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Category: Commentary

Guy F. Hershberger and Reinhold Niebuhr on Christian love

Posted on June 19, 1997April 5, 2014 by Gerald Schlabach

Will the Real Augustinian Please Stand Up? Conference on “Anabaptists in Conversation: Mennonite and Brethren Interactions with Twentieth-Century Theologies,” 19-21 June 1997.  Young Center for the Study of Anabaptist and Pietist Groups, Elizabethtown (Pa.) College. Agapeism and Hershberger Niebuhr and Augustine Sacrificial and Mutual Love Could Mennonite Theology Be Augustinian? Notes Agapeism and Hershberger In…

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Dissertation

Posted on April 12, 1996November 16, 2020 by Gerald Schlabach

For the Joy Set Before Us: Ethics of Self-Denying Love in Augustinian Perspective Jean Porter, Director Department of Theology University of Notre Dame April 1996 Abstract Table of contents Defense presentation Appendix on Anders Nygren Order dissertation, # 96-21773 from UMI Published by U of Notre Dame Press Dissertation copyright © 1996 by Gerald W….

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Beyond two- versus one-kingdom theology

Posted on October 5, 1993April 5, 2014 by Gerald Schlabach

Abrahamic community as a Mennonite paradigm for Christian engagement in society by Gerald W. Schlabach Conrad Grebel Review 11 (Fall 1993): 187-210. The Need for a Paradigm Paradigm Shift? Or Paradigm Breakdown? Sifting Through Two- and One-Kingdom Theologies Two-Kingdom Theology: Strengths and Limitations One-Kingdom Theology: Strengths and Limitations A Partial Integration Beyond Two- Versus One-Kingdom…

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Friendship as adultery

Posted on December 5, 1992April 5, 2014 by Gerald Schlabach

Social Reality and Sexual Metaphor in Augustine’s Doctrine of Original Sin Augustinian Studies 23 (December 1992): 125-147. The Death of a Friend Through Death and Friendship Social Transmission, Social Procreation Conclusions Notes The only joy to be attained had the fragile brilliance of glass, a joy outweighed by the fear that it may be shattered…

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Law, gospel and the irony of Martin Luther

Posted on November 19, 1992April 5, 2014 by Gerald Schlabach

Theo 635: Theology of Martin Luther, University of Notre Dame, 19 November 1992 Erasmus. “On the Freedom of the Will [De Libero Arbitrio].” Luther, Martin. “On the Bondage of the Will [De Servo Arbitrio].” In Luther and Erasmus: Free Will and Salvation, translated and edited by Ernest Gordon Rupp, in collaboration with A. N. Marlow….

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The blessing of Abraham’s children

Posted on December 5, 1991April 5, 2014 by Gerald Schlabach

A theology of service Mission Focus 19:4 (December 1991): 52-55. In January 1986 Samuel Escobar, an evangelical leader from South America, was guest speaker at the annual meeting of the Mennonite Central Committee, the main North American Mennonite agency for relief, development and global education. After listening to a lengthy discussion of how MCC workers…

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