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CLTS Professor’s book now available in Spanish L AT I N A M E R I C A - A b o o k on eschatology by Rev. Dr. John Stephenson, professor at Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (CLTS) in St. Catharines, Ontario, has recently been made available in Spanish as part of the VDMA Project. “I would hope that the Eschatology volume of my youth will be of use to both ripened and ripening theologians in the Spanish-speaking world,” Dr. Stephenson said. “Academic treatment of eschatology is well and good—indeed, necessary in its own way—but the existential-pastoral bottom line is that in death and at the final judgment we come face to face with Him who took on our flesh
to bear our scars and be not only our Saviour but also our Judge.” Dr. Stephenson’s Eschatology was first published in 1993 as part of the Confessional Lutheran Dogmatics series. Dr. Stephenson served as general editor of the series for more than a decade, having previously served as assistant editor to Rev. Dr. Robert Preus. The VDMA Project is a translation initiative of The Lutheran Church— Missouri Synod, dedicated to bringing solid confessional theological materials into Spanish for the benefit of Latin American Lutherans. The program identifies important English theological texts, translates them into Spanish, and
makes them available electronically. “VDMA” is an abbreviation of the Reformation slogan Verbum Domini Manet in Aeternum (Latin for “The Word of the Lord Endures Forever”). Financial support of the project is made possible through the support of the Lutheran Heritage Foundation. The VDMA project has already published Spanish translations of several books in the Confessional Lutheran Dogmatics series. A translation of Dr. Stephenson’s other volume in the series, The Lord’s Supper, is also underway. T he Span is h t r an s l at io n o f Eschatology is available for purchase from Amazon in both digital and paperback formats.
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