Time To Post the Efficacy Motherlode Again - Proof Against Intuitu Cavo

 Graphic by Norma A. Boeckler

I posted the Efficacy Motherlode again, because the Lutherans are hopelessly stuck in view of Calvinism (intuitu Calvo), thanks to his influence on both sides -

1. The liberals (ELCA and offshoots) get their Calvinism from the academic theologians they hire and from the Fuller Seminary experts they promote.
2. The "conservatives" (LCMS, ELS, WELS, CLC sic) get their Calvinism from the academic theologians they hire and from the Fuller Seminary experts they promote.

As readers can seethe, the cause is almost hopeless. But it is only hopeless if we rely on institutions rather than the Word of God.

The synods and seminaries have been able to sell their garbage at fantastically high prices because they have abandoned various positions that are Biblical, taught clearly during the Reformation, and inimical to their rationalistic and Pietistic programs:

1. The efficacy of the Word
2. The Means of Grace
3. Justification by Faith.

I test each issue of Christian News (web pdf) with a control-f search on these topics - Justification by Faith, efficacy, Means of Grace. They do not come up often. The Chief Article is not Justification by Faith but magically transformed into Objective Justification. That is what they mean (OJ) when they invoke the term Justification. That is so clever. 

Karl Barth and his Commie mistress Charlotte Kirchbaum updated Calvin by playing with Biblical terms just as their exemplar did. This gave the post-Kantian theologians permission to do the same, so modern theology means playing with Biblical categories in order to weave together a new vision of Faith without Belief. 

Barth-Kirschbaum were simply working with the midwife of this approach, Friedrich Schleiermacher - Halle University, of course.

 We haf got you surrounded, Barth on the right, Barth on the left.

Because Barth-Kirschbaum influenced the early leaders of Fuller Seminary, they became the official theologians of Fuller. Because Barth was lionized among the mainline churches of Europe and America, with a big fat set of Dogmatics to cite, he became the paper pope of academics, Protestant and Roman Catholic.

I can name at least four Notre Dame professors who loved Barth - Fiorenza, Yoder, Hauerwas, and Hommes. Affiliations? - Roman Catholic, Mennonite, Methodist, liberal Calvinist.

CFW Walther dripped Calvinism and did his best to supplant the Lutheran doctrine of his colleagues with his brew of Calvinistic-Pietistic dogma, heavily reliant on Bishop Stephan, STD.