A. Berean has left a new comment on your post "UOJ Stormtroopers Allergic to Faith. Preach Faith ...":
I'm studying Homiletics right now and I have to say, I don't understand why Walther would make a statement like that... He is telling Lutheran pastors not to mention faith, or exhort their hearers to the importance of faith while preaching when the Scriptures (in particular the Apostle Paul) do just that. Maybe it's because I'm a student and I have a fresher perspective, but things like this really bother me as someone who is studying to be a pastor...
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Febreze has left a new comment on your post "UOJ Stormtroopers Allergic to Faith. Preach Faith ...":
Once you get your M.Div go to the ELDoNA. With your kind of comments, you wouldn't last long in the WELS, ELS, or LCMS. If you're at one of those schools, you must be pretty quiet in class ;)
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GJ - Lutherans should give up on Walther as the ultimate answer man. He had some good insights here and there, but he should be treated as equal to tv evangelists, not Jesus. I wonder if Ferdy had a complex that made him see himself as the epitome of all religious prophets. That self-image is quite an accomplish for a man who went no farther than a bachelor's degree at a rationalistic university, serving as the enforcer for a Pietistic, degenerate bully.
People know how bad the Stephan-Walther combination was. Most of the facts were revealed in Zion on the Mississippi. In spite of the hysteria from St. Walther crowd, the Stephan book does not add much more to the saga, but definitely fills in the details. I expected Zion to counter the allegations in the Stephan book, but the earlier history supports the Stephan clan's account in all respects.
Someone else reported the bishop's syphilis to me. The Stephan book gives away the symptoms without naming the odious venereal disease. Zion shows that everyone knew about Stephan's adultery with young girls. The Stephan book fills in the court testimony about his European promiscuity.
