Franz Pieper: no uncertainty (90th anniversary–Pieper's passing)

      Today, June 3, 2021, marks the 90th anniversary since the day that the "Twentieth Century Luther", Dr. Franz Pieper, went home.  I would mark this day with a short excerpt from his Foreword to the 1928 journal Lehre und Wehre.  Dr. Pieper's focus was about dispelling the myths that promote uncertainty in the Christian Church.  From Lehre und Wehre, vol. 74 (Jan. 1928), p. 2:

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F. Pieper @ foundation laying
of new seminary (Oct. 26, 1924)

The Christian church of our time deals with modern theology. But modern theology, and especially the theology that calls itself Lutheran, is a theology of uncertainty. It is a producer and nurse of the monstrum incertitudinis. It is this primarily through two things. Firstly, it rejects the infallible divine authority of Holy Scripture, the sola Scriptura. Then she also rejects the Christian doctrine of grace, the sola gratia. Through both of these it consequently becomes a theology of uncertainty. 

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It is my hope to present a polished translation of his entire essay on "uncertainty" in a future blog.  But it is this very subject that caused my eyes to be opened to Pieper's position in the Lutheran Church.