Here is some typical nastiness from Tim Glende, whose worship with gay activist Andy Stanley (a crypto-Babtist) is documented by his side-kick Ski:
On his blog www.thegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com, Rev. Gregory Jackson wants everyone to download a copy of Heinrich Schmid’s Doctrinal Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Dr. Jackson promotes this volume as a faithful presentation of Biblical and Lutheran doctrine. But Schmid’s Doctrinal Theology is filled with errors, especially the errors of synergism and intuitu fidei, which were dealt with by confessional Lutherans in the 19th Century.
It has been said that those who don’t learn from the mistakes of history are bound to repeat them. Greg Jackson is too smart not to remember the obvious doctrinal errors of the past. But we still wonder about his intelligence when we view the pictures he posts on his site and the obvious lies and half-truths he continues to repeat.
I am glad he produced that post, because everyone should study the gap that exists between Lutheran doctrine and bigoted, ignorant, self-preening WELS dogma.
Note what his own cited version of Schmid says:
The title page also indicates the nature of the original work. It is not a dogmatic text so much as it is a compilation of theological statements drawn from the writings of fourteen prominent Lutheran theologians who lived during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These quotations are employed to support and clarify the Christian faith after the pattern of presentation developed in the early Lutheran tradition.
In their own preface the translators point out that, “The aim of the compiler was of a purely historical character . . . not to afford a summary of absolutely final definitions of Lutheran Theology, but to exhibit the teaching that had been current up to the time of Rationalism.” Notwithstanding the present emphasis on “back to Luther,” the great systematizers who followed him will remain important. A frank recognition of their limitations does not weaken respect for their contribution. It is this respect, and the fact that so small a part of the voluminous writings of these theologians is available in English, which underlies the decision to reissue this volume.
I am trying to discover what crime has been committed in collecting Lutheran resources for people to use, posted on this blog or linked on one convenient page. That is quite a contrast with someone who preaches Groeschel, copies Stanley, and lies about it.
First of all, Tim's comments raise the issue of whether he has ever opened that book or studied it. The first page states that Schmid collected the quotations to be a library of statements from Lutheran theologians before the Age of Rationalism. There was no guarantee that all the statements harmonize. It is a collection, not a Book of Concord. The fact remains, there is nothing like it in publishing. Ever since Robert Preus died we have no one who is familiar with all the Lutheran orthodox writers and active in writing original works. Repristination Press has done a good job of providing everyone with books never before translated into English.
But so-called conservative Lutherans do not have another Robert Preus today because they have put their millions into creating C. Peter Wagner clones, Craig Groeschel copies, and Andy Stanley minions. The yield is impressive - like a field of ragweed blowing in the wind, scattering noxious seed in every direction. Weeds grow best in fertile soil, so these synod-supported false teachers have produced with promiscuous abundance.
Tim graduated from a unaccredited seminary famous for its empty library. Students party through their years there and tell the gullible how hard their "graduate school" is. Tim's citations are absurdly dishonest. Who said each statement? Why is that cut off? Perhaps Tim barely knows any of the authors cited. The section of the book is called "The Benevolence of God Toward Fallen Man." That sound really evil, doesn't it? Tim's quotations, probably provided by Uncle John Brug or someone else who has opened a book, are from Schmid's introductory remarks.
A genuine student of theology--not the pious fraud of Freedom, Wisconsin--would list his objections to the quotations in a serious review of the book. That would require some mental labor. His post is an example of poisoning the well, the knee-jerk reaction of the Wisconsin Sect when their false doctrine is exposed.
The idea is to make readers gasp, "Oh, Schmid. Ichabod has linked Schmid on his blog. He must be evil. Tim makes that very clear and he has an uncle who teaches at The Sausage Factory. Tim must know because He. Studied. Greek."
Five seconds later, no one remembers anything about Schmid but they are sure this blog must be evil because the evil Schmid has been linked in an evil way, to promote some kind of false doctrine.
They do not know that Northwestern Publishing House has published Schmid's History of Pietism! I doubt whether Tim knows it, owns it, or cares to crack the binding.
Here is the link, out in the open, for Mequon graduates. They are rather slow at finding links embedded in the text. It's that little hand that apppears. Never mind. Here it is.
Will the odious translator be excommunicated? I actually know the NPH title list, which includes my own work. That translator - gasp - also provided us with Timotheus Verinus, the great orthodox Lutheran work written against the Pietists. I see a pattern here. Where is my Find him! Excommunicate him! rubber stamp? Ah yes, right at my fingertips.
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| Joe Krohn suggested this and sent the boot graphic to me. |
The book is arranged by doctrinal topic (locus). Schmid was a favorite among WELS and ALC pastors. I got my first copy from the Mequon book sale.
