SIMUL
Editor’s Note Welcome to our third issue of SIMUL, the journal of St. Paul Lutheran Seminary. This edition will discuss Luther’s two kingdoms theology, the distinction between the realms of law and gospel. In this issue, Robert Benne offers a “Paradoxical Vision” which provides a “Lutheran nudge” for correctly This edition understanding law and gospel as a framework for will discuss public theology. Marney Fritts explores the Luther’s Two eschatological relationship of the two kingdoms, Kingdoms, the plumbing Luther’s theology from his Lectures on distinction Galatians (1535) and The Bondage of the Will between Law (1525). John King proposes a multiperspectival and Gospel. approach for Christian morals using a metaethical model developed by John M. Frame. And Phil Anderas completes the discussion, tweaking the two kingdoms approach for the sake of evangelism in the twentyfirst century. Our Theological Conference This past April, we had an amazing conference in Jekyll Island, GA. For those who have never been there, Jekyll Island was a hunting and beach club for the rich and famous in the
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Jekyll Island Club