Here’s a happy one! Rev. Dr. Jonathan Naumann, a wonderful theologian and LCMS missionary at the Lutheran seminary in the Dominican Republic, just received a festschrift in honor of his fortieth anniversary of his ordination! It is aptly titled, With Angels and Archangels. 😀
Essays include:
- Eric R. Andrea’s “God is in our Midst! All Theology is Ecclesiology?”
- Neil Guthrig’s “Pastoral Visitation”
- Theodore Krey’s “A Comparison and Contrast of Modern Missionary Efforts Amongst the Protestants and Catholics in the Era of the Voyage of the Discovery: Examining the Theology of Mission, It’s Methods, and the Influence of Enlightenment”
- Brian A Naumann’s “On Earth, as it is in Heaven”
- David N Naumann’s “Angels and War”
- Edward A Naumann’s “The Divine Call and the Limits of Silence”
- Gordon S> Naumann’s “The LIfe of a Pastor and His Unseen Help”
- Nigel D. Naumann’s “When a Foreign Language is no Longer Foreign”
- Jon Olson’s “Lutheran Liturgy is Divine Service”
- David Peterson’s “Luther’s Theology of Prayer: A Tribute to Jonathan Naumann”
- John Pless’s “Herman Sasse’s Confession of the Holy Spirit”
- David Preus’s “Angels as Mediators of Natural Law? An Inquiry concerning . . . [sorry, but it’s a Greek phrase that isn’t copy and pastable into my blog post] in Galatians 4”
- David P. Scaer’s “The Harrowing of Hell”
- Tapani Simojoki’s “Fed by Christ: The Role of the Pastor and the Congregation in the Liturgy”
- John Stephenson’s “To Anaphorise or NOt to Anaphorise, That is the Question”
- Willian Weedon’s “Oremus”
- Tom Winger’s “What’s Right for the Rite? Theological Discernment in Matching Music to the Liturgy”
Do I even need to say Jonathan Naumann is a good and faithful man, full of wisdom and love of Jesus? 🙂
So get the book! And you know what else you can do? You can go here to support his current work!