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Since 1904 the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod has published a theological journal, originally called Theologische Quartalschrift, now the Wisconsin Lutheran Quarterly. This journal is issued by Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary as a testimony of its theological convictions, as a public witness to the saving truths of Holy Scripture, and in the interest of the theological and professional growth...

work really is can only be ascertained when we begin to speak of missio Dei as the work of the Triune God on the basis of Scripture. “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work” (John 5:17). With these words Jesus speaks of the work of the Triune God as having been done “hitherto,” “till now.” It is God’s work unrestricted since creation, including all the Sabbaths even to the Sabbath when Jesus healed the man who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. Therefore Jesus added: “And I work.” He
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