Franz Pieper

Franz Pieper expounds on the meaning of “fearing God’s Word” in the sense of revering it and treating it as holy and as God wants us to treat it. He warns against trying to rationalize God’s Word, as the Zwinglians in Luther’s time did and even Lutherans in Pieper’s day were doing. True Christian unity only exists when there is agreement in doctrine and practice. This article is the Forward to volume 35 of Lehre und Wehre¸ January and February 1889, pp. 1-6, 33-37.

This article is part of a series about C.F.W. Walther which was published in Lehre und Wehre. It's chief focus is on Walther's steady teaching of the doctrine of justification. In a sense, the article is more about the glorious doctrine of justification by faith through Christ than it is about Walther.