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The Doctrine of the Church and Its Ministry According to the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of the Usa THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH AND ITS MINISTRY ACCORDING TO THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD OF THE USA by KARL EDWIN KUENZEL Submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF THEOLOGY In the subject SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY at the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA PROMOTER: PROFESSOR ERASMUS VAN NIEKERK November 2006 ii Summary Nothing has influenced and affected the Lutheran Church in the U.S.A. in the past century more than the doctrine of the Church and its Ministry. When the first Norwegian immigrants entered the U.S. in the middle of the 19th century, there were not enough Lutheran pastors to minister to the spiritual needs of the people. Some of these immigrants resorted to a practice that had been used in Norway, that of using lay-preachers. This created problems because of a lack of proper theological training. The result was the teaching of false doctrine. Some thought more highly of the lay-preachers than they did of the ordained clergy. Consequently clergy were often viewed with a discerning eye and even despised. This was one of the earliest struggles within the Norwegian Synod. Further controversies involved whether the local congregation is the only form in which the church exists. Another facet of the controversy involves whether or not the ministry includes only the pastoral office; whether or not only ordained clergy do the ministry; whether teachers in the Lutheran schools are involved in the ministry; and whether or not any Christian can participate in the public ministry. Is a missionary, who serves on behalf of the entire church body, a pastor? If only the local congregation can call a pastor, then a missionary cannot be a pastor because he serves the entire church body in establishing new congregations. Is a seminary professor, who trains future pastors, a pastor? If only the local congregation can call a pastor, a seminary professor cannot be a pastor because he is called by the seminary board of control and not one particular congregation. In seeking to develop a statement that clearly defines the doctrine of the Church and its Ministry, a controversy exists within the church body known as the Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS), the successor synod to the Norwegian Synod. The reason for the controversy is that two different views of how to develop a doctrinal statement exist in the ELS. Some go directly to Scripture and set forth a position. Others follow an example found in C.F.W. Walther’s theses on Church and Ministry. They misunderstand and misuse this approach that was developed only for use in a controversy against an erring Lutheran pastor, Johannes Grabau of the Buffalo Synod. Many of those who utilize this approach are former members of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS), of which Walther was one of the founders. As a result of the two distinct approaches, there has been an inability to unanimously agree on the wording of the statements on the doctrine of the Church and its Ministry. It is the conclusion of the author that it is this reliance on statements made by individuals in previous centuries regarding particular situations that has caused the struggle to develop and serves to prolong it. List of Keywords Church, Holy Christian Church, Communion of Saints, Congregation, Ministry, Pastoral office, Public ministry, Representative ministry, The Keys, Lutheran, Evangelical Lutheran Synod, CFW Walther, Lutheran Orthodoxy, Pietism, Philip Melanchthon, Martin Luther, Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, Johannes Grabau, Buffalo Synod, Altenburg Debate, Citation Theology, The Ministry of the Keys, Personal Ministry, Rationalism, Higher Critical Method, The Doctrine of the Church and Ministry according to the ELS by K. Kuenzel iii Historical Grammatical Method, Grammatical Historical Method, Word of God, Bible, Scripture, Inspiration, Inerrancy, Philip Jacob Spener, August Herman Francke, Teigenites, Hans Hauge, Elling Eielsen, Schleiermacher. Acknowledgments I would like to thank the following ELS pastors for sharing their insights with me. They have experienced this struggle for the past thirty years or more. They are The Rev. Raymond Branstad, The Rev. El Roy Buhr, The Rev. Wilfrid Frick, The Rev. Rudolph Honsey, The Rev. Paul Madson, The Rev. Wilhelm Petersen, The Rev. Bjarne Teigen, The Rev. Ed Bryant, The Rev. Ervin Eckhoff, The Rev. Walther Gullixson, The Rev. Wayne Halvorson, The Rev. David Lillegard, The Rev. Juul Madson, The Rev. Ken Schmidt, The Rev. Paul Schneider, The Rev. Erling Teigen, The Rev. Fred Theiste, The Rev. Harold Vetter, and The Rev. Richard Wiechmann. I want to thank The Rev. Gaylin Schmeling, chairman of the ELS Doctrine Committee, for his help and encouragement. The Rev. Dr. John Brug for his help and encouragement. Mary Jane Tweit, Gaylin Schmeling’s secretary, for locating and mailing documents to me in a timely manner. Julie Ewert for assistance in locating documents in the Bethany Lutheran