Author: jetbrane
I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling.
I am postmillennial in my eschatology.
Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity
Reformed in my Soteriology
Presuppositional in my apologetics
Familialist in my family theology
Agrarian in my regional community social order belief
Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief
Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic
Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern
Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview
One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics
Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place
Some of my favorite authors,
Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc.
My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture.
Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.
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Walther is not a contemporary Lutheran. He’s the founding theologian of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, and he died in the late 19th century after writing an essay called “Humanism and Slavery”, opposing abolitionism, and then near the end of his life gave a series of lectures against “Communism and Socialism.” Sadly our church has been unable to speak clearly about race more or less since the 60’s. However, many late gen-x and younger Missouri Synod pastors have been privately discussing these questions for at least a decade, and this talk is perhaps a fruit of these discussions. I don’t know to what extent our views overlap with “kinism”.
The “CTCR” is the LCMS Commission on Theology and Church Relations, which gives theological opinions on behalf of the LCMS. “Fort Wayne” and “St. Louis” are the two seminaries of the LCMS. The minority report he is quoting from was written decades ago, before wokeism, and indicates the extent to which conservatives generally used to be able to say obvious things without being called racist. Unfortunately I would say that minority report is an outlier in discussions on race in the LCMS since the 60’s.