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 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 National Council of Churches.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Robert Wilken: LCMS...ELCA...Church of Rome
