This project addressed the lack of a covenant defining the practice of hospitality towards children for team members of Westview Boys’ Home. The purpose of the project was to facilitate the creation of such a covenant. The Westview... more
This project addressed the lack of a covenant defining the practice of hospitality towards children for team members of Westview Boys’ Home. The purpose of the project was to facilitate the creation of such a covenant. The Westview ministry team already claimed hospitality as a strength; the hope was that reframing the ministry around this strength would improve the quality of care for children and the quality of life for the community. Invited into a communal discernment process (the methodology), the ministry team invested weeks in the examination of biblical texts, theological tradition, personal and communal narratives, cultural trends, psychological data, and sample covenants. These conversations worked toward the development of a local theology of hospitality. The location and definition of principles and practices of hospitality funded the communal composition of a covenant. Process and covenant affirmed and strengthened the ministry team’s ability to function as a hospitable...
A look in the life of David and how he understood and practiced worship and the benefits thereof that ho reaped as a function of his deep love and pursuit of God pursued through a life of worship despite his other flaws and challenges.... more
A look in the life of David and how he understood and practiced worship and the benefits thereof that ho reaped as a function of his deep love and pursuit of God pursued through a life of worship despite his other flaws and challenges. In a sense it clearly demonstrates that pursuing God is not for a certain group of people but anyone who hungers and thirsts for him and goes ahead to walk, work and witness for God through worship.
Drinnon, Roger A. “The Source and Application of Thomas Müntzer’s Theology of Divinization in His Marginal Notes on Tertullian.” Thesis, Concordia Seminary, 2021. 101 pp. Traditional Lutheran and Marxist interpretations of Thomas Müntzer... more
Drinnon, Roger A. “The Source and Application of Thomas Müntzer’s Theology of Divinization in His Marginal Notes on Tertullian.” Thesis, Concordia Seminary, 2021. 101 pp. Traditional Lutheran and Marxist interpretations of Thomas Müntzer inadequately account for Müntzer’s theology and practice. The doctrine of the order of creation tied Müntzer’s theology and practice together. According to the order of creation, the goal of the material world was to return to God at the end of time. Müntzer’s writings on the order of creation stated the doctrine was the central tenet of Christianity. By returning to God, Müntzer believed the creation would become divinized. Müntzer found this doctrine in the works of the North African Church Father Tertullian and used Tertullian’s writings to justify to his own attempt to divinize society and bring about the apocalypse
Recorded June 18, 1986 at the Summer Workshop on Music, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. Traces Luther\u27s thoughts and practice of the liturgy as well as the opinions and judgments of scholars on Luther\u27s practice
