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Gene Edward Veith

This Is My Body

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  • Gene Edward Veith

The author provides the Lutheran understanding of partaking in the Lord's Supper. The emphasis is first on the nature of the presence of Christ in the bread and wine, and then also the significance of a real encounter with Christ in the elements of the Lord's Supper through faith.

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Covenant and Culture

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  • Gene Edward Veith

The author describes most of the lives of believers as closely associated with covenants in one way or another. He focuses on the community of believers who have to learn to keep the covenantal duty of living with others as brothers and sisters together in a covenant community. Other aspects of the covenant life include marriage and parenting.

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The Protestant Work Ethic

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  • Gene Edward Veith

The author focuses on work ethic and traces the understanding of it from the time of the Reformation. He takes into consideration the reasons why the rise of capitalism has been attributed to a change brought about by the new view among Protestants of work ethic.

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Back to Barbarism

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  • Gene Edward Veith

This brief account looks at the period in which Roman civilization ended with the fall of Rome to the barbarians. The subsequent period is known as the Dark Ages, which was short lived as the barbarians were also converted to Christianity, ushering in another historic period that has come to be known as the Medieval period.

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A New Paul?

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  • Gene Edward Veith

The author discusses the New Perspective on Paul, which forms part of the general study of the theology of Paul. The article dismisses a number of its claims, which include that Paul's Christianity is somewhat different from the teachings of Christ.

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Bringing Christ into the Problem

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  • Gene Edward Veith

This article argues that a lot of discussions on theodicy make no reference to Jesus Christ; they simply theorize on the nature of a deity who can scarcely bring meaningful comfort to people. Rather, the problem of evil and suffering in the world should be resolved in Jesus Christ and his cross.

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Confusing Truth and Fiction

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  • Gene Edward Veith

While The Da Vinci Code is a work of fiction, many people believe it to be truth because Dan Brown makes some claims of truth in the book. As a result, some people now claim that the Bible has twisted the history of Jesus. In the end, the actual truth is confused with fiction, and many other deceptions about the truth. A few of them are outlined in this article.

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The Trinity and Culture

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  • Gene Edward Veith

The author of this article attempts to explain and describe what love should be like in a godly relationship. The author does this by using the doctrine of the Trinity, with further applications from a number of errors that are a result of failure to understand this Trinity properly.

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Confounding the Postmodern Mind

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  • Gene Edward Veith

The author discusses the difficulties brought to the church in North America by both modernism and postmodernism. While the fundamentalists did well to stand well against modernists, the subsequent generation of fundamentalists and evangelical fundamentalists are giving in to the persuasions of postmodernism in very subtle ways. This has negatively affected the effectiveness of the gospel they preach.

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The Historical Book

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  • Gene Edward Veith

The author argues against the liberal views that the Bible is a collection of myths or that it is not a historical account. The author uses the knowledge of literature experts such as C.S. Lewis and Auerbach to demonstrate why the Bible cannot be viewed as other types of common literature of their times.

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A Depraved New World

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  • Gene Edward Veith

In this analysis, the author traces the degradation of longstanding morals around sex and marriage, noting the involvement of such factors as utilitarian philosophy and the technological advances in contraception.

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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  • Gene Edward Veith

This article looks at the church history of the 4th Century. The Edict of Milan (313 A.D.) and Constantine the Great are looked at in more detail.

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God is working out his eternal purpose, not only in spite of human and satanic opposition, but also by means of them Arthur W. Pink
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