John Pless is the Assistant Professor, Pastoral Ministry and Missions—Director of Field Education at Concordia Theological Seminary...
From his work he has a strong interest in mission and the divine service, and writes from a confessional view point.
Following are some articles/essays that John Pless has written that maybe of interest to you:
Ceremonies For Seekers: Catechesis As A Fundamental Criterion For Worship In The Lutheran Confessions
The Divine Service and the Mission of the Church
Divine Service: Delivering Forgiveness of Sins
Liturgy and Evangelism in Service of the Mysteria Dei
Liturgy and Pietism: Then and Now
The Lord's Service To Us
Taking The Divine Service Into The Week: Liturgy And Vocation
What Your Eating and Drinking at this Altar Confesses
Paper - The Lord's Supper in the Life of the Congregation PDF
if you can suggest other mission oriententated academics I would be delighted to include them on this site.
2 comments:
I read and loved J.T. Pless' great book "Handling The Word Of Truth" but some of these articles of his are unbalanced diatribes against a culture (Lutheran Pietism) he is obviously antagonistic towards. I do believe (contra Pless) that Lutheran Pietism can be a good an useful counterweight to Lutheran Orthodoxy... after all, if it weren't for Lutheran Pietism I would not have come to faith and followed a call to be a pastor. Then again, if it were not for Lutheran Orthodoxy my theology would have remained quite shallow. No balance of this kind in the writing of Pless.
Funny...
John Pless sent a lot of men to seminary who are now pastors, and that, without Pietism.
Theology isn't a pendulum or balance of political ideologies. It isn't about reason vs. emotion, but faith in what God reveals in His Word.
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