Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "David Boisclair, STM, Assigns Dr. Luther, Melancht...":
Ichabod -
Where in the world do these so-called "Lutherans" come up with criticizing Scripture's teaching of "justification by faith alone" as explained by Luther and the Lutheran Confessions? They want the name "Lutheran" but somehow can't subscribe to the teachings.
Nathan M. Bickel
www.thechristianmessage.org
www.moralmatters.org
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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "David Boisclair, STM, Assigns Dr. Luther, Melancht...":
Rev. Bickel, they learned it in the grade schools, high schools, colleges and Seminary.
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GJ - A similar question could have been asked about the Medieval theologians who hardly talked about the Gospel at all. They had the learning, the documents, the time to study. They built an edifice of philosophy around the Scriptures and began in earnest to study their own studies.
The Lutherans did the same as the Age of Orthodoxy waned. Instead of continuing Biblical studies in the style of Chemnitz and Gerhard, they engaged in philosophical polemics.
I enjoyed reading Pieper late in life, but he followed Walther in doing a lot of preening about Latin terms. Synodical training for Missouri focused on proving that Holy Mother Synod was the best, if not the only Church in the world. That simply continued Stephan's syphilitic fantasy that he alone maintained the only True Church on Earth.
The basic style of UOJ argumentation is - "This is what someone in the synod wrote, so it must be true." Really now - the argument from authority is a tired, old logical fallacy.
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| Jay Webber argues that, sure, Rambach was a Pietist, but that does not make him wrong. Also - Chemnitz was orthodox, but that does not make him right. Oh yes, the ELS is the Guardian of Lutheran Orthodoxy, Gangnam Style. |
Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "How Can They Deny Justification by Faith?":
Brett -
Yes. Thank you! Your reply jogged my memory recall. You are absolutely spot on.
Last June 1, 2012, I illustrated what you say about "universal objective justification" being taught in synodical schools, with the following:
"UOJ in the Schools:"
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2012/06/uoj-in-schools.html
Nathan M. Bickel
www.thechristianmessage.org
www.moralmatters.org
