I found this article confusing, because it's littered with the kind of personalized beat-downs that characterize what has come to pass for confessional Lutheranism. It's insider baseball, with two or three villains declared in advance.
And yet the topic is important. A Lutheran resolution template in my opinion works the dynamics of the Christian life through Holy Baptism and an appreciation for "the riches of this mystery, Christ in you (plural), the hope of glory. Indeed (viz. John's Gospel) the mystery is that in baptism God Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwell in the believer in a mystical union, leading to the Christian vocations of judge, priest and wrestler.
My advice - take a deep breath and a re-think. Theological resources abound.
I find nothing good concerning "scholastics" in the Book of Concord, so why are scholastic Lutherans coming out of the woodwork?
I found this article confusing, because it's littered with the kind of personalized beat-downs that characterize what has come to pass for confessional Lutheranism. It's insider baseball, with two or three villains declared in advance.
And yet the topic is important. A Lutheran resolution template in my opinion works the dynamics of the Christian life through Holy Baptism and an appreciation for "the riches of this mystery, Christ in you (plural), the hope of glory. Indeed (viz. John's Gospel) the mystery is that in baptism God Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwell in the believer in a mystical union, leading to the Christian vocations of judge, priest and wrestler.
My advice - take a deep breath and a re-think. Theological resources abound.
Funny that you should mention baseball, Mr. Yankee Stadium.
Knocked one out of the park, Ronert!
This is probably the number 1 problem in Lutherism, since it quite succesfully baptizes Nihilism.
The name I fashioned for it, rather than the vague Radical, and deservedly perjorative 'Fake'.
I call it Total Monergism, because they drag Monergism from appropriate doctrines to cover the totality of life, as they would surely acclaim.
We once had a pastor who taught this exact version of antinomianism. He was a big fan of a famous name associated with 1517.