* * * Reformation Day, 2023 * * *
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This post continues from the previous post presenting a new English translation of Dr. Franz Pieper's 3-volume Christliche Dogmatik series of books. — It is fitting to present a volume of Franz Pieper's greatest work on this Reformation Day as his books brought to me Luther, loud and clear, as I was returning to my Christian faith after a lapse. Following Volume 2, we present Volume 1 in a modified DeepL machine translation. The same comments apply from the first post on Volume 2. (The hyperlinks have been vastly updated. Every page has a link to the approximate 1950 CPH translation page.)
Notable Quotes:
VI: “…our teachers continued to admonish us not to substitute any human authority, not even the authority of Luther and the symbolic books, for the divine authority of Scripture”
8: “there are not a thousand, nor four, but only two essentially different religions in the world: the religion of the Law, that is, the effort to reconcile with God by way of one's own human works, and the religion of the Gospel.”
61: Luther: “Let them cry and rave, 'Church, Church!'; without God's Word it is nothing.”
68-69: “They label the drawing of Christian doctrine from Scripture with a whole series of evil names such as: Intellectualism, Biblicism, literal theology, mechanical view of Scripture”
72: “All the apologetic activity that stands at our disposal is not able to change the human heart”
102: “The "happy inconsistency" is followed by the "unhappy consequence". … the rejection of baptism and the Lord's Supper as means of grace has led Reformed people to consistently reject even the external Word of the Gospel as a means of grace.”
113: “All extra-biblical material, whether it concerns language or historical circumstances, must not be decisive in exegesis.”
114: “In the Christian Church everything depends on doctrine,” [Not liturgy.]
134: “modern theologians… make "problems" out of the very doctrines that are clearly taught in Scripture.”
187: “This criticism [Repristination Theology] applies especially to the Missouri Synod and its writings. Dr. Walther, to whom, however, the leading role among the fathers of the Missouri Synod is rightly attributed…”
192: Walther: "Come and see!… see whether there is a so-called dead orthodoxism and not rather a living experiential knowledge that has matured under inner struggles!”
217: Luther: “I do not want peace and unity if one loses the Word of God”
225: “Unfortunately, we [Missourians] have been met with the same bitterness on the part of the theologians of Germany that we have been met with in this country”
238: “The Unitarians stand extra ecclesiam [outside the Church].”
260: “Scripture is neither a human nor a "God-man" account of God's Word… but God's Word itself.”
280: “He who denies the inspiration of Scripture,… destroys… the foundation of the Christian Church, because,… the Christian Church is built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets.”
284: “By the human side, which they have at heart, they mean the alleged errors in Scripture.”
287: “…the word of Christ has really been preserved. We know this a priori, from the divine promise.”
363: “The Jews based their sonship to God on their bodily descent from Abraham.”
371: Walther: “Beware, beware, I say, of this 'divine-human Scripture'! It is the devil's mask!”
384: “Luther… says…that Scripture is the only book in which no historical errors can occur”
424: “Roman theologians defended themselves against the doctrine of the Scriptures, that also the "laity" could and should judge in matters of doctrine on the basis of the Scriptures”
427: “To its symbols the Lutheran Church… [confesses] precisely those doctrines revealed in Scripture.”
444: “The Lutheran Church, on the other hand, does not stand on an exposition of Scripture, but on Scripture itself.”
463: “Luther's powerful words about the name "Jehovah" deserve to be read again and again. He writes …in his writing of the Shem Hamphoras…”
577: “It is unworthy of a Christian to reinterpret or allow oneself to reinterpret the Holy Scripture, which he has recognized as God's own Word, according to human opinions (hypotheses), including the so-called Copernican world system”
614-615: “The French Revolution at the end of the 18th century… is matched by recent events (the activities of the Communists and many Socialists of the deliberately untruthful statesmen and their accomplices, the newspaper editors during and after the World War [WWI]).”
627: “…the woman is forbidden to occupy a position of dominion over the man 1 Tim. 2:12”
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The 1950 CPH translation may be borrowed on 1-hour increments here for comparison and reference.
The following is a viewer of the latest PDF file (as of 2023-10-31):
The latest DOCX file, English version is HERE (10-31-2023), without highlighting HERE (10-31-2023); German version here (10-31-2023). The PDF uploaded to the Internet Archive may be viewed here.
Soon to follow will be the final volume 3… in the next post in this series.
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