dc.contributor.author | Preus, Robert | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-22T12:47:07Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-05-22T12:47:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1952 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1842/30657 | |
dc.description.abstract | | en |
dc.description.abstract | There are two reasons which Justify an Investigation
into the position of the seventeenth century Lutheran dogmatlciens
regarding the inspiration of Scripture, In the
first place the dogmatic!ans have had no small theological
influence upon their Lutheran posterity even down to the
present day, Succeeding generations of Lutherans have always
studied their theology, though often superficially, unsyspatheticslly
and unfortunately from seeundary sources. Their
theological tenets and even their terminology and theological
method have persisted in certain quarters to this day. This
influence is an undeniable fact although many Lutherans today
do not realise it and many others would not core to admit it,
And this Influence has mode itself felt not only in conservative Lutheran circles but also In the liberal branches
of the Lutheran church, K, Base's book, iiutterua redivlvu?.
and Lutherdt'e Compendium der Do^nntik. which has now gone
through fourteen editions, have both served to stimulate
interest in the theology of the dogmatic!ens on the part
of liberal Lutheran! em in Germany, Among the conservatives
Phllippi, who believed in the verbal inspiration of the Bible,
shows his regard for and dependence on the dogmatic!ans In
hi a iilrcbliche Glsubenelehre and draws heavily from then
In his prolegomena and consideration of Scripture, In America Heinrloh Cchald's very useful book, Lie hog-at lk der
evangelisch-lutherischen i!rche. has been translated into
English and has received wide circulation in liberal circles.
The tremendous influence effected by the old dograaticians
upon the large conservative segment of the Lutheran church
in America Is indicated In Franz Pieper's Christliohe Dogmatik. now being translated Into English, and Adolf Hoenecke'e
Ev. Luth. Doffmatlk. the two most exhaustive dogmatical works
written by Lutherans In America. Both Pieper and H0eneoke
evince a profound respect toward the seventeenth century
dogaaticians es theologians, and in their- treatment of Scripture they follow the dogmatlclans very closely. | en |
dc.description.abstract | In the second place the attitude of the old dograoticlans
toward Scripture has been the chief point where they, as
representatlves of seventeenth century Lutheran orthodoxy,
are remembered and Judged. No other era in Lutheran church
history has been depicted by historians, even Lutheran historians, with such a spirit of antagonism, no other era has
been described with such lack of sympathy and censured with
such lack of Justification, as the period which these men
dominated. The seventeenth century has too often been brushed
aside by historians as the period of dead orthodoxy In the
Lutheran church, although © cursory study of the era will
reveal © genuine Christian piety expressing itself in a weslth
of devotional literature and hymns which ©re sone of the
finest ever brought forth in the Lutheran church. The bitterness and misery of that century in which Europe experienced
only seven years of peace, the imminent threat to orthodox
Lutheranism from Catholicism and Calvinism from without and
syncretism from within, the fact that bitter invective wss
the rule in all controversiel issues, the fact that abhorrence, hatred and intolerance of false dootrlne all of which
seems to strange now was a guiding principle then, all these
important facts have been too often by-passed by church historians; and thus the possibility of appreciating
ing and motives and desires of these dogmaticlsns has been
all but destroyed. And why such alsiost universal disapproval of these men by posterity? The answer to this question may
be found partially in their stubborn, unrelenting assaults
against Romanism, Calvinism, unionism and everything not
strictly Lutheran, It may be found partially in their denunciation of syncretism and doctrinal indifferent ism on the
part of their sore liberal brethren in the Lutheran church,
But more than anything else, I believe, it is to be found
in their rigid adherence to the Lutheran principle of sols
ecrlotura and in their doctrine of verbal inspiration, tenets
which ere not cherished by the majority of modern theologians
and historians, That this Is the point where they have been
remembered and Judged will be brought out in the course of
this dissertation. | en |
dc.publisher | The University of Edinburgh | en |
dc.relation.ispartof | Annexe Thesis Digitisation Project 2018 Block 19 | en |
dc.relation.isreferencedby | | en |
dc.title | The inspiration of scripture as taught by the seventeenth century Lutheran dogmaticians | en |
dc.type | Thesis or Dissertation | en |
dc.type.qualificationlevel | Doctoral | en |
dc.type.qualificationname | PhD Doctor of Philosophy | en |