Simply Look at the Facts about UOJ and Justification by Faith. One Rejects the Other - No Harmony Exists

 WAM II taught Justification by Faith, so the Otten-Preus Syndicate defamed him as a false teacher. WAM II was demoted as a professor. Robert Preus was promoted as equal to Walther in his doctrinal acumen, an oddly fitting honor. However, Robert repented of OJ before he died.

I have pointed out in various circumstances that using "'my dogmatics textbook" versus "your dogmatic textbook" is not persuasive or effective. That is what the Calvinists in all denominations (Lutherans included) want. Their weak point is a unified Scripture knowledge. Their strongpoint is dogmatics. They have book chapter and verse for all their falsehoods, as CLC Pastor Mayhew displayed so convincingly in his YouTube.

Setting aside the actual arguments for a moment...Let's look at the state of the issue. There are two sides - clearly - because the UOJ Stormtroopers never stop attacking Justification by Faith. I simply want to emphasize honesty, which is entirely lacking.

 The original...

 Otten's copycat cover. He even copies and pastes book design, when it earns money for feigning sincerity in doctrine.

Political Front
First of all, the Preus Family and Otten, Inc attacked Dr. Walter A. Maier II in a vicious, dishonest, and cowardly fashion - at a national level. They held up their precious UOJ and used the strange tactic of feigning horror  that WAM II denied UOJ.

Robert's little essay (portrayed as canonical by Cascione and Paul McCain) is laughably bad, so alienated from the Scriptures that it does not hold up under the first reading.

 The poorly educated political parson and plagiarist, Paul McCain, has so little reading comprehension that he should be banned from editing more difficult than Dick, Jane, and Sally Go to VBS.

And yet, despite this national and ongoing beating, Otten and the Preus Family pretend they are huge fans of Dr. Walter A. Maier. Huge!

I have a signed copy of Otten's book on Dr. Maier I, the back cover containing the quote in the graphic. I scanned it lest someone say I was lying. Justification by Faith and Biblical inerrancy are the capstone and cornerstone of the Christian Faith.

 This edition from Herman Otten, signed by Otten hisself,
boasts this quotation, scanned from the back cover.
The World Still Listens - but Otten is deaf to the Gospel.

Chameleons can turn every color - but white.
The Rolf Synod ran back to the Little Sect and the LCMS.

Missouri made millions of dollars from Dr. Maier's ministry, even while publicly gutting his son. Marvin Schwan, the patron saint of adulterous millionaires, gave $20 million just for the Lutheran Hour building and grounds.

Doctrinal Front
Justification by Faith and Justification without Faith cannot be the same doctrine or harmonious doctrines.

However, the UOJ Hive continues to promote their sad, sick dogmas while the Biblical version has a chance to shine, here and there.

1. The LCMS finally published the Apology of the Book of Concord, by Martin Chemnitz - Justification by Faith. 
2. They also published the bloated, neo-Barthian Confessing Christ dogmatics book, which features UOJ (ditto the new, Titanic-sized Small Catechism).

Is anything more despicable than using Luther's name and publications to promote an anti-Biblical agenda?

WELS professors like Bivens (copying Zarling) pretend that their UOJ is the same as the Book of Concord's Chief Article.

If fact, readers will find that the false teachers alive and well today are adept at introducing Justification as the theme of the Reformation and using that word to mean UOJ,

1. which erupted first in the Calvinist Huber, 
2. then at Halle University, and 
3. found its OJ and SJ in the Calvinist explanation of a Halle theologian's dogmatics book. See Knapp and Woods below.

 Do the OJists admit that their terms come from a Calvinist translator? This was and is a major book for Pietists. WELS admits the terms were adopted in Germany and Walther adopted them. Besides that, various cults use the term Objective Justification too.

Do Otten's Baptist buddies notice that the editor is on the wrong side of the issue? Probably not, because the traditional Baptists are being taken over and replaced by Calvinist Baptists. The Calvinists were given a "seat at the table" long ago and now they want the entire table, food and dessert and wine and cigars for themselves.

