Franz Pieper

Franz August Otto Pieper (June 27, 1852 – June 3, 1931) was a Confessional Lutheran theologian who also served as the fourth president of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod, known at that time as the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States.

Life

Pieper was born at Karwitz, Pomerania, ( west of Danzig) and died in St. Louis, Missouri. After studying at the gymnasium of Kolberg, Pomerania, he emigrated to the United States in 1870. He graduated from Northwestern College in Watertown, Wisconsin, in 1872 and from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis in 1875. He was a Lutheran pastor from 1875 to 1878, serving first at Centerville, Wisconsin, and then at Manitowoc, Wisconsin. He became a professor of theology at Concordia Seminary in 1878, and served as president of the same institution from 1887 until his death in 1931. He also served as editor of ''Lehre und Wehre'', the faculty journal of Concordia Seminary.

From 1882 to 1899, Pieper served on the Board of Colored Missions for the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America. He also served as the fourth president of the Missouri Synod from 1899 to 1911.

As a systematic theologian, Franz Pieper's ''magnum opus'', ''Christliche Dogmatik'' (1917–1924), provided the modern world with a learned and extensive presentation of orthodox Lutheran theology. Translated into English as ''Christian Dogmatics'' (1950–1953), it continues to be the basic textbook of doctrinal theology in the Missouri Synod.Robert D. Preus, ed., ''Confessional Lutheran Dogmatics'', 13 vols. (St. Louis: The Luther Academy, 1989–2008), 6:viii. He was also the main author of ''A Brief Statement'' of 1932, an authoritative presentation of the synod's doctrinal stance.

Works

*''Christliche Dogmatik''. 4 vols. (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1917–1924) nglish translation: ''Christian Dogmatics''. 4 vols. (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1950–1953)br>(In German, public domain
Vol IVol IIVol III

*''The Synodical Conference'', an essay in ''The Distinctive Doctrines and Usages of the General Bodies of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States'' (Philadelphia, 1892), 119-166.
*''Gesetz und Evangelium'' (1892)
*''Das Grundbekenntnis der evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche'' (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1880).
*''Lehre von der Rechtfertigung'' (1889)
*''Unsere Stellung in Lehre und Praxis'' (St. Louis, 1896)
*''Lehrstellung der Missouri-Synode'' (1897)
*''Christ's Work'' (1898).
*''Das Wesen des Christentums'' (1903)
*
Conversion and Election : a Plea for a United Lutheranism
' (1913, HathiTrust Digital Library)
*''What Is Christianity and Other Essays''. John Theodore Mueller, tr. (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1933)

References

External links

Concordia Historical InstituteFranz August Otto Pieper, The 20th Century Luther

Our Position in Doctrine and Practice
by Dr. Franz Pieper


by Dr. Franz Pieper, trans. by Bryce L. Winters

The Glorious Blessing of Brotherly Fellowship in Faith
by Dr. Franz Pieper

Theses on Unionism
by Dr. Franz Pieper


by Dr. Franz Pieper, (from Christian Dogmatics, Vol I, page 330-38.)


by Dr. Franz Pieper, (from Christian Dogmatics, Vol III)
C. F. W. Walther as a Theologian
by Dr. Franz Pieper, Studium Excitare, Issue #8.
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Zur Einigung der amerikanisch-lutherischen Kirche in der Lehre von der Bekehrung und Gnadenwahl
by Dr. Franz Pieper (1913)
und Wehre''
8 Vols. of the faculty journal from Concordia Seminary

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