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		<title>Structural Engineering the ELCA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Christianson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ELCA, facing budget shortfalls, is forced to restructure it's churchwide organization.  But the restructuring is flawed with misplaced priorities and a failure to address the real structural problem it faces.]]></description>
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		<title>The Proper Place of the Law: What of Antinomianism?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Christianson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the debates over human sexuality and the related discussions, the charge is frequently made by conservatives and traditionalists that the ELCA has drifted into antinomianism (rejecting the law). That charge has been unsurprisingly leveled once again by Robert Benne in the winter 2009 edition of Lutheran Forum in an essay titled &#8220;The Hazards of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Reconfiguration of Lutheranism. Really?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Christianson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the conservative, traditionalist, and dissident group Lutheran CORE released it&#8217;s vision for what the group&#8217;s press release called &#8220;the reconfiguration of Lutheranism in North America.&#8221;  It calls for the establishment of a new church body with the suggested name of the North American Lutheran Church. The description of this vision can be found here: [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Sola Scriptura</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Christianson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on his blog Liturgy, Bosco Peters (an Anglican priest in New Zealand) has an item about the notion of sola scriputra on the occasion of the Anglican commemoration of the 16th Century English theologian Richard Hooker. For many, both historically and today, the phrase is taken at face value, as a literal statement of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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