Friday, May 27, 2011

Hail, Hail, Febronia



One Eponymous Archon (https://me.yahoo.com/oneeponymousarchon) has left a new comment on your post "Luther Rocks Report on Another Effort Toward Women...":

Dear Dr. Jackson,

Since you have shown that the Presidents of the various Districts in the Wisconsin Synod very often act without regard to proper doctrine and practice, and that the President of the Synod is unable or unwilling to curtail them, I have a suggestion for a new and simple name for the WELS - "Febronia."

Justinius Febronia proposed in the 1760s that the various parts of the Catholic Church in Germany were not subject to the decrees of the Pope in Rome, and many Bishops accepted his ideas. This became quite a movement in the Catholic Church all over Europe.

President Schroeder seems much like Clements XIII and XIV who blustered, unsuccessfully, against these ideas. He was pretty much ignored.

The anthem for this new synodical name can be, "Hail, Hail, Febronia, church of the brave and free." (with apologies to "Duck Soup!")

I am but -

One Eponymous Archon