Loy - The Burning Question

Ken McGuire

For various reasons, many corners of the Missouri Synod have kept using their texts from the Predestination controversy.  The other side has not done so, however.  I put the initial English paper from Missouri Synod out a bit ago at http://community.logos.com/forums/t/44432.aspx as well some works by Walther related to it.  I unable to find The Lutheran Standard or Columbus Theological Magazine online.  I did find some issues of Altes und Neues, but, to be honest, I don't feel like editing a blackface German language journal.

But I found myself in Columbus for something and went by the Library for Trinity Lutheran Seminary, and they had all 30 volumes of the Columbus Theological Magazine in their stacks.  I keyed in the lead article, which, while unsigned, is attributed to the Editor, Matthias Loy.

This article is both an introduction to the Magazine, as well as a critique of Missouri and a presentation of their side - mostly as an extended quote from a Century old Lutheran work.

"Ohio" did collect some key texts into a book "The Error of Modern Missouri".  If you are interested in a more in depth presentation, that will be forthcoming soon.  But this is a essay will let us hear a bit of Ohio in their own words.

SDG

Ken McGuire

EDIT:  I should have said that this is from the Feb 1881 issue of The Columbus Theological Magazine.  Page numbers are from the original journal.