Thursday, January 20, 2011

M. Loy on Doctrine

M. Loy translated hymns in The Lutheran Hymnal and wrote at least one there.
His Delaware, Ohio congregation is now ELCA.



Matthias Loy, Lutheran Standard, May 15, 1886, p. 84  (as cited by C. George Fry in The Springfielder, October 1974, Volume 38, Number 4,  Matthias Loy: Theologian of American Lutheran Orthodoxy)

"What was once settled as fundamental orthodoxy has, in various  particulars,  become  strangely disturbed.  The  old  ways of  thinking  no  longer  fit  and  satisfy  and  command  the  stern and  unfaltering  consent,  as  they  once did  . . . Notice  the  contradictions,  the  inconsistencies,  the  vacillations  of  theological opinion,  in  all  statements  of   our time,--how  vague  the language  chosen,  how  uncertain  the  note  struck,  how  many  the loopholes of  evasion!  . . . . Try if you  can get a definite declaration of theological  faith from your intelligent friends of  any denomination. Question  the  professed  teachers  of  religion,  and notice  how  slowly,  how  guardedly,  how  vaguely  they  answer direct inquiries....There has been an almost universal loosing of old moorings, a breaking away from the firm fastenings of other days, a drifting no one can tell whither."