Several people have been discussing UOJ with me, so I looked up this post from Jack Cascione (Cascione Synod, former ELS reject, former English District reject, former LCMS):
Robert Preus on Justification Without Faith
Here is the verbatim quotation from The Cardinal, as he styles himself on LutherQuest(sic):
Dr. Greg Jackson has repeatedly stated on Luther Quest (sic) that Dr. Robert Preus was not in agreement with Objective Justification. I served as the PR Director for Fort Wayne from 1978-1981. “Missouri In Perspective” the ELIM paper, criticized the LC-MS position on Objective Justification. As editor for the Concordia Theological Seminary - Fort Wayne “News Letters” I asked Dr. Preus to respond in the Spring 1981 Issue. The following is his reply, plus other relative excerpts.
Cascione could not deal with my basic, simple, plain argument - Robert Preus repudiated UOJ in his final book, Justification and Rome. [Note to readers - Pope John the Malefactor ordered the book because he thought the title was Just a Vacation in Rome.]
Preus would have done the world and his semi-literate sons a favor by clearly stating this repudiation. Or maybe he did and they took it out. At any rate, Preus adopted the Norwegian/Waltherian position most of his life but dared to keep studying. His final book is a gem, apparently designed to keep The Fort from running off to Rome. Preus started a Church Growth program at The Fort when he was a UOJ proponent. He turned against UOJ and CG. Is there a connection?
Now the good members of the Missouri Synod are heavily subsidizing a seminary where the graduates become Eastern Orthodox priests, crypto-EO priests, Roman Catholic priests, crypto-Roman priests, or sympathizers and apologists for both.
As Chemnitz wrote, "These are the last times of an insane, old world."
