Concordia Theological Monthly
Article Title
Publication Date
7-1-1964
Document Type
Article
Keywords
freedom, liberal, conservative, truth, radical, forgiveness, baptism
Submission Type
Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep
Abstract
Politicians, intellectuals, artists, businessmen, and also theologians are often classified as conservative or liberal. Some are even classified as radical, a term which in its basic meaning is better used to describe the thoroughgoing consistency of both the conservative and the liberal. In naive thought the conservative is the person who sees great value in a situation as it is and seeks to preserve it. The liberal, on the other hand, is a person who sees greater value in new methods, in new thoughts and in new structures. He seeks continually to be in the vanguard of those who break with the old and usher in the new. So the line has moved back and forth down through the ages.
Disciplines
Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Submission Cost
Free
Submission Audience
Laity; Ministers; Scholars
Recommended Citation
Lueker, Erwin L.
(1964)
"Jesus Christ: Conservative and Liberal,"
Concordia Theological Monthly: Vol. 35, Article 40.
Available at:
https://scholar.csl.edu/ctm/vol35/iss1/40
