Concordia Theological Quarterly Volume 77:1 ²2 January/April 2013 Table of Contents In Memoriam: Harold H. Zietlow (1926 ²2011) ............................................. 3 Epistles before Gospels: An Axiom of New Testament Studies David P. Scaer ....................................................................................... 5 Moses in the Gospel of John Christopher A. Maronde ................................................................... 23 Rectify or Justify? $ 5 H V S R Q V H W R - / R X L V 0 D U W \ Q · V , Q W H U S U H W D W L R Q of 3 D X O · V 5 L J K W H R X V Q H V V / D Q J X D J H Mark P. Surburg ................................................................................. 45 The Eucharistic Prayer and Justification Roland F. Ziegler ................................................................................. 79 The Reception R I : D O W K H U · V 7 K H R O R J \ L Q W K H : L V F R Q V L Q 6 \ Q R G Mark E. Braun .................................................................................... 101 Righteousness, Mystical Union, and Moral Formation in Christian Worship Gifford A. Grobien ............................................................................ 141 Theological Observer ..................................................................................... 165 * R G · V : R U G 7 K U H H 9 L H Z V 2 Q H % L E O H The Mission of the Church in an Age of Zombies One Nation under God: Thoughts R H J D U G L Q J ´ 3 D W U L R W L F 6 H U Y L F H V µ Book Reviews .................................................................................................. 184 Books Received ............................................................................................... 191 CTQ 77 (2013): 101 ²139 Mark Braun is Professor of Theology at Wisconsin Lutheran College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Reception of Walther ·s Theology in the Wisconsin Synod Mark E. Braun The year 2003 marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Johannes Muehlhaeuser, founder of Grace Lutheran congregation in Milwaukee and chief organizer and first president of the Wisconsin Synod. He had arrived in Rochester, New York, in 1837 and was received into the ministerium of the General Synod, where he served for ten years until relocating at Milwaukee in 1848. On May 26, 1850, in Town Granville, northwest of Milwaukee, Muehlhaeuser and four other Lutheran pastors formed Das Deutsche Evangelium Ministerium von Wisconsin. He served as Synod pres-ident for the next decade and remained pastor at Grace Church on the cor-ner of Broadway and Juneau Avenues until his death in 1867.1 To the best of my knowledge, no periodical, theological journal, news release, celebratory gathering or reverential festschrift of The Lutheran ChurchFMissouri Synod (LCMS) has marked the bicentennial of Muehl-haeuser ·s birth. But no one in the Wisconsin Synod would fault the LCMS for that, because scarcely anyone in the Wisconsin noted that anniversary either. In fact, few Wisconsin Synod members have even heard of Muehl-haeuser. There is no Muehlhaeuser Memorial Lutheran Church in the Wisconsin Synod. There is no legacy of young people joining the national Muehlhaeuser League during their teenage years. There is no enterprising merchandiser offering for sale eight-inch-high statuettes of Johannes Muehlhaeuser, suitable for display on one ·s study desk or attachment to one ·s dashboard. And no Wisconsin Synod pastor would ever ask, concer-ning any theological question, ´What Would Muehlhaeuser Do? µ By contrast, it comes as no surprise that the Wisconsin Synod also observed the 200th anniversary of the birth of C.F.W. Walther,2 nor is it surprising that Wisconsin has praised Walther ·s theology and sought to 1 See Edward C. Fredrich, The Wisconsin Synod Lutherans: A History of the Single Synod, Federation, and Merger (Milwaukee: Northwestern Publishing House, 1992), 4 ²8; 0 D U N ( % U D