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| Published in 1957 - the UOJ erosion was already being established. This volume is no longer sold by NPH. |
LPC has left a new comment on your post "Pastor Paul Rydecki - Excellent Hoenecke Sermon on...":
Dr. Greg,
Agree wholeheartedly.
The sermon indeed is ambiguous enough to be massaged by UOJers to their advantage.
LPC
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GJ - Since WELS was already changing the Gausewitz Catechism and slithering into UOJ, I have to question the integrity of the publication. Who knows how much it was edited to please the growing UOJ faction?
As one reader said, part three is missing or truncated.
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LPC has left a new comment on your post "Hoenecke in the Hands of WELS":
I think it is not that realistic to assume that Hoenecke will not cower to UOJ when pressed.
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GJ - Editing is an interesting consideration. I wrote a dissertation, which was edited down by one person. That was edited again. At one point we had a footnote with no content. I could not even tell where it went, and the main editor (Harvard PhD) could not either.
Rolf and Daniel Preus edited their father's last book. The sons are fanatics for UOJ, but they left many gems against UOJ in the book. Each anti-UOJ quotation demolishes the case for Knapp-Stephan-Walther. Besides that, there is no UOJ statement in Justification and Rome.
The Storm-Brownies assume that justification almost always means justification without faith, because they imagine their precious UOJ dogma is the real Gospel. The rest is - you gotta believe UOJ. They call that Subjective Justification!
But justification in Preus' last book exclusively means justification by faith alone. And by exclusively, I mean UOJ does not survive the scrutiny of Robert Preus, in spite of the editing done by his sons.
Back to Hoenecke. All we know for sure about this book is this - that WELS published it while the sect was abandoning traditional Lutheran doctrine for the magic of UOJ. The march toward Universalism and consorting with ELCA has been slow but inexorable. They had no trouble "improving Gausewitz" and later abandoning their modified version for Kuske's UOJ picture book.
