tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24933982.post6646397600122992222..comments2023-04-04T11:00:28.668-05:00Comments on Gottesblog: The Grammarian, XIIFr BFEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14554699361739289492noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24933982.post-82671081578854101392007-11-24T23:07:00.000-06:002007-11-24T23:07:00.000-06:00By the way, the priesthood of all believers is not...<I>By the way, the priesthood of all believers is not in the Bible.</I><BR/><BR/>If Rev. Eckardt were to have put "priesthood of all believers" in quotes, then he could say that such a phrase, or its Greek equivalent, is not in the Bible, just as he could say that the phrase "Triune God" is not in the Bible. But the understanding of the royal "priesthood of all believers" is in the Bible, Carl Vehsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00348831096001668813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24933982.post-26098138595195620602007-11-19T11:46:00.000-06:002007-11-19T11:46:00.000-06:00Fr. Eckardt,I look forward to your article. The M...Fr. Eckardt,<BR/><BR/>I look forward to your article. The Missouri Synod has its problems, but on this issue, no one beats my old home in the Wisconsin Synod. When the individuals in the collective royal priesthood are not taught the value of their God-given vocations, there is a tendency to "churchify" everything one is doing. "Full-time public ministers" are seen, not in any Office, but as Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24933982.post-14703124011281176442007-11-18T23:39:00.000-06:002007-11-18T23:39:00.000-06:00Pr. Eckardt:Tim Wengert of the ELCA seminary in Ph...Pr. Eckardt:<BR/><BR/>Tim Wengert of the ELCA seminary in Philadelphia had a good article on the myth of the "Priesthood of All Believers." You can find it at this URL: http://www.valpo.edu/ils/documents/05_wengert.pdf<BR/>I'm sure you likely ran across it while preparing your upcoming article for <I>Gottesdienst</I>.<BR/><BR/>Interestingly enough, the 19th Century Lutheran theologian Henry Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04565327604253256429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24933982.post-4415612691587192102007-11-18T23:36:00.000-06:002007-11-18T23:36:00.000-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04565327604253256429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24933982.post-40022729710948880612007-11-17T11:45:00.000-06:002007-11-17T11:45:00.000-06:00Interestingly, as "anonymous" has pointed out, thi...Interestingly, as "anonymous" has pointed out, this idea of all the people of God being collectively a priesthood is first found in Moses.<BR/><BR/>What this means is that while it may be said that all the people of God have priestly duties to perform, there is no warrant here for scuttling the appellation "priest" for a clergyman, any more than there would have been for doing so when the LevitesFr BFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14554699361739289492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24933982.post-5436617110244649422007-11-17T11:22:00.000-06:002007-11-17T11:22:00.000-06:00You are right about the passage speaking of a prie...You are right about the passage speaking of a priesthood rather than individual priests. But I don't see it as such a leap that a priesthood would be made of priests. The problem may be in a leap taken as to what priests do.<BR/><BR/>I do see a problem with the voters' assembly conclusions people draw. It usually seemed to me that much of what was done in a voters assembly, even when it was solarbloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17506179756577015681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24933982.post-88138241918436337042007-11-16T11:00:00.000-06:002007-11-16T11:00:00.000-06:00Thank you, Father. Too many laypeople and clergy ...Thank you, Father. Too many laypeople and clergy are also unaware that this is not unique to the NT church but is found in Exodus 19 at a time when there were certainly no voters' assemblies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com