Jesus Christ: Conservative and Liberal

Authors

Erwin L. Lueker, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

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