Franz Friday Via “The Glorious Blessing of Brotherly Fellowship in Faith,” Thesis I All Christians are in inner, invisible fellowship with one another, because through the working of the Holy Spirit they altogether believe on Christ as their Savior and through this faith are bound together with Christ as the only Head of the church [...]
Franz Friday Vai Pieper’s Dogmatics vol. 1, p. 510 The activity of the evil angels against the Church is portrayed fully in Scripture. According to Matt. 16:18 “the gates of hell” are continually waging war against the Church, and it is Christ alone who preserves the Church against the onslaughts of the powers of hell. [...]
Franz Friday Via F. Pieper, “Our Position in Doctrine and Practice Lecture – delivered before the 1893 Synod of Delegates of the Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other states.” “That discipline in doctrine must remain standing in the first place is self-explanatory, for the right doctrine is the foundation for everything, or, to speak with [...]
Franz Friday by Francis August Otto Pieper Doubts disappear like mist before the sun, as soon as you hear the clear testimony of Scripture, which she witness to herself. The word of Scripture, she simply calls the word of the Holy Spirit, Heb. 3:7; Acts. 28:25. She says (2 Pet. 1:2), especially in relation to [...]
Franz Friday Via What Is Christianity? pp. 1-2 Christianity has been in existence for nearly two thousand years, – indeed, for almost six thousand, if we take into account the first Messianic promise. Can it be then, that Christians still disagree as to what Christianity really is? Is the nature of Christianity still a debatable [...]
I begin with our position on the Holy Scripture. Not only in Christianity outside in general, but also in some parts of the church that call themselves Lutheran, the infallible authority of the Holy Scripture is attacked nowadays. The Holy Scripture is supposedly no longer the infallible Word of God, to which all that are [...]
Franz Friday The following article appears in Volume II, page 437 of Pieper’s Christian Dogmatics. Pieper explains why the correct translation is justification “by faith” or “through faith” and not “because of faith.” 5 The Function of Faith in Justification: In the preceding characterization of faith we have stated again and again that justifying faith [...]
Franz Friday Pieper, St. L. III: 1887 The question how the theologian attains subjective certainty, how he attains personal assurance of the truth of the Christian doctrine (erkenntnis-theoretische Frage), is much discussed today. The moderns, both of the “conservative” and the “liberal” wing, raise the “problem,” and some of their spokesmen are free to confess [...]
Franz Friday Pieper – “Holy Scripture,” in Christian Dogmatics, vol. 1, 364-65. Exegesis, in its double function of the enarratio of the Scriptural content and of the removal of obscurities by means of the clear passages, is a most serious and sacred occupation. The Scriptures are the Word of God, and adding to them or [...]
