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| Walther changed the rules for electing a professor, making sure he got his way, as his nephew, Fuerbringer reported. |
Taken from Zur Wehre. (To Fight Back) By An Old Lutheran. in "Columbus Theological Magazine", Vol. 1, Issue 2, 1881. Matthias Loy, Ed.
"Prof. Pieper regards it as a complete refutation of Prof. Loy's statement that the orthodox Luther theologians of our Church for three centuries had with great unanimity declared election to take place in foresight of faith, that these theologians were not in full accord as to whether they should term faith an instrumental cause of election or give it some other name. But is not this a sophism, invented to divert attention from the point of dispute? This matter has nothing to do with the other, in which they were all agreed, that election, namely, was made in view of faith. But Prof. Piper, in his superhuman logic, thinks that these other differences, which are not at issue at all in the present controversy, overthrow Prof. Loy's position and refute his statement. It is often the part of a sophist, whether conscious or not, that he tries to disprove a point which is not at issue, in order to make it appear as though he had disproved the real point in dispute."
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| Loy was president of the Columbus, ALC, seminary. Lenski and Leupold taught there too. |
