Wilken taught at Notre Dame as a liberal LCMS, but his congregation under Fritz Pfotenhauer (grandson of the famous one) joined ELCA. So Wilken became ELCA for a time. Wilken followed the lead of his long-time friend (LCMS, then AELC, then LCA, then ELCA) Richard Neuhaus and joined the Church of Rome.
Trivia from Herman Otten - Otten and Marquart ran the student newspaper at Concordia, St. Louis. Wilken and Neuhaus arranged a defenestration and took over.
ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Robert Wilken: LCMS...ELCA...Church of Rome
