The guy in the middle is not.
Braaten was one of the neo-theos of the LCA. He was one of the frauds behind the Christian Dogmatics book used at all the seminaries. The two-volume work rejected all the articles of the Christian faith, and it was seen as a confessional bulwark against the inroads of the radicals. I am not kidding.
Now he is angry and perplexed that ELCA has taken his work to the next logical level, downward.
He wrote about it here. Read it if you are bored, lonely, and reruns of Wheel of Fortune are canceled.
WELS-ELS-LCMS neos - that is your future. As you rot away in retirement, you will see all your work go down the drain as you watch even worse radicals throw it all away. God does indeed grant Hell on earth, and you will experience it. So mote it be.
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ELS President John Moldstad said somewhere, perhaps in his book on Predestination, that the ELCA was lost to liberalism because of its stand on election. (The Madison Agreement that led to the 1917 union of most Norwegian churches in the Midwest said that both Intuitu Fide and the Election to Faith view were okay.) However, Braaten, the main ELCA theologian, was a Norwegian and he taught against the Intuitu Fide view. This fact would seem to invalidate Moldstad's contention.
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