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Philip D. Bartelt holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theological Studies from Concordia University, Irvine, and a Master of Divinity from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne. He lives with his beautiful wife, Jaclyn, and daughter, Anastasia, in New Fairfield, Connecticut. There he also serves as the pastor of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd. He enjoys catechetical theology and biblical exegesis.
Caleb is joined by two members of 1517's junior fellowship, John Hoyum and
Philip Bartelt and John Hoyum join Caleb to read and discuss the Third Article
John Hoyum and Philip Bartelt join Caleb to discuss the preface to Martin
Luther neither removed the Apocrypha from the Bible nor discouraged its use. Rather, he received and preserved the ancient distinction inherited from the fathers: the Apocrypha is valuable, edifying, and worthy of reading, but it is not Holy Scripture and therefore cannot serve as the foundation of Christian doctrine.
Christians can pursue projects of justice free of the burden of being the justifier of the world; that office belongs to Christ and Christ alone.
Wade Johnston, Life Under the Cross: A Biography of the Reformer Matthias Flacius Illyricus, Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis: MO, 2025.
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