Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary: Recent submissions
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"Speaking the Truth in Love": Philosophies for Addressing Same-Sex Attraction in WELS High Schools
(2025)Navigating discussions around same-sex attraction in educational settings requires a balance of doctrinal fidelity, pastoral care, and cultural awareness. This thesis explores the philosophies and approaches used within ... -
AI Associate: Examining Artificial Intelligence and Its Potential Impact on the Pastoral Ministry
(2025)Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming many fields, including public ministry, offering tools that can reshape the way pastoral work is carried out, while maintaining its theological essence. This thesis ... -
Lutheran Theosis? Key Similarities and Differences between the Mystical Union and Eastern Orthodox Theosis
(2025)In the Eastern Orthodox Church salvation is not a judicial decree. Rather salvation is a synergistic process known as theosis. Through this process of theosis, a believer is made to be more and more like God through the ... -
"Christ-Centered Learning for Christ-Centered Living": A History of Michigan Lutheran High School
(2025)This paper explores the rich history of Michigan Lutheran High School, highlighting the school's establishment, key developments, and significant events over the decades. Featuring interviews with former students, teachers, ... -
How Instruments Enhance the Singing of the Psalms
(2025)Instruments have played a significant role in the history of the church’s songs by helping people sing praises to our God. From ancient times, instrumentalists accompanied people to sing the Psalms — the Bible’s hymnbook. ... -
The Road to Manhood: A Christian Response to Toxic Masculinity
(2025)Roadmaps are essential for finding the way through difficult and treacherous terrain. Our world today is full of treacherous terrain surrounding the topic of toxic masculinity. It has coalesced into two main arguments. On ... -
Luther's Restoration of the Status of Women
(2025)Within the circles of the Wisconsin Synod, the status of women in the church is a subject of regular discussion. From generation to generation, the question of the roles that women play in the church continues to be ... -
Through the Lens of Brenz: How Lutheran Christology Is Not Actually Lutheran
(2025)This thesis explores the Christology of Johannes Brenz and its significant influence on the development of Lutheran theology, particularly through the lens of its departure from Martin Luther’s original teachings. Brenz, ... -
How Do We Protect Those Who Serve and Protect Us? Moral Injury: The Horrific Spiritual Injury That Our Public Safety and Military Experience
(2025)Many of our service members and first responders are suffering from an invisible injury that impacts their souls: moral injury. Closely related to trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), moral injury is distinct ... -
We Need to Talk: The Need for Christian Parents to Actively Educate Their Children About Sex
(2025)The main purposes of this project are to illuminate the shortcoming by many Christian parents to talk with their children about sex and encourage parents to embrace their important role to do so. Parents educating their ... -
Feasting on the Story: The Sacrament of Holy Communion Through the Lens of the Narrative Paradigm
(2025)This study aims to show a theological application of the narrative paradigm and its effectiveness in interpreting the Bible’s narrative context. The narrative paradigm is a proposal from communication scholar Walter Fisher ... -
Principles of the Early Catechumenate for Modern Catechists
(2025)As the religious landscape of America continues to shift, churches may reevaluate their processes for initiating the people who desire to join their membership. The early catechumenate presents a different approach to ... -
Rebuilding the Broken Bond: Counseling Couples in Crisis After An Affair
(2025)Pastors face difficult and complex cases in counseling throughout their ministries. One of the more complex and increasingly frequent counseling cases is marital infidelity. When a spouse has an affair, the marriage bond ... -
Called To Care: A Lutheran Dialogue with the Scriptural Hermeneutics of Laudato Si'
(2025)In the list of current social and economic discussions in the world, the topic of environmentalism ranks highly. World leaders meet to discuss how to alleviate climate change, activists vocally protest the use of nonrenewable ... -
Wisconsin Synod Proceedings 1927
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Wisconsin Synod Proceedings 1925
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Wisconsin Synod Proceedings 1923
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Wisconsin Synod Proceedings 1921
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Wisconsin Synod Proceedings 1920
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Wisconsin Synod Proceedings 1919
(Northwestern Publishing House, 1919)