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Is He Talking to Us?
Amidst the screeching across the P&R internets in the wake of the nuclear bomb that was dropped yesterday, Carl Trueman stands out as a thoughtful, and even useful voice. Jason Stellman was a man with a high ecclesiology; and high … Continue reading
Thesis Thursday
We’re up to Lecture 35, and Thesis XXII, where it seems that Walther is rejecting prevenient, resistible grace (but using different words). It is a great and awful sin not to draw any soul that has been entrusted to us … Continue reading
Thesis Thursday
In Lecture 34, Walther continues rejecting Ex Opere Operato: At our last meeting we barely began to discuss the important contents of the twenty-first thesis, viz., that Law and Gospel are not properly divided, the one from the other, when … Continue reading
Thesis Thursday
We have hit an anniversary here at Thesis Thursday. Walther’s 1st lecture was September 12, 1884, and his 32nd lecture was June 19, 1885. Then apparently the seminary took a summer break, because Lecture 33 wasn’t until September 4, 1885, … Continue reading
Thesis Thursday
In Lecture 31, Walther discusses mortal vs. venial sins: Thesis XIX. In the fifteenth place, the Word of God is not rightly divided when the preacher speaks of certain sins as if they were not of a damnable, but of … Continue reading
Gratuitous Justification
Here’s Lane Tipton, from the CTC 2011 Highlights show: Is there any renovative feature at all — actual, consequential, conditional, potential — is there any renovative feature in Calvin’s doctrine of justification? Absolutely not. He is what makes the Roman … Continue reading
Thesis Thursday
Moving on to Lecture 24 and Thesis XIII. In the ninth place, the Word of God is not rightly divided when one makes an appeal to believe or at least help towards that end, instead of preaching faith into a … Continue reading
Thesis Thursday
Hey folks, after a week off for Christmas, we come now to Lecture 23, and maybe some common cause between Calvin & Luther? Among the various functions and official acts of a servant of the Church the most important of … Continue reading
Thesis Thursday
Walther opens Lecture 22 with a very interesting introduction concerning the state of the church, which seems somewhat familiar. In the excerpts below I skip around, but you can go read the whole lecture if you want to see how … Continue reading
Thesis Thursday
Excerpts from Lecture 21: A week ago we were told that faith is not a dead, inert affair, but something that transforms and renews the heart, regenerates a person, and brings the Holy Spirit into his soul. Tonight we shall … Continue reading
Thesis Thursday
From lecture 20. More Calvinist-bashing. Sigh. Many things might still be said in discussion of the ninth thesis, but we must not tarry at this thesis any longer if we wish to finish the series. Thesis X. In the sixth … Continue reading
Thesis Thursday
In lecture 19 (finally, we come to the end of Thesis IX!), Walther criticizes conversionism. One of the most important of the many doctrinal differences that were discussed during the first half of the eighteenth century between the so-called Pietists … Continue reading
Blessed Are The Tax Collectors
In my last post I mentioned Michele Bachmann’s intent to abolish any law limiting political speech in churches. To be specific, she said We silence the pastors because of a law that Lyndon Johnson put into effect in the 1950s … Continue reading
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Thesis Thursday
We’re still on Thesis IX. In the fifth place, the Word of God is not rightly divided when sinners who have been struck down and terrified by the Law are directed, not to the Word and the Sacraments, but to … Continue reading
Thesis Thursday
Lecture 17 again; Walther discusses Absolution: The Protestant churches, so called, which are outside of the pale of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, know nothing of the true way to forgiveness of sin by means of the Word and, in general, through … Continue reading
