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May 2017

May 31, 2017

C.F.W. Walther on the Mystical Union and Pentecost

The time of Pentecost is one in which the church has the opportunity to speak...

May 06, 2017

The Podcast is Back

This past month, the podcast has been unexpectedly on hiatus. The reason for this is...

November 2015

November 12, 2015

What is the Ordo Salutis?

I posted a youtube video answering the question: What is the ordo salutis? Watch it...

October 2015

October 30, 2015

Lecture on the Mystical Union

My second lecture from the 2015 Just and Sinner Conference is now available. It is...

October 08, 2015

Kretzmann on the Mystical Union

These comments come from Paul E. Kretzmann's commentary on Ephesians 3:14-19. The commentaries can be...

September 2015

September 12, 2015

Reframe?!: Is Kim Davis Actually Proclaiming Christ’s Free Forgiveness of Sins?

Post by Nathan Rinne Rod Dreher is saying that the Kim Davis case is a...

May 2015

May 12, 2015

Justification and Christification Lectures from the Imago Dei Conference

These are my two lectures from the Imago Dei conference held at Holy Trinity Lutheran...

January 2015

January 28, 2015

Moral Formation in Christian Worship

One of the contemporary Lutheran theologians that I have been very impressed by is Gifford...

January 14, 2015

A Brief Response to Kolb and Arand on Theosis

An excerpt from a book I'm currently writing: In the context of active righteousness, Kolb...

November 2014

November 21, 2014

"God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who is the eternal and essential righteousness, dwells by faith in the elect…"

The following quote is taken from a comment by Rev. Dr. Holger Sonntag from an...

November 18, 2014

Christ Dwells Within Us, And We Should Be Talking About It.

I often hear Lutherans say things like: "It's not about Christ in us, but Christ...

November 05, 2014

Johann Gerhard on the Mystical Union

This is a short selection of citations from Gerhard's Sacred Meditations (the edition put out...

November 05, 2014

Defining Christification

There has been some extensive discussion surrounding my book on Brothers of John the Steadfast...

September 2014

September 18, 2014

Revere Franklin Weidner on Mystical Union

First: As has already been stated, we may conceive of an order in the work...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

The Place of Union with Christ in the Ordo Salutis

There has been some recent discussion on the "What Would Pless Read?" group on facebook...

July 23, 2014

Christification: A Lutheran Approach to Theosis, now available!

My new book Christification: A Lutheran Approach to Theosis is now available from Wipf &...

July 12, 2014

Forensic Atonement and "Partaking of the Divine Nature"

[The following essay has been excerpted from personal correspondence and was originally posted at Pseudepigrapha:...

June 2014

June 20, 2014

Joseph Stump on the Mystical Union

Originally found at this link. There is a mystical union of God and the believer,...

June 17, 2014

Carl Lindberg on Mystical Union

The new life, brought about by regeneration, is evidenced in the fact that God dwells...

June 17, 2014

A Translation of David Hollaz on Mystical Union

This a (very rough) translation of sections of David Hollaz's chapter on mystical union in...