I really admire what the Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry is accomplishing. That is more of a division of labor enterprise (non-profit).
ELCA has abandoned its best authors, who remain forgotten in the largest nominal Lutheran synod.
The other nominal Lutheran synods have done the same, picking the bloated false-teaching David Kuske catechism over Gausewitz' concise and Biblical edition.
Some neglected authors are from the General Council, which loose from the General Synod, and various ethnic synods.
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| Bodensieck was a liberal, but his three-volume Lutheran Encyclopedia is far better and more useful than what the publishing houses are producing today. |
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| Notice Walther looking up from his smart-phone. I think someone updated the shrine. |
In contrast, Walther was a crop-duster, who had to be the papal authority on everything Lutheran everything in his own group. He established a terrible precedent, borrowed from his Bishop Stephan, that they had the only Gospel, the only authors.
Walther could not tolerate anyone questioning his Halle Pietism, so he rigged the election of his predecessor and got a newly ordained disciple, Francis Pieper, instead of a seasoned veteran who might question the infallible CFW.
Look at how that is reproduced today. ELDONUTs take on the same, wrong-headed, snooty approach in obedience to their bishop, who like Stephan, raised himself to that office and restricted the Gospel to his group.
The pin-headed narrow-mindedness of the ELS-LCMS-WELS varies a bit in content but not in scope.
Even the LCMS seminaries play the game. Ft. Wayne is perfect, St. Louis is "the other one." Mequon is heaven on earth - Bethany is wobbly. And so on.
