Narrative and story have been all the rage in theology for the last few decades. The attractions are obvious. Narrative theologians favor the active, unpredictable, vibrant God of Scripture to the impersonal first principle of philosophical theology. Narrative theologians reject...

Lutherans are mean. That’s one of the takeaways from James C. Burkee’s Power, Politics, and the Missouri Synod (Fortress, 2011). Burkee documents the backroom betrayals, quotes the sharply worded personal correspondence, recounts the red-faced shouting and the table-pounding, records the...