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that were already causing disruption among the members of the Synodical Conference in the area of proper biblical hermeneutics. II. The Wauwatosa Theology (1904-1929) Joel Pless defines the Wauwatosa theology in this way, Between the years 1904-1929, in a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a unique approach to both the study and the interpretation of the Holy Scriptures was developed. The hermeneutical method has been called the “Wauwatosa theology” or the “Wauwatosa Gospel.” Its originators were three men trained at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. All were students of the American Luther, Dr. C.F.W. Walther. The Wauwatosa Theology received its name from the Milwaukee suburb where a Lutheran seminary was located which trained pastors for what is today known as the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. The three seminary professors who originated this approach to the study of Scripture were John P. Koehler, August Pieper, and John Schaller, the “Wauwatosa Triumvirate.” …Central to Koehler’s approach to Scripture, later shared by both Pieper and Schaller, was the view that the Scriptures should be historically and grammatically interpreted on the basis of the original Hebrew and Greek texts, with no dogmatic or ecclesiastical presuppositions. This method proved to be the heart and core of the Wauwatosa theology. 103 During the first decade of the 20 th century, a series of free conferences were held between Ohio, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, and various other Midwestern church bodies. The main article of disagreement still remained the doctrine of election, which had caused Ohio to break fellowship with the Synodical Conference and caused a civil war among the Norwegians. While the free conferences did not accomplish their goal of 103 Joel Pless, “The Doctrine of the Word of God According to the Wauwatosa Theology.” Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary on-line essay file. http://www.wlsessays.net/authors/PQ/PlessWauwatosa/PlessWauwatosa.pdf. (Accessed July 21, 2008), 1. 56
inging unity to the various Lutheran bodies on the basis of God’s Word, they did serve as the catalyst for the Wauwatosa Theology. Two things troubled the Wauwatosa men in the discussions that had occurred. The first was the desire to quote the fathers and their interpretations of passages rather than doing proper exegesis of the Scripture. This was especially notable among the Missourians. August Pieper comments, Nevertheless, Walther’s method, however justified as it may have been in the beginning, was in principle and practice wrong. It did not rest directly on Scripture and did not lead one directly into it – something that Luther with all his writing wanted to bring about…This caused people to thing that the point that was presented or discussed was sufficiently established by the quotations from Luther and the fathers without a study of Scripture itself. It kept people from studying the Scriptures…. The citation theology, which thus became fashionable in the case of many a student, outdid the master and produced a theology of the fathers which came home with a vengeance in the election controversy. 104 The second problem, especially evident in the Ohio, Iowa, and the United Church, was a rationalism that tried to harmonize all the articles of faith into a logical package. This problem naturally would occur when a person faith’s was not based upon Scripture itself but on what some father had said about Scripture. Schaller notes this danger, Only in the written Word do we have the truth…What God has uttered in His doctrine is His doctrine, is the truth, and in the very form of the words He has chosen. Faith grasps this presentation of the truth and consequently possesses the truth precisely in this presentation. Therefore they have the truth that cling to the simple, clear word of Scripture as THE doctrine. It is therefore at least inexact to say divine truth is that which is clearly expressed in Scripture and results from 104 Pieper, Anniversary Reflections, 263. 57
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Scripture. 257 The ELS, due to its
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