Isn’t that what the Eastern Orthodox believe in? Aren’t we Lutherans different? If you say that you believe in theosis, does that mean you are veering towards Orthodoxy? Is that perhaps what your series of posts, If all theology is Christology, how wide the divide: a reflection on Lutheranism and Eastern Orthodoxy, is actually getting at? Yes. Yes. No. No (if you still doubt me take a look at my post Lutherans are *not* boring: Why Lutheran pastor William Weedon... Read more
In this second Episode on the Five Points of Calvinism, the pseudepodcasters were successful in their attempt to pluck the three remaining petals from the acrimonious TULIP flower, but at great cost of time. Listen for Trent’s Germanic beer sensibilities, the sound of a tree falling in the forest with no one around to hear it, and the perseverance of St. Matt in making his voice heard on the fifth and final point. If you missed our previous discussion on... Read more
So, what have I done in the title of this post? I have taken what has become a common phrase in our current environment: “the right side of history”, and have combined it with J.R.R. Tolkien’s idea of “the long defeat”. Inspiration for this came this morning, after reading a couple excellent blog posts by the Eastern Orthodox priest Father Stephen Freeman (see here and here – long-time readers of my blog posts know that I try to read some... Read more
There has been a fair amount of misrepresentation of Lutheranism by Lutherans in recent days and weeks — on the internet, of course, or how else could I make such a statement? Clairvoyant, I ain’t. Anyway, these misrepresentations are by no means original or unprecedented (in fact they are quite common), but they are still very much worth addressing. I do not wish to go word for word with the misrepresenters so much as point out two things: A) what these... Read more
On today’s program I responded to an article by Federal Vision leader Rich Lusk titled “Why the Law/Gospel Paradigm is Flawed,” which can be found here. The program mostly centered around the relationship between the Mosaic Law and the Abrahamic promise. Here is the program. Read more
Pseudepodcast would like to thank Pr. Peter Bender, the Concordia Catechetical Academy, and Rev. Dr. Richard Stuckwisch for graciously allowing us to air Dr. Stuckwisch’s talk. Featured material: The Concordia Catechetical Academy thinking-out-loud | Rev. Dr. Stuckwisch’s blog Gottesdienst Online | A Blog of the Evangelical Lutheran Liturgy +SDG+ Read more
My new book Christification: A Lutheran Approach to Theosis is now available from Wipf & Stock! Here is the description: The doctrine of theosis has enjoyed a recent resurgence among varied theological traditions across the realms of historical, dogmatic, and exegetical theology. In Christification: A Lutheran Approach to Theosis, Jordan Cooper evaluates this teaching from a Lutheran perspective. He examines the teachings of the church fathers, the New Testament, and the Lutheran Confessional tradition in conversation with recent scholarship on... Read more
reposted from a Facebook conversation from awhile back; starting in medias res… Catholicam, while it does mean universal, also means “whole.” (Technically, “ecumenical” more literally means “universal.”) With that said, it is important to confess the catholicity of the Church for the simple reason that the opposite of “Catholic” is not “Protestant” but rather “sectarian” or “schismatic.” Thus the weekly (or daily) confession of our belief in the catholicity of the one holy Church does indeed testify to the brethren,... Read more
We have some exciting news for the coming weeks! Along with the relaunch of the website, and the adding of new staff, we are going to be releasing more books, more frequently. Many of you have asked about when the next books are coming out, and we have good news for you! From July 28th through August 1st we will be releasing one book per day. The week is going to begin with the release of the first volume of... Read more
From today’s New Testament reading from the daily lection (Treasury of Daily Prayer): Then [the jailer] called for a light, ran in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. And he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.” Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his... Read more
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