Seminaries Merging Right and Left - Mostly Left

Leonard Woods Jr is the Calvinist who translated the Halle University lectures of
George Christian Knapp,
coining the English terms of Objective and Subjective Justification,
which are now treated as directly revealed by the Holy Spirit
to CFW Walther and JP Meyer.

Andover-Newton Theological School, founded in 1807, is closing its Boston campus and moving, due to rapidly shrinking enrollment. The new president's adultery, revealed just before his installation in 2014, did not help matters.

Andover-Newton is considered the canary in the coalmine of mainline seminaries. Like Colgate-Rochester-Crozier--where Walter Rauschenbusch and Martin Luther King studied at its component parts--the endowment funds have helped delay the final stages of decomposition.

Those who love Universal Objective Justification will grieve that the historic birthplace of Double Justification, Objective and Subjective, will be turned into something more memorable, like a gourmet food mall or a quaint collection of libraries where the homeless can sleep and bathe.

Biographical details of Woods:

His son, Leonard, scholar, born in Newbury, Massachusetts, 24 November, 1807; died in Boston, Massachusetts, 24 December, 1878, was graduated at Union college in 1827 and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1830. In 1831-'3 he was resident graduate scholar at Andover, and in 1833 he was licensed to preach. His private pupil, Richard Henry Dana, says of him: " At the age of twenty-four years he had been the first scholar in the Phillips academy, the first in every branch at Union, had been graduated at the Theological seminary the acknowledged foremost man of his period, and had published a translation of Knapp's Christian Theology, enriched with a long and fully thought-out preface, with original notes showing profound scholarship. He was assisting Professor Stuart in his commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, ' and aiding Professor Robinson in editing the ' Biblical Repository, ' then the most scholastic periodical in America, and was assistant instructor of Hebrew in the seminary." He edited the " Literary and Theological Review" in New York city in 18"34-'7, and although that periodical was the organ of the Presbyterian and Congregational churches, he directly opposed the opinions of many of its supporters, objecting to the proposals of temperance and anti-slavery societies and popular revivalists, and to the German Reformation, and defending the few and simple conditions of admission into the Anglican communion, as compared with the minute requirements of doctrine in his own church. He was professor of sacred literature in Bangor theological seminary in 1836-'9, and from 1839 till 1866 president of Bowdoin. 

Although Andover was a Calvinist seminary founded as conservatives fled the horrors of Unitarian Harvard, Andover has ended in the same far Left spectrum of mainline dysmorphia.

Covenant Relations

Andover Newton has historical covenants with the American Baptist Churches (USA) and the United Church of Christ. 

The School has a long-standing and progressive partnership with the Unitarian Universalist Association and offers UU students the courses and support they need to pursue ministerial fellowship with the UUA.  

I am dabbing tears from my eyes at this moment - tears of laughter. The old adage is true - "Young Calvinist, old Unitarian."

Just as UOJ Halle lecturer Knapp denied the Biblical foundation of the Holy Trinity, so does the Calvinist seminary home of Knapp's translator deny the Holy Trinity altogether.

• The American Baptists are the ELCA wing of Anabaptists. 
• The United Church of Christ is pan-religious. 
• The Unitarian Universalist organization is openly atheistic.

ELCA Seminaries Crumpling Under the Weight of Declining Enrollment and Soaring Costs

1. Southern Seminary (ELCA) is rejoicing about its new location at an ELCA college. 
2. The Berkeley ELCA seminary is joining the chorus.
3. Gettysburg and Philadelphia, 100 miles apart (for Mequon grads) will merge.
4. The Chicago campus is dwindling, overbuilt from the start.
5. Columbus - Trinity - is also feeling the pain.
6. Luther Seminary is selling two parcels of land as part of its "long-term development plans." Uh-huh.

The security camera at ELS headquarters captured this photo.