I'm just hoping that people will embrace their Lutheran identity because this is especially important today

Dr. Jean Edward Veth author of our book of the month for August

Embracing your Lutheran identity the story that I trace is a story of Lutheran

Confessions, the Lutheran Church, almost being wiped out time after time after time and then God intervenes and brings it back.

Learn more about embracing your Lutheran identity at issues ETC.org.

Half a century ago when most of mainline denominations, big small denominations, were flirting with skeptical Bible scholarship with a capitulation to the culture, the Lutheran Church, Missouri Senate remarkably stood at the edge

of that precipice, like everyone else, and turned back.

One of the ways that they did was by making a statement,

a statement of scriptural and confessional principles.

Welcome back to issues, et cetera.

I'm Todd Wilkin.

Joining us to conclude our series on a statement of scriptural and

confessional principles, Dr Martin Nolan, he's

pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in San Mateo, California,

former director of the Concordia Historical Institute and author of a chapter in the book,

Rediscovering the issues surrounding the 1974 Concordia Seminary Walkout.

Dr Nolan, welcome back.

Good to be here.

What was being taught by some of the faculty at Concordia Seminary at the time of a statement

regarding original sin?

The original sin doctrine maybe wasn't being directly denied, but what was being

taught was the acceptability of the idea of evolution, especially of mankind.

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