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Atonement in Confessional Lutheran Theology: Harnack, Thomasius, and Philippi

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Synoptic Text Information Services has released the fourth title in the Atonement in Confessional Lutheran Theology series. The new title is Atonement in Confessional Lutheran Theology: Harnack, Thomasius, and Philippi. The atonement theory of Johannes von Hofmann has left a mark on Lutheran theology that persists to this day. He rejected vicarious satisfaction and replaced it with a historical, dispensational theory of Heilsgeschicte (salvation history). Hofmann claimed to follow Luther better than his opponents and the whole Lutheran tradition since Luther’s death. He invoked the tactic of “Luther against the Lutherans.” Similarly, he claimed to represent the Lutheran confessions more…

Wyoming LCMS District Convention Book Deals

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Synoptic Text™ is registered to exhibit at the Wyoming LCMS District Convention in Casper, Wyoming, May 1-3, 2025. Eight titles will be offered with special convention discounts and in a super bundle. The titles are: Atonement in Confessional Lutheran Theology: Franz Pieper Atonement in Confessional Lutheran Theology: Jack D. Kilcrease Atonement in Confesssional Lutheran Theology: Chorus of Voices Atonement in Lutheran Orthdoxy: Baier-Walther Atonement in Lutheran Orthodoxy: Johannes Quenstedt, 2nd ed. Atonement in Lutheran Orthodoxy: Abraham Calov Vicarious Satisfaction in Lutheran Catechisms, Confessions, and Hymns Luther’s Liturgical Criteria and His Reform of the Canon of the Mass Information about each…

Atonement in Confessional Lutheran Theology: Jack D. Kilcrease

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Synoptic Text Information Services has released the third title in the series Atonement in Confessional Lutheran Theology. The new title is Atonement in Confessional Lutheran Theology: Jack D. Kilcrease. Among living Lutheran theologians writing primarily in English, no other author has more command of the atonement than Jack D. Kilcrease.In the foreword to this volume, The Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison, President of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, says “Dr. Kilcrease is a reliable, clear and faithful guide.” With the abiding confession that is in accordance with Scripture and the Lutheran confessions in the 1580 Book of Concord, Harrison says Kilcrease patiently and…

Book Specials for ND LCMS Convention

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Synoptic Text™ is registered to exhibit at the North Dakota LCMS District Convention in Minot, North Dakota, January 19-22, 2025. Seven titles will be offered with special convention discounts and in a super bundle. Discounts range from 15% to 30.95%.

Atonement in Confessional Lutheran Theology: Chorus of Voices

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Synoptic Text Information Services has released the second title in the series Atonement in Confessional Lutheran Theology. The new title is Atonement in Confessional Lutheran Theology: Chorus of Voices. This volume is an anthology that presents a chorus of Lutheran voices teaching the Lutheran doctrine of Christ’s atonement. Their writings are evidence of two distinct things: Before and aside from whether it is true, what the Lutheran doctrine of atonement is. The Lutheran doctrine of atonement is true from Scripture and is the doctrine confessed in the Lutheran confessions. On the first of those things, there are theologians and teachers…

Atonement in Confessional Lutheran Theology: Franz Pieper

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Synoptic Text Information Services, Inc. has released its next new title, Atonement in Confessional Lutheran Theology: Franz Pieper. Presented in English are three of Franz Pieper’s writings about the atonement: The Doctrine of Christ’s Work, capturing the lecture notes on the atonement used at Concordia Seminary, the first translation of Die Lehre von Christi Werk: de Officio Christi (Baier III, 100-133) into English ever published. The Reconciliation of Man with God, a district convention address. The High Priestly Office of Christ, newly translated “Das hohepriesterliche Amt Christi” in Christliche Dogmatik (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1917), II.404-461. Pieper shows that the confessional Lutheran doctrine…

Vicarious Satisfaction in Lutheran Catechisms, Confessions, and Hymns

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By T. R. Halvorson Lutheran Orthodoxy teaches that a vital part of the work of God in Christ is atonement by vicarious satisfaction. Vicarious satisfaction is attested in Scripture, the Lutheran confessions in the Book of Concord, explanations of the Catechism, Lutheran hymns, the liturgy, the Sacraments, and so on. Nevertheless, the atonement is in controversy in Lutheran circles. The adversaries deny vicarious satisfaction. They substitute a general amnesty that is announced in a bloodless absolution. According to them, the cross would not have been necessary had sinners only believed that God can and does just “up and forgive.” In…

Atonement in Lutheran Orthodoxy: Abraham Calov

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Atonement by vicarious satisfaction is at the center of all Christian doctrine. It is the foundation of the forgiveness of sins, justification, and faith. The Apology of the Augsburg Confession says, “We are justified only when we receive Christ as the Atoning Sacrifice and believe that for Christ’s sake God is reconciled to us. Neither is justification even to be dreamed of without Christ as the Atonement.” The importance of the atonement cannot be calculated. Therefore it is the principal target of attack. It is a unique object of derision. It arouses the fiercest resentment and opposition, a concert of…

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By Johann Baier Edited and annotated by C. F. W. Walther Translated by Theodore E. Mayes Foreword by Jack D. Kilcrease Biographical introductions by Timothy R. Schmeling & Martin Noland C. F. W. Walther selected Johann Wilhelm Baier’s Compendium Theologiae Positivae as the basis for the first dogmatics used to prepare pastors for The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Walther edited Baier’s Compendium and annotated it with excerpts from Luther and orthodox Lutheran theologians. Baier-Walther’s “On the office of Christ” (Vol. III, Cap. II. Sectio III, De officio Christi) is both an antidote to errors about atonement in Lutheran circles and evidence of the doctrine of the…

Second Edition of Atonement in Lutheran Orthodoxy: Johannes Quenstedt

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Johannes Quenstedt’s De Officio Christi is an antidote to errors about atonement in Lutheran circles. Lutheran Orthodoxy teaches that an indispensable part of atonement is vicarious satisfaction. Adversaries deny vicarious satisfaction. Their errors existed already in Quenstedt’s time. While teaching the orthodox truth, Quenstedt thoroughly refutes the adversaries from Scripture. Robert D. Preus says, “Quenstedt was the Thomas Aquinas, so to speak, of Lutheran Orthodoxy, the last great representative. … [H]e was fair and meticulous in his work and drew from the best which his precursors had to offer. … Quenstedt’s systematic section on the Atonement actually presents nothing but exegesis of…