A new collection of essays, “Stewards of the Mysteries of God—Essays on the Office of the Holy Ministry,” is now available from Repristination Press. The essays were originally written for various conferences and other occasions over the past 17 years, and all of them were authored by the undersigned, who has served as pastor of Salem Lutheran Church (Malone, Texas) since 1998, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America since 2006, and publisher of Repristination Press since 1993. Six essays are included in this volume: • The Office of the Ministry in Nicolaus Hunnius' Epitome Credendorum (A detailed study of the teaching of one of the Lutheran fathers from the Age of Lutheran Orthodoxy as pertains to the office of the ministry) • The Office of the Keys in the Ecclesiology of C.F.W. Walther and the Lutheran Confessions (A comparison of the central tenets of Walther's doctrine of the Church and that which is confessed in the Book of Concord) • Ministry and the Ordained Diaconate in the 16th and 17th Century Lutheran Church (The historic Lutheran understanding of the diaconate is substantially different from that of the Reformed and many modern Lutherans) • Pastoral Responsibility and the Office of the Keys in the Book of Concord (An examination of that aspect of the office referred to as "jurisdiction" in the Augsburg Confession) • Bishops, Councils and Authority in the Church in the Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope (The Treatise was written in the context of an invitation to attend an Ecumenical Council and it was written as a Lutheran response to the claims of Papalists and Conciliarists regarding authority in the Church) • The Future of Ecclesiastical Oversight among Confessional Lutherans (The modern neglect of Visitation and Ecclesiastical Oversight is examined in light of the Reformation-era practices) “Stewards of the Mysteries of God" (ISBN 10: 189146941X; ISBN 13: 978-1891469411) is 188 pages and is available in paperback for $13.95, plus shipping. To order directly from Repristination Press, you may use this link: It is also available by direct shipment from Amazon:
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