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Introduction To Sacred Theology, J T. Mueller
Introduction To Sacred Theology, J T. Mueller
Concordia Theological Monthly
The Nature and Constitution of Sacred Theology.
Christianity, the Absolute Religion
The Christian religion is the absolute religion, inasmuch as it is absolutely perfect, neither requiring, nor being capable of, improvement or supplementation. It is God-given and therefore precisely as God would have it to accomplish its beneficent purpose of "saving sinners." When we ascribe to the Christian religion perfection or absoluteness we do not mean to say that it is a "logically complete whole", or a logically complete and perfect system, in which there are no missing links of thoughts or doctrines. Considered from this viewpoint, the Christion religion …