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| David Scaer was obsessed in his opposition to WAM II's Justification by Faith, which he found also in WAM III. Did not Dr. Walter A. Maier teach the Chief Article? - Yes, and Scaer resented that. |
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| Otten gave the show away on the back cover of his Walter A. Maier book, or perhaps he was selling to both sides of the issue, as he claimed. |
"The controversy over subjective justification* and over the theology of Walter A. Maier II goes back in the Missouri Synod to 1965, when Jack Preus had the board of Concordia Theological Seminary call him to the Springfield faculty. In the four years which followed, during which Jack continued as president, it is unlikely that he did not know Maier II’s positions. The students did!"
Scaer, David P.. Surviving the Storms: Memoirs of David P. Scaer. Luther Academy. Kindle Edition. #5623.
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GJ - *Subjective Justification in the Scaer lexicon may mean Justification by Faith, but he pollutes the term by shoe-horning it into Calvinistic dogmatic terms.
Objective Justification is not the Atonement, as Dr. Robert Preus said in his famous essay that Cascione ordered him to write.
Objective Justification always means - "justification" gives it away - that God has declared the entire world forgiven and saved.
Therefore, their Subjective Justification means accepting God's universal absolution. The justification term always includes the declaration of forgiveness, which is clearly by faith alone, apart from the works of the Law.
From Scaer
Objective vs. Subjective Justification
"While biblical inspiration and authority was foundational for Pieper’s Christian Dogmatics, Franz Pieper was absorbed with the doctrine of objective justification throughout his three volumes. Also known as universal justification, it distinguished the Missouri Synod from other synods as no other doctrine in the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century did. At the heart of the doctrine was that God justified the entire world in the resurrection of Christ."
Scaer, David P.. Surviving the Storms: Memoirs of David P. Scaer. Luther Academy. Kindle Edition. #5539.
