# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S231
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Intersynodical and Doctrinal Matters ; 231

As to other Lutheran bodies, for instance, the honorable United
itheran Church of America, we cannot report any meetings with
them.. Bécause of recent developments which were ‘still pending’
the drafting of this report, our written report cannot be com~
ted. The Committee will complete its report orally at:the ses-

ions of Synod. C.F.Brommer Kari KrerzMann

F. H. Bronn W. ARNDT
- April 12, 1944 J. H.C. Frrrz

emorial on Lutheran Union, Resolutions of 1938, etc.
(Memorial 602)
Wuergeas, The honorable Synod in 1932 in the Brief Statement
he Doctrinal Position of the Missouri Synod declared (para-
gra sh 44), “Not to be included in the number of open questions are
e'following:, the doctrine of the Church and the Ministry, of Sun-
y, of Chiliasm, and of Antichrist, these doctrines being clearly
defined in Scripture”; ‘and .
: Wuergas, The honorable Synod in 1938 through the Report of
‘Committee 16 declared regarding certain “doctrines” that deviation
“e concerning them “need not be divisive of church fellowship” (Pro-:
«ceedings, 1938, pp. 229ff.); and ‘
~~ WHerEas, 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 Theological
Monthly, 1939, p.59; cf. explanation of the A. L. C. commissioners,
ibid., p. 932); and
Wauereas, The honorable Synod in 1866 in Dr. Walther’s The
Lutheran Church the True Visible Church declared, Thesis Vv,
“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 Irrthuemer,
oder um Personen, oder um Ceremonien, oder um des Lebens willen
die Einigkeit der Kirche zerstoeren, sind. nach Gottes Wort Spal-
tungen (Schismata) oder separatistische Gemeinschaften” (“Com-
munions which destroy the unity of the Church through errors not
subversive of the foundation of faith or because of persons or cere-
i. monies or life. are, according to the Word of God, divisions

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