http://jackkilcrease.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-importance-of-knowing-theological.html
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2013
The Importance of Knowing Theological and Philosophical Terminology
I was looking around at the new Ecclesia Augustana blog (it seems to be a group of college student fixated on the anti-objective justification heresy) and I cam (sic) across this post:
http://ecclesiaaugustana.blogspot.com/2013/01/faith-is-cause.html
The gist of what is said here is as follows: Polycarp Leyser states that faith is the "instrumental cause" of justification. The theologians of the old Synodical Conference said that it was God's Word and the merit of Christ that was the cause of justification, and not faith in and of itself. Hence, they are out of step with orthodox Lutheran theology and wrong. (GJ - various fallacies - such as circular reasoning - assuming SynCon dogma is orthodox Lutheran doctrine, and Kilcrease posing as an authority on these topics - the appeal to authority)
This post is very odd because Daniel Baker (the person who wrote it) is apparently unfamiliar with Aristotle's metaphysics (GJ - fallacy - change of subject - Baker is talking about the Concordists, not Aristotle) and his scheme of four causes (formal, material, efficient, and final).
http://ecclesiaaugustana.blogspot.com/2013/01/faith-is-cause.html
The gist of what is said here is as follows: Polycarp Leyser states that faith is the "instrumental cause" of justification. The theologians of the old Synodical Conference said that it was God's Word and the merit of Christ that was the cause of justification, and not faith in and of itself. Hence, they are out of step with orthodox Lutheran theology and wrong. (GJ - various fallacies - such as circular reasoning - assuming SynCon dogma is orthodox Lutheran doctrine, and Kilcrease posing as an authority on these topics - the appeal to authority)
This post is very odd because Daniel Baker (the person who wrote it) is apparently unfamiliar with Aristotle's metaphysics (GJ - fallacy - change of subject - Baker is talking about the Concordists, not Aristotle) and his scheme of four causes (formal, material, efficient, and final).
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GJ - Dr. Lito Cruz and I feel like possums in a persimmon patch when Kilcrease begins his solemn declarations.
Kilcrease also poses as someone with knowledge about me, yet he is always betraying how little he knows. That little Catholic convent school, where he teaches part-time, must find their pet Lutheran amusing as he goes on and on.
Jack has a train-load of baggage to hide. How did he manage to grow up in a WELS parsonage and graduate from an ELCA seminary, Luther Seminary in the Twin Cities? Jack and Bob Preus left Luther years before, but Kilcrease stayed, going to a small and undistinguished Jesuit school, Marquette, for an undistinguished PhD. The last I bothered to look, he was turned down for LCMS colloquy.
His position as a Missouri Lutheran teaching at a papist college makes him ideally suited for a career at the Purple Palace.
