Lutheran Soteriology

[Ioustinos]

Hi Folks!

Apart from the Book of Concord what books would you recommend by conservative Lutheran theologians that deal primarily with soteriology? Most specifically election, the scope of Christ's atonement, and apostasy.

Thanks,

Justin

 

[cerette]

Francis Pieper: Christian Dogmatics

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

Curious question I have, and probably should know long ago, but never in 30 years in the Luther Church Missouri Synod in St.Louis (Zion Lutheran) and Tulsa (Redeemer)
do I remember hearing :
was Martin Luther conservative ?
He preached and wrote a lot about the apostasy/apostate church (as did all the other reformers);
only I didn't know this until after crisscrossing the country for jobs and for fun and visiting a lot of other groups.

ps currently I go to Grace Lutheran every month, and have some interesting though not any deep(yet) discussions there.

 

[DaRev]

Curious question I have, and probably should know long ago, but never in 30 years in the Luther Church Missouri Synod in St.Louis (Zion Lutheran) and Tulsa (Redeemer)
do I remember hearing :
was Martin Luther conservative ?
He preached and wrote a lot about the apostasy/apostate church (as did all the other reformers);
only I didn't know this until after crisscrossing the country for jobs and for fun and visiting a lot of other groups.

ps currently I go to Grace Lutheran every month, and have some interesting though not any deep(yet) discussions there.

It depends on how you define the word "conservative."

From one standpoint he could be viewed as a liberal in that he was against the status quo of the time, namely the practice of the Roman Church. But from another point he was conservative because his intent was to revert the Church back to what it had previously taught and confessed prior to the rise of the papacy.