the reformation movement. There are several ways in which controversies between evangelicals and Catholics differed strikingly from controversies among evangelicals. In controversies between evangelicals and Catholics, Luther usually made an effort not to attach his name to the beliefs he espoused when challenged by other evangelicals, he occasionally supplemented his theological arguments with claims about himself and his special role in the reformation movement. In controversies between evangelicals and Catholics, each side accused the other of satanic motivation and exchanged the vilest personal abuse; in controversies among evangelicals, the accusations of demonic possession and the ad hominem abuse tended to come more from Luther than from his opponents. Again and again Luther accused Zwingli, Oecolampadius, Bucer, Agricola, Bullinger, and Schwenckfeld of being false brethren and lying hypocrites, but these men generally acknowledged that Luther was a fellow Christian even though he erred. And although Catholic and evangelical opponents alike attacked Luther’s authority, whereas the Catholics attempted to discredit it entirely, the evangelical opponents rarely asserted that Luther had no legitimate authority, insisting only that Luther, like any other man, could be in error. Bio on Mark U. Edwards

Other References of Interest:  The Thinking Fellows – C.S. Lewis Commentary on Romans – Philipp Melanchthon The Toys that Made Us (Netflix) Questions? Comments? Show Ideas? Send them to us at http://higherthings.org/contact.

If you’re so inclined, we’d suggest reading the excerpt first as a sort of secret decoder ring. Our Text: Bound Choice, Election, And Wittenberg Theological Method: From Martin Luther To The Formula Of Concord (Lutheran Quarterly Books), Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005.

“Luther took the hidden God seriously for a number of reasons. Without the admission that there is more to God than meets either eye or ear, God could be tamed, measured, managed within the realm of the human ability and possibility to judge. From the human perspective God remains God because human creatures are creatures as well as sinners, and it is not possible for the product of God’s creative words to master knowledge of the Creator.

“…In the Heidelberg Disputation Luther had focused first on the blank wall created by the impossibility of the human creature’s, to say nothing of sinner’s, conceptualizing of God, just to prove that with fallen eyes no one can see God. With fallen human ears no one can return to the Edenic hearing of his Word. Then Luther focused very sharply on God in his revelation of himself (John 1:18): no one has seen God, but Jesus of Nazareth, God in the flesh, has made him known: a God with holes in his hands, feet, and side; the God who has come near to humankind, into the midst of its twisted and ruined existence” – Robert Kolb, Bound Choice, pg 36. Rev. Dr. Robert A. Kolb Biography Extraneous 

References:  Ocelot Theodicy
Myers–Briggs Type Indicator
Sleestak Victory (1981)

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how Notes: 
You can read more from Dr. Veith at his blog: Cranach - http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/

Or read God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life - http://amzn.to/2F2ohix

Check out this recent episode of the Thinking Fellows podcast: Vocation Revisited -https://www.thinkingfellows.com/blog/2017/12/15/episode-99-vocation-revisited

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Our text: Luther on the Practice of Piety – Dr. John Kleinig - http://www.johnkleinig.com/files/4614/3401/0360/Luther_on_the_Practice_of_Piety.pdf

Show Notes:
- Levitius Commentary – Dr. John Kleinig - http://amzn.to/2ksDd3M
- Violence and the Sacred (1972) – René Girard - http://amzn.to/2B7SePs
- The Outsiders by Don Spaulding - http://htlcms.org/2008/06/insiders-and-outsiders/
- A Simple Way to Pray – Luther - http://amzn.to/2B82I1q
- Problem of Suffering: A Father’s Hope – Gregory F. Schultz - http://amzn.to/2iLnt85
- The Unforgiven (1992) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105695/
- Saxon Visitation Articles - http://bookofconcord.org/visitation.php

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Show Notes

- Heinrich Bornkamm - Luther and the Old Testament - http://amzn.to/2BzjUdd
- Werner Herzog - Cave of Forgotten Dreams - http://amzn.to/2BzjUdd
- WKRP - Thanksgiving Episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg

Show Notes
- James Kittleson - Luther the Reformer - http://amzn.to/2i4OSF5
- Thucydides - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides
- Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins - http://Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
- MacBeth - Ian McKellen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpKWWK0Pj34

Show Notes:
- Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther - http://www.lutheranhistory.org/presidents/pres_walther.htm
- Perry County Missouri - https://lutheranmuseum.com
- Law and Gospel: How to Read and Apply the Bible - http://amzn.to/2z0Eqlt
- Thesis XXV - Lecture 39 - http://lutherantheology.com/uploads/works/walther/LG/lecture-39.html
- Flacius - How to Understand Sacred Scriptures - http://amzn.to/2hDsJtB
- John Travolta - Angel (search for it)
- Wife of Manoa - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges+13&version=ESV
- Young Men and Fire - Norman Maclean
- Tuvan throat singer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_5yt5IX38I
- Joseph Campbell - The Hero with a Thousand Faces - http://amzn.to/2yZK8E9
- Wide Open Stand the Gates - Löhe - http://Wide Open Stand the Gates - Löhe

Show Notes:
- BONDAGE OF THE WILL - Packer Johnston - http://amzn.to/2ymCyTx
- Heiko Obermann - http://amzn.to/2zuSAOC
- Kittleson - http://amzn.to/2zuoTxj
- Martin Luther: His Road to Reformation 1483-1521 - http://amzn.to/2AxL1oo
- Martin Luther 1521-1532: Shaping and Defining the Reformation - http://amzn.to/2iIzb2S
- Martin Luther The Preservation of the Church Vol 3 1532-1546 - http://amzn.to/2AxL1oo
- Erasmus of Rotterdam - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/erasmus/
- Karlstadt - https://reformation500.csl.edu/bio/andreas-bodenstein-von-karlstadt/
- Jack Horner - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Jack_Horner
- Sulaman the Magnificent - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suleiman_the_Magnificent
- Stick-shift - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual_transmission
- Mother Angelica - http://www.ewtn.com/motherangelica/
- Elysian Fields - http://www.ewtn.com/motherangelica/
- Gladiator - https://itunes.apple.com/US/movie/id397380075
- Living with the Gods (BBC 4) - https://itunes.apple.com/US/movie/id397380075
- Perkins - http://www.perkinsrestaurants.com
- Quest Peanut Butter Protein Powder - http://amzn.to/2zJp34B
- Walter White - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h-iAZBtNrs
- Horatio Alger - http://amzn.to/2zJp34B
- Charlie Brown Football - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=055wFyO6gag
- Mike Meyers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=055wFyO6gag