Here I Stand: An Online Forum of Faith and Reason is the Theological Weblog for The Institute of Lutheran Theology.
The Institute of Lutheran Theology is an independent, pan-Lutheran theological project, holding that God in Jesus Christ brings sinners to repentance and new life. Committed both to Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions, and to deep dialogue with the contemporary intellectual horizon, the Institute works with supporting congregations to educate the next generation of faithful Lutheran preachers and teachers.
Theological Values
These are the five foundational theological principles which shape our curriculum and thinking:
- Theological Realism: God is real and exists beyond human awareness, conception and language. Accordingly, we do not pray to ourselves, but to a real God.
- Semantic Realism: God’s gift of language enables us make truth claims about God. Human emotion, thought and language do not ultimately determine what is true or false about God.
- Theophysical Causality: God can and does act in the world. Divine action must not be construed as mere metaphor.
- A Lutheran Theology of Nature: Conversation with science and technology furthers our recognition that God expresses God’s self in the natural order in ways that inform our understanding of the divine.
- The Internal Clarity of Scripture: God’s revelation is expressed clearly in Holy Scripture, whose words can be understood by the reader as the Holy Spirit interprets their meaning.
Here I Stand does not accept unsolicited articles for publication. All comments to published articles will be review by editorial staff prior to posting. Here I Stand maintains two columns: Theological Standing & Standing on the Issues.
Articles in Theological Standing are solicited from serious scholars in the areas of theology, philosophy, and biblical studies.
Articles in Standing on the Issues are intended to address issues in the world and the church from a Confessional Lutheran Perspective.
