Franz August Otto Pieper

Franz August Otto Pieper (June 27 1852 - June 3 1931) was a Confessional Lutheran theologian; born at Carwitz (85 m. w. of Danzig), Pomerania and died in St. Louis, Missouri. [Jason Todd and Marvin Huggins, " [http://chi.lcms.org/presidents/pres_pieper.htm Franz August Otto Pieper: Fourth President of the Missouri Synod: 1899-1911] . (St. Louis: Concordia Historical Institute, 1998)."] After studying at the gymnasium of Colberg, Pomerania. He emigrated to the United States in 1870. [" [http://chi.lcms.org/presidents/pres_pieper.htm Franz August Otto Pieper] ."] In 1872, he graduated from Northwestern University in Watertown, Wisconsin and in 1875 from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo. He was Lutheran pastor at Manitowoc, Wisconsin (1875–78), professor of theology in Concordia Seminary (1878 to 1887), president of the same institution, and also president of the Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and other states since 1899. He also served as editor of Lehre und Wehre, the faculty journal of Concordia Seminary.

From 1882 to 1899, Pieper served on the Board of Colored Missions for the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America. He was the Synod's president from 1899 until 1911. [" [http://chi.lcms.org/presidents/pres_pieper.htm Franz August Otto Pieper] ."]

External links

* [http://chi.lcms.org/presidents/pres_pieper.htm Concordia Historical Institute]
* [http://www.scholia.net/files/other/06%20Doctrine%20n%20Practice%20by%20Pieper%20tr.%20by%20Howes%20Essau.PDF Our Position in Doctrine and Practice] by Dr. Franz Pieper
* [http://www.lutherantheology.com/pieper/tvcgod.html Lectures on the Evangelical Lutheran Church, The True Visible Church of God on Earth] by Dr. Franz Pieper, trans. by Bryce L. Winters
* [http://solascripturalutheran.bravehost.com/Trembling%20at%20God.htm Trembling at God’s Word] by Dr. Franz Pieper
* [http://www.concordialutheranconf.com/clc/content/church-government-essay.cfm The Doctrine of Church Government] by Dr. Franz Pieper
* [http://www.wlsessays.net/authors/PQ/PieperFellowship/PieperFellowship.pdf The Glorious Blessing of Brotherly Fellowship in Faith] by Dr. Franz Pieper
* [http://www.wlsessays.net/authors/PQ/PieperUnionism/PieperUnionism.PDF Theses on Unionism] by Dr. Franz Pieper
* [http://www.angelfire.com/ny4/djw/lutherantheology.pieperwitness.html The Witness of History for Scripture (Homologoumena and Antilegomena)] by Dr. Franz Pieper, Translated by T. Engelder, J. T. Mueller & W. W. F. Albrecht (from Christian Dogmatics, Vol I, page 330-38.)
* cite book
title=Christliche Dogmatik
author=Franz August Otto Pieper, Franz Pieper, Ernest Eckhardt
year=1917
publisher=Concordia publishing house
isbn=
url=http://books.google.com/books?vid=0DA3AEDXYNWeqMOHaGEJcfU&id=vaQMAAAAIAAJ&dq=inauthor:Franz+inauthor:Pieper&num=100 by Dr. Franz Pieper
* cite book
title=Christliche Dogmatik
author=Franz August Otto Pieper, Ernest Eckhardt
year=1920
publisher=Concordia publishing house
isbn=
url=http://books.google.com/books?vid=0yNGX2P-X4gKFyagARmFlzi&id=FaUMAAAAIAAJ&dq=inauthor:Franz+inauthor:Pieper&num=100 by Dr. Franz Pieper
* [http://www.reclaimingwalther.org/articles/pieperohcintro.htm The Distinction Between Orthodox & Heterodox Churches] by Dr. Franz Pieper, Translated by G. Schweikert, P.T. Meicher, and E.L. Mehlbert. from Christliche Dogmatik Vol III

Works by Franz Pieper

" [http://www.studiumexcitare.com/files/000046.pdf C.F.W. Walther as a Theologian] ," Tr. Caleb R. Bassett, Studium Excitare 3(2005)No. 1.
Christliche Dogmatik. 3 vols. (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1917-1924)
Christian Dogmatics,4 vols. (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1950-1953)
Distinctive Doctrines of the Lutheran Church (Philadelphia, 1892)
Gesetz und Evangelium (1892)
Das Grundbekenntnis der evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche (St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House, 1880).
Lehre von der Rechtfertigung (1889)
Unsere Stellung in Lehre und Praxis (St. Louis, 1896)
Lehrstellung der Missouri-Synode (1897)
Christ's Work (1898).Das Wesen des Christentums.(1903)
What Is Christianity and Other Essays Tr. John Theodore Mueller (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1933)
Zur Einigung der amerikanisch-lutherischen Kirche in der Lehre von der Bekehrung und Gnadenwahl (1913).

References

"This article includes content derived from the public domain Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, 1914."