We watched a British TV series about the Tower of London today. Mrs. Ichabod is learning about the English side of my family, on my mother's side.
Denominations "forget" their history, but that is really a trick for repudiating it.
The Missouri Synod omits its actual founders, who are Bishop Stephan and Loehe. Walther organized kidnapping, land theft, and a riot by his mob of selected followers, but he did not organize the migration to America. Loehe invited the Missouri people to join his group.
The official histories either omit all the important details or turn everyone except Walther into a demon from Hell. Reason? Everyone was wrong. For more examples of this, check the ELS and WELS hagiographies.
The Blessed Virgin Mother is not the only immaculate saint in denominational history.
When older, wiser pastors and theologians are forgotten, that is just another trick to foist foul doctrine and evil trickery upon the congregations.
Notice how literal has become a cuss-word in WELS, but no one calls the NNIV the Anything Goes paraphrase of the Bible, the gentlest description one can imagine for Murdoch's product. I found a feminist Bible in a Methodist library, dated back to the 1900s. WELS has caught up.
Years ago, The Lutheran Hymnal was a phrase spit out, especially in the context of--make a lip curl--"page 5 and 15". Example - "They are a page 5 and 15 congregation."
Gausewitz? Never heard of him. Repudiated.
Hoenecke? Heard of him, but ignored. Repudiated.
Corky? He was brain-dead. Only a brain-dead person could attack amalgamation and Church Growth in the same paper.
Slick Brenner? Legalist!
Martin Luther? Dust him off once a year, and then put him back in the crypt.
