The Confessional Principle and the Confessions of the Lutheran Church

This book updates Charles Porterfield Krauth's work in The Conservative Reformation and Its Theology (1866) to the year 1911. It presents one of the most scholarly analyses for the Lutheran Confessions in that period. The book shows an awareness of an alignment with European scholarship of the day concerning the Confessions and the development of doctrine. Similar to Krauth, it demonstrates a confessional direction within the larger movement of "American Lutheranism" that could be significantly anti-confessional. The Confessional Principle and the Confessions of the Lutheran Church helps readers understand the issues that "old Missouri" has with some scholars of the time and why unity became a challenge in the twentieth century.