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| Wartburg Seminary - alma mater - look up the Latin. |
I should look up the link to the book - The Air I Breathe is Wartburg Air. We can forgive the rah-rah approach for an alumni book. But if someone is truly interested, enough of the book is on Google to read and gag, without the normal medical aids (ipecac).
Here is a partially readable text.
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| Do you want to impress me? Cite Tillich the adulterer who made Barth look faithful in comparison. Weiblen appropriated Tillich, no one dare appropriate Reu (those bad conservatives). |
The book is largely a transcription of their talks, so I was curious about their impression of the giant of that school (Reu), a seminary founded by Loehe, becoming Iowa Synod, then ALC, then The ALC, then ELCA and now dying.
Tis funny how ELCA marketed itself as new in 1987, but the heads of this school are still ALC. Not a merger no - but a New Lutheran Church with the radicals forced in with quotas.
Reu was a bit of a Social Gospeler (social activism) and also a bit loose on Biblical inerrancy. However, he became more conservative about both issues, for which the liberals never forgave him. As a keen student of Lutheran materials, Reu wrote Luther and the Scriptures, which is still floating around, stating the obvious - that Luther taught inerrancy.
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| Does this sound like WELS, ELS, LCMS, CLC (sic)? Yes, these sects honor this statement by daily breaching the spirit of Reu's essay. The previous Wartburg seminary president, before Louise Johnson, MDiv, helped instigate joint communion with the Reformed...and other communions, too. |
From time to time I quote Reu on unionism, because his essay on that topic was so good.
Bodensieck taught at Wartburg too, and Bodensieck helped midwife The ALC 1960 double-talk on inerrancy, with inerrancy in the Constitution, which they undermined in the amendments or appendix. That was a crucial pivotal point as the ELCA was formed, with The ALC taking credit for being conservative while doing the opposite, such as starting Lutherans Concerned which - if I have the parentage correct - ended up as Reconciling Works. I will omit the obvious droll remarks, but the same radicalism can take on various names with the same few people involved.
