Christian Dogmatics

by John Theodore Mueller

Publisher:

Concordia Publishing House

, 1934

Overview

Christian Dogmatics is a helpful handbook of doctrinal theology based on Francis Pieper’s Christliche Dogmatik. It presents the voluminous material in Pieper’s work in a clear, concise, complete, and practical manner for the use of theology students.

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Key Features

• Foreword by the author
• Preface by P. E. Kretzmann
• Topical index

Contents

Top Highlights

“True religion is communion with the true God through faith in Jesus Christ; it is nothing more and nothing less.” (Page 4)

“Formula of Concord defines the Law thus: ‘The Law is properly a divine doctrine which teaches what is right and pleasing to God and reproves everything that is sin and contrary to God’s will.’ The same confession defines the Gospel in its narrow sense as follows: ‘The Gospel is properly such a doctrine as teaches what man who has not observed the Law and therefore is condemned by it is to believe, namely, that Christ has expiated, and made satisfaction for, all sins and has obtained and acquired for him, without any merit of his, forgiveness of sins, righteousness that avails before God, and eternal life.’” (Page 44)

“It is well to remind the doubting, fearing Christian also of the fact that even the desire to be saved through Jesus Christ is already actual, or direct, faith; for such a desire is never found in the natural, unregenerate heart, 1 Cor. 2:14, but is the gift of the Holy Spirit, Eph. 1:19; Rom. 8:23.” (Page 331)

“b) Saving faith is always fides actualis, or the apprehension of the divine promise by an act of the intellect and will.” (Page 323)

“In other words, we must never separate Baptism from Christ; it exists only because Christ commanded it, and it is efficacious only because it rests on His vicarious atonement, by which He secured all the spiritual blessings that are offered in Baptism.” (Page 489)

Product Details

• Title: Christian Dogmatics
• Author: John Theodore Mueller
• Edition: electronic ed.
• Publisher: Concordia Publishing House
• Print Publication Date: 1934
• Logos Release Date: 2007
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Theology, doctrinal
• Resource ID: LLS:42.100.16
• Resource Type: Systematic Theology
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-03-06T18:09:26Z