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Papers by Rev. Dr. Robert D. Preus

– Basis for Concord

– The Doctrine of the Call in the Confessions and Lutheran Orthodoxy

– Rock Strata and the Bible Record

– Applying the Scriptures

– Clergy Mental Health and the Doctrine of Justification

– The Doctrine of Election as Taught by the Seventeenth Century Lutheran Dogmaticians

– The Doctrine of Justification and Reconciliation in the Theology of Karl Barth

– The Doctrine of Justification in the Theology of Classical Lutheran Orthodoxy

– Justification of a Sinner Before God

– Luther and the Doctrine of Justification

– Perennial Problems in the Doctrine of Justification

– Significance of Luther’s Term “Pure Passive” as Quoted in Article II of the Formula of Concord

– Theology of the Cross Part One & Two

– Theology of the Cross Part Three & Four

– Vicarious Atonement in John Quenstedt

– Current Theological Problems which Confront Our Church, 1961

– Biblical Authority in The Lutheran Confessions

– Doctrine of Revelation in Contemporary Theology

– How is The Lutheran Church to Interpret and Use the Old and New Testaments?

– Luther and Biblical Infallibility

– Notes on the Inerrancy of Scripture

– Power of God’s Word

– Proceedings of the Conference for Biblical Inerrancy, 1987

– Scripture – God’s Word and God’s Power

– Unity of Scripture

– View of the Bible Held by the Church

– Walther and the Scriptures

– Word of God in the Theology of Lutheran Orthodoxy

– Can The Lutheran Confessions Have Any Meaning 450 Years Later?

– Confessional Lutheranism in Today’s World

– Confessional Subscription

– The Confessions and The Mission of the Church

– Hermeneutics of the Formula of Concord

– Hermeneutics of The Lutheran Confessions and the Historical-Critical Method

– Influence of the Formula of Concord on Later Lutheran Orthodoxy

– Law and Gospel in Early Lutheran Dogmatics from Malanchthon to the Formula of Concord

– Luther – Word, Doctrine and Confession

– Walther the Dogmatician

Papers by Rev Rolf Preus

– Church Fellowship and Closed Communion

– Examination on the Catechism

– Christ and Creation

– What is a Confessional Lutheran

– Women Pastors Bible Class

– Catholic, Protestant, and Lutheran

– Critical Events, Altar Calls, Conversion Experiences, and Other Ways to Avoid a Lifetime Commitment to Jesus and His Word

– How to be a Confessional Lutheran in a Heterodox World

– How to be a Confessional Lutheran Pastor in America Today

– How to Live as a Christian in a Pagan World

– Lutherans in America: A Comparison

– Missourians in Canada?

– On Being a Confessing Church in a Pluralistic Culture

– On Incarnational Theology and High Church Pietism

– Roman Catholicism or Evagelicalism: Which Poses a Greater Challenge to Confessional Lutheranism Today?

– The Legacy of Herman Amberg Preus

– Eating, Drinking and Preaching

– The Relationship Between the Justification of the Sinner before God and the Practice of Church Fellowship

– Making a Clear Confession in Muddy Waters

– The Orthodox Lutheran Heritage of Confessional Fellowship

– “And God Blessed Them”

– Basic Catechesis on the Sixth Commandment

– Childrearing

– Fatherhood

– God’s Gift to Mankind – Marriage by Dort Preus

– Marriage is Not a Cross – Advice for a Long and Happy Marriage

– Patriarchy in Ephesians by Andrew Preus

– Preserving a Christian Home by Dort Preus

– The Fruit of the Womb is a Reward

– Vocation of Christian Marriage and Family

– What God Joins Together: Speaking the Truth in a World of Falsehood

– Chastity

Power, Politics, and the Missouri Synod: A conflict that Changed American Christianity, by James C. Burkee

– The Centrality of the Central Article

– A One Page Comparison of Lutheran and Roman Catholic Teaching on Justification

– Called by the Gospel: Justification and Vocation

– Caught Between Rome and Geneva: The Influence of Catholicism and Evangelicalism in Lutheran Moral Theology Today

– Do Lutheran and Roman Catholics Agree on Justification?

– Forgive Us Our Trespasses as We Forgive Those who Trespass Against Us

– How do Christians Live with God? In Freedom through Faith: Christological Foundation

– Justification and the Sacrament

– Justification as the Center of Christian Theology

– Justification

– Luther Revisited: The Doctrine of Justification is Still the Issue

– Objective Justification

– Should We Teach Objective Justification?

– The Doctrine of Justification in the Theology of Robert Preus

– The Enduring Relevance of the Doctrine of Justification

– The JDDJ Ten Years Later

– The Relationship between the Justification of the Sinner before God and the Practice of Church Fellowship

– What is the Gospel? What Difference Does is Make?

– Bishops: Who Needs Them?

– Did Jesus Institute the Pastoral Office?

– Does the Bible Teach a Limited Public Use of the Keys and Clarifying the Issues

– Instituyo Jesus el Oficio Pastoral Pastor Rolf Preus Traducido por Roberto Alejandro Weber (in Spanish)

– Ministers: What is their job? Who is their boss? Why do we need them?

– The Doctrine of Church and Ministry Today in the LCMS, WELS, and ELS

– The Office of Prophetess in the New Testament

– The Old Ministry Debate in the Synods of the Synodical Conference and in the ELS Today

– The Service of Women in and for the Church

– The Teaching of the Synodical Conference on the Office of the Public Ministry

– Historic Use of Laymen in the Divine Service

– Lutheran Worship Wars, National Conference on Worship, Music and the Arts

– Meta-Church

– Why go to Church?

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C.F.Walther’s Theses on the Ministry with Biblical Proof

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Does God Hate the Sin or the Sinner? by Prof. Walter A. Albrecht

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