"Charity does not cover error, because error is the daughter of sin, and charity is the daughter of God." Charles P. Krauth's prescient notes touch on SELK's ambiguous response to women's ordination.
It would be helpful if you noted that your enumerated points are yours not Krauth's. Krauth was dealing with different, though not unrelated, issues than the church today. His apologetics and polemics are well worth studying in their historic context. We are reminded here that the church is ever in need of reformation as the church, buffeted by the winds of false teaching, is subject to veering off course. The churches that trace their heritage back to Krauth have suffered the same drift.
That's fair. Krauth's work is history, but in it I find things that appeal to my interests. He pulls forward the lessons of history to his own times, and likewise, I have done that too. As I wrote, it is a gold mine, and the footnoting is from all over the place, indicating how many drifts and stopes were developed to pull this together.
That said, I don't think Pr. Krauth would accuse me of unreasonably torturing his history to make these points and arrive at the conclusion. My education ended with a B.A. in International Relations and Politics at a mediocre university, so that is also a factor.
It is important to note that Krauth was not LCMS but rather The General Council which was largely an east coast synod. He is representative of a Lutheran tradition in PA and the northeast as a whole that is now largely and unfortunately gone.
It would be helpful if you noted that your enumerated points are yours not Krauth's. Krauth was dealing with different, though not unrelated, issues than the church today. His apologetics and polemics are well worth studying in their historic context. We are reminded here that the church is ever in need of reformation as the church, buffeted by the winds of false teaching, is subject to veering off course. The churches that trace their heritage back to Krauth have suffered the same drift.
That's fair. Krauth's work is history, but in it I find things that appeal to my interests. He pulls forward the lessons of history to his own times, and likewise, I have done that too. As I wrote, it is a gold mine, and the footnoting is from all over the place, indicating how many drifts and stopes were developed to pull this together.
That said, I don't think Pr. Krauth would accuse me of unreasonably torturing his history to make these points and arrive at the conclusion. My education ended with a B.A. in International Relations and Politics at a mediocre university, so that is also a factor.
Great article. Thank you for sharing.
It is important to note that Krauth was not LCMS but rather The General Council which was largely an east coast synod. He is representative of a Lutheran tradition in PA and the northeast as a whole that is now largely and unfortunately gone.