The Lonely Way

by Sasse, Hermann; Harrison, Matthew C.; Feuerhahn, Ronald R.

• ISBN13: 9780758600042
• ISBN10: 0758600046
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Concordia Pub House

Summary

What would have happened if in the second century Basilidians, Valentinians, Marcionites and Catholics, Montanists, Theodotians and Modalists had had a roundtable discussion and said this: For the sake of missions, let us bury the war hatchet. As followers of Jesus we desire nothing other than to follow the Master, to build one church in which everyone may carry on his particular tradition within the realm of a common truth, over against the one Lord of the one church. What would have come of the church of the fourth and fifth centuries if, for the sake of the mission task, it had not battled through the Arian and Nestorian controversies, if Arian, Homousian, Nestorian, Monophysite, Pelagian, and followers of Augustine had allowed themselves simply to be united in one great ecclesiastical communion? This question is posed in order to find the only answer which can be given to it: Today the church would simply no longer exist. The church would have been ruined. Just as a man whose kidneys no longer eliminate poisons which have accumulated in the body will die, so the church will die which no longer eliminates heresy. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Hermann Sasse (1895-1976) was trained at the University of Berlin under such well-known theologians as Harnack and Deissmann. During a study year in America, Sasse discovered the writings of Wilhelm Lohe and returned to Europe a convinced confessional Lutheran. In this faith he persisted, despite great difficulties, as a professor of theology at the University of Erlangen and then at Immanuel Seminary (later renamed Luther Seminary), North Adelaide, Australia

Table of Contents

Principal Abbreviations and Works Cited	p. 7
Preface to Vom Sakrament des Altars (1941 NN)	p. 11
The Lord's Supper in the Catholic Mass (1941 NN)	p. 17
The Formula of Concord's Decision about the Lord's Supper (1941 MH)	p. 33
Flight from Dogma: Remarks on Bultmann's "Demythologization" of the New Testament (1942 MH)	p. 93
The Lutheran Doctrine of the Office of the Ministry (1943/1944 MH)	p. 117
Circular Letter 3 to Westphalian Pastors: [The Lutheran Pastoral Office] (1944 MH)	p. 141
Circular Letter 4 to Westphalian Pastors: [Holy Baptism] (1944 MH)	p. 153
Circular Letter 5 to Westphalian Pastors: [The Holy Lord's Supper] (1944 MH)	p. 163
Luther's Legacy to Christianity (1946 MH)	p. 171
The Question of the Church's Unity on the Mission Field (1946 MH)	p. 179
The Office of Teacher in the Ancient Church: Herman Sasse's Inaugural Lecture (1946 PA)	p. 197
The End of the Lutheran Territorial Churches in Germany (1948 JK)	p. 215
Fathers of the Church (1954 MH)	p. 223
Letter to Arthur Carl Piepkorn (1956)	p. 237
Selective Fellowship (1957)	p. 247
The Crisis of Lutheranism (1959)	p. 267
Liturgy and Confession: A Brotherly Warning against the "High Church" Danger (1959 MH)	p. 299
"Did God Really Say ...?" A Reply to Professor Dr. Helmut Thielicke's Article "Thoughtless, Doctrinaire, Loveless" (1963 CE)	p. 317
The Ecumenical Challenge of the Second Vatican Council (1965)	p. 323
"Inclusive Lutheranism" (1966)	p. 341
The Early Church and Abortion (1968)	p. 347
The Crisis of the Christian Ministry (1968)	p. 355
Erasmus, Luther, and Modern Christendom (1968)	p. 373
Circular to the Pastors of the Darling Downs Zone Conference of the Lutheran Church of Australia, Queensland (1969)	p. 385
Thoughts on the Centenary of the First Vatican Council (1970)	p. 391
Ordination of Women? (1971)	p. 401
Ten Years after the Council: Some Thoughts for Ecumenical Discussion (1976)	p. 413
The Consensus Tigurinus	p. 437
Index	p. 451
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