College Library. Vicar Timothy Schmeling for assistance in locating documents in the Bethany Lutheran Seminary Library. Natalie Thirion for her assistance with a bibliographical search at the University of South Africa Library. And, Susan Bywaters, from Northwestern Publishing House, who located and sent copies of back issues of the Wisconsin Lutheran Quarterly. I wish to thank Professor Erasmus van Niekerk for his outstanding encouragement, patience, guidance, and advice in the writing, preparation, and submission of this thesis. Special thanks are due to my patient wife and helpmeet Karen, who encouraged me during the writing of this paper and proofread the paper after it was written. Above all, I am grateful to the Lord God who in His rich grace and mercy led me to a deeper understanding of the doctrine of the Church and its Ministry through this study. The glory and the honor for these written results belong to Him who has blessed me with His Word and guided my study thereof. In Him, like Paul, I can and do rejoice. -Solo Deo Gloria- (To God alone the Glory) The Doctrine of the Church and Ministry according to the ELS by K. Kuenzel iv Table of Contents Chapter 1 1 Whence the Problem? 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Preliminary stating of the problem 2 1.2.1 Are Lutherans primarily dogmaticians or exegetical-students-of-the-Bible? 2 1.2.2 Norwegian Immigration to the USA 6 1.2.3 The Beginning of the Church and Ministry Controversy in the USA 7 1.2.4 Walther’s Format and Approach Immigrates to the ELS 8 1.2.5 Establishing Doctrine in the ELS 9 1.3 The basic problem and the basic statement of the study 9 1.3.1 The First Problem-setting: Are doctrines directly extracted from the Bible as the Word of God or indirectly derived through the writings of human beings? 9 1.3.2 The Second Problem-setting — believing …half-believing…non-believing approaches to the Bible. 11 1.3.3 The Third Problem-setting — doctrines embodied in the Bible…doctrines half- embodied in the Bible and half embodied in a human rational construction… doctrines solely an embodiment of human rational reflection (rationalism). 13 1.3.4 Terminology and the underlying Approach of the Thesis 14 1.3.5 How Others May View the Approach 15 1.4 Overview of the study 17 Chapter 2 The Historical background of the Current struggle and CFW Walther’s influence 19 2.1 Introduction 19 2.2 CFW Walther: primarily a dogmatician or an exegetical-student-of-the-Bible? 20 2.3 The historical background of the problem 25 2.4 The development of the problem 29 2.5 The Missouri Approach Continues to Influence the ELS 33 2.6 The Cincinnati Case 33 2.7 Male Teachers and the Public Ministry 35 2.8 Struggles within the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference 35 2.9 The Break-up of the Synodical Conference over Doctrinal Issues 36 2.10 The 1963 Conclave in Mankato 37 2.11 Continued Debates within the ELS 37 Chapter 3 An evaluation of Walther’s Theses on Church and Ministry 39 3.1 Introduction 40 3.2 The influence of Martin Stephan on Walther and the group in Missouri 42 3.3 Walther the Dogmatics Professor 43 3.4 Altenburg 48 3.5 The theses of Dr CFW Walther on the Church and the Ministry 50 3.5.1 Theses on the Church 51 3.5.1.1 Thesis I 52 3.5.1.2 Thesis II 52 3.5.1.3 Thesis III 53 3.5.1.4 Thesis IV 53 3.5.1.5 Thesis V 54 The Doctrine of the Church and Ministry according to the ELS by K. Kuenzel v 3.5.1.6 Thesis VI 54 3.5.1.7 Thesis VII 55 3.5.1.8 Thesis VIII 56 3.5.1.9 Thesis IX 58 3.5.2 Theses on the Ministry 58 3.5.2.1 Thesis I 59 3.5.2.2 Thesis II 60 3.5.2.3 Thesis III 61 3.5.2.4 Thesis IV 61 3.5.2.5 Thesis V 62 3.5.2.6 Thesis VI 62 3.5.2.7 Thesis VII 63 3.5.2.8 Thesis VIII 64 3.5.2.9 Thesis IX 65 3.5.2.10 Thesis X 67 3.6 Conclusion: Walther’s Format Continues To Be Used and Thus Foments Debate 67 Chapter 4 The Use of the Bible in Determining Doctrine 73 4.1 Introduction 73 4.2 Background to the current struggle between views, approaches and uses of the Bible 77 4.2.1 Theological Views in the Christian Church Pre-Reformation 79 4.2.1.1 The Allegorical View, Approach And Use Of The Bible 79 4.2.1.2 The Literal Sense View, Approach And Use Of The Bible 84 4.2.2 Differences between the Lutheran and Reformed Approaches to the Bible and Biblical Interpretation 87 4.2.2.1 Law and Gospel 95 4.2.2.2 Reason 96 4.2.2.3 The Means of Grace 99 4.2.2.4 Justification and Sanctification 101 4.2.2.5 Church and State 102 4.2.3 Theological Views in the Christian Church from the Reformation into the 20th century 104 4.2.3.1 Orthodoxy 104 4.2.3.2 Pietism 108 4.2.3.3 Rationalism 122 4.2.3.4 Neo-Protestantism 131 4.2.3.5 Restoration Theology 135 4.2.3.6 Mediating Theology 136 4.2.3.7 New Lutheranism 137 4.2.3.8 Erlangen Theology 138 4.2.3.9 Liberal Protestantism 139 4.2.3.10 Neo-orthodoxy 140 4.2.3.11 Summary and Critique of Post-Reformation Theological Views 143 4.3 The Inspiration and the Inerrancy of the Bible 145 4.3.1 The Word of God 146 4.3.1.1 The Word of God is the Son of God 147 4.3.1.2 The Word of God Speaks About God 148 4.3.1.3 The Word of God Is His Revelatory Acts 148 4.3.1.4 The Word of God is God’s Word 149 The Doctrine of the Church and Ministry according to the ELS by K.
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