ESSE & EVANGEL argues for the necessity of traditional metaphysical understanding for the defense and communication of Christian Faith under postmodern cultural conditions. Following a Preface which summarizes its structure, the book first states its central argument in a brief summary, than considers two kinds of objections to its proposal: postmodern philosophical objections, and historical Lutheran theological ones. A traditional metaphysical perspective is then outlined, under the rubric of philosophia perennis, on the basis of which the modernist-postmodernist objections are rebutted,...

Not long after the murder of my sister, Laura, a local school teacher prompted me to tell Laura's story for the first time to her health students. That school teacher will remember that as I stood in front of them trying to put the story into some logical format, I became sweat soaked and struggled. But, that is where my advocacy began. It was then suggested to me that I write down the words of my presentation and share it with those who may never hear me speak on this topic. The following is my best attempt to capture not only the words, but also the passion of my desire to stop relationship...

This book challenges the claim of the modern sciences to explain the degree of order observed in nature. It argues that a traditional metaphysical perspective is required for the explanation of this order, and derives such a perspective from the book of Genesis. Finally it connects the metaphysics with biochemistry and offers a model of terrestrial biogenesis.

This book assembles the findings of a half-dozen Luther scholars, writing over the past fifty years, regarding mystical and metaphysical themes in the Reformer's thought: Bengt Hoffman, Bengt Hagglund, Heiko Oberman, Sammeli Juntunen, Berndt Hamm and Volker Leppin. The contributions of Hagglund, Oberman and Juntunen are translated from the German for the first time, and all of the collected material is commented on from a metaphysical perspective by the author of this book. Luther is portrayed here, not as a metaphysician, but as a mystical theologian who freely made use of metaphysical...