# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S831
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246 INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS

sions of Synod. C.F.BrommMer Kari Krerzmann

F. H. Brunn W. Arnpt
April 12, 1944 J. H.C. Frrrz
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Memorial on Lutheran Union, Resolutions of 1938, et
Dear BRETHREN IN CHRIST: a

Wuereas, The honorable Synod in 1932 in the Brief Statement

“of the Doctrinal Position of the Missouri Synod declared (para
graph 44), “Not to be included in the number of open questions are‘
the following: the doctrine of the Church and the Ministry, of Sun
day, of Chiliasm, and of Antichrist, these doctrines being clearly;

defined in Scripture”; and :
Wuereas, The honorable Synod in 1938 through the Report’ of
Committee 16 declared regarding certain “doctrines” that deviation:
concerning them “need not be divisive of church fellowship” (Pro
ceedings, 1938, pp. 229ff.); and ;
Wuereas, The American Lutheran Church in October, 1938, at®
Sandusky, Ohio, declared “that it is neither necessary nor possible:
to agree in all non-fundamental doctrines” (Concordia Theologica
Monthly, 1939, p.59; cf. explanation of the A. L. C. commissioners
ibid., p. 932); and
Wuereas, The honorable Synod in 1866 in Dr. Walther’s Th
Lutheran Church the True Visible Church declared, Thesis V.
“Gemeinschaften, welche zwar Gottes Wort noch wesentlich be.
halten, aber in Grundlehren des Wortes Gottes halsstarrig irren
sind, sofern sie solches thun, nach Gottes Wort nicht Kirchen,
sondern Rotten oder Secten, d. i, ketzerische Gemeinschaften’
(“Communions which indeed still retain God’s Word in essence,
but stubbornly err in fundamental teachings of God’s Word are, '
inasmuch as they do so, according to God’s Word not churches, but
factions, or sects, i.e., heretical communions”), and Thesis VI;
“Gemeinschaften, welche durch nicht grundstuerzende Irrthuemez;
oder um Personen, oder um Ceremonien, oder um des Lebens willen
die Einigkeit der Kirche zerstoeren, sind nach Gottes Wort Spa
tungen (Schismata) oder separatistische Gemeinschaften” (“Coni
munions which destroy the unity of the Church through errors not
subversive of the foundation of faith or because of persons or cere='
monies or life are, according to the Word of God, divisions
(schisms) or separatistic communions”), of which the Central Dis: