Disputationes

It was regular practice in the medieval university for faculty and students to engage in the art of disputation. This blog presupposes the corporate nature of the theological enterprise, supposing that theology, particularly Lutheran theology, can once again clarify its truth claims and provide rational justification for its positions.

Wednesday, May 03, 2023

What does it mean to be the Christ School of Theology?

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As many readers might know, the Institute of Lutheran Theology's seminary and graduate school is called the Christ School of Theology, a...

Saturday, April 29, 2023

Model-Theoretic Considerations for Theological Semantics

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I I have for many years been convinced that the theological enterprise cannot survive in our age without affording to its language robust tr...

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Thursday, April 06, 2023

Extensionality, Description and the Question of Good Works: Towards An Anomalous Monergism?

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The great American philosopher Donald Davidson (1917-2003) wrote the following about causality: The salient point that emerges so far is t...

Sunday, March 19, 2023

On Rabbits and Christology

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The philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine schooled us on the indeterminacy of translation using the example of a tribesman speaking the unknow...

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Sunday, March 05, 2023

Worlds and Difference: Theology in an Ecstatic Age?

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I. When the World Was What it Was Once upon a time in the west we believed that there was a world that existed apart from us. There were ma...

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Wednesday, December 14, 2022

On the "That" and "What" of Abortion

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I In the High Middle Ages, e sse was routinely distinguished from ens . While the latter refers to a being, the former concerns the "t...

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Dennis Bielfeldt: Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States; President of the Institute of Lutheran Theology and Director of the Christ School of Theology PhD Program

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