Anatomy of an explosion
Subtitle: Missouri in Lutheran perspective
By: Kurt E. Marquart ; with an introd. by Robert D. Preus
Series: Concordia Seminary monograph series -- no. 3
Publisher: Concordia Theological Seminary Press
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Fort Wayne, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Controversial literature; Lutheran Theology; Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: I. Needed: A realistic "model" of the Missouri Synod conflict; title: Background; title: II. The basic principle; title: A. The confessional principle; title: The Lutheran confessions; title: Background: Europe; title: Prussian Union; title: Background: America; title: The church in the confessions; title: "More" than the confessions?; title: A fatal fallacy: Doctrines or documents?; title: A. The biblical principle; title: The Bible in the confessions; title: Rationalism, historical criticism, and Missouri; title: Luther in fact and fiction; title: Foreground; title: III. The counter-confessional (Ecumenical) attack; title: Sclerosis: Prelude to haemorrhage; title: The collapse of confessional concepts of church and fellowship; title: the use of the confessions as a rabbit's foot; title: The question of church politics; title: Center stage; title: IV. The counter-biblical (critical) attack; title: The critical contagion in stages: ULC; title: ALC; title: LC-MS; title: Historical criticism: definitions and distinctions; title: Gospel and incarnation; title: Lutheran "controls": Law/gospel or Sola Scriptura?; title: Theology of the cross; title: or secular cringe?; title: V. Epilogue.