A work in progess and subject to change as the Holy Spirit leads.

• Very much aligned with the teachings of the ELCA

http://www.elca.org/questions/Results.asp?recid=16

• The Bible as encounter with the living Word

• The Bible’s authority rests in God

• The Bible’s authority is interpreted through Jesus

• Biblical interpretation as scholarly endeavor is very important to me. There is a danger of not looking at the whole of scripture and its meaning, when not viewed in a scholarly light. Otoh, there is also a danger of too much head knowledge and little heart knowledge, so care is needed.

• Historical is a very important tool. There of course is danger to start decannonization of certain scripture, and that should not occur.
• Form was used extensively in my university coursework, and as such, I am very much a fan of it.
• Redaction while used somewhat, can lead one to errant theology pretty quick, especially is one is trying to prove a specific pov, rather than determining what can scripture say in a given time and place.

I classify myself as an inerrantist, in the areana of faith and practice, as such, I may be somewhat aligned with infallibilism, rather than an explicit inerrantist.

The Augsburg Confession Godhead Article 1

“We‘unanimously hold and teach, in accordance with the Council of Nicea, that there is one divine essence which is called and which is God, eternal, incorporated, indivisible, of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, the maker and preserver of all things, visible and invisible. Yet there are three persons, of the same essence and power, who are also co-eternal: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.”

”…The theology of glory, namely human ability to achieve righteousness. In light of Christ on the cross, any trust in human ability becomes sheer folly. Any attempt to reach God through philosophical speculation also becomes futile. As Luther, reflecting on 1 Corinthians 1, notes, through the foolishness of the cross, “God destroys the wisdom of the wise.” The theology of glory celebrates works and what humanity can do; the theology of the cross celebrates Christ and what he alone can accomplish.The theology of the cross also deals a crushing blow to a life that is consumed by the self. To see this aspect of Luther's thought, we need to return to his understanding of sin. - Stephen J. Nichols

I see this as a Theology of the Cross, as God created everything out nothing. This is perhaps best expanded upon here. http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1986/JASA6-86Murphy.html

• Christ destroyed Satan and his works (the Christus Victor view)

  In the paradoxical middle of Arminianism and Calvinism
  http://www.grace-els.org/confirmation/interpretation/node6.html
  http://www.reformedreader.org/bow.htm

• Santification as a declaration by God

http://www.ctsfw.edu/library/files/pb/792

• The need to persist in faith (the conditional security view)

• Covenanting with the community of God (the infant baptism view)

• “This is my body” (the spiritual presence view)

• The gifts are for today (the continuationist view)

• “Tongues shall cease” (the cessationist view)

• Torn between the two. I'm leaning towards the cessationist view, but I attened an AoG church for a few years, so not totally.

• The irrelevance of gender for spiritual authority (the egalitarian view)

• Gender-based authority was only cultural (the egalitarian view)

• God works through the secular government and the church for different purposes

• The symbolic Thousand-Year Conquest of Satan (The Amillennial View)

Baptism in the Holy Spirit

• People are baptized with the Spirit when they believe (the classical Protestant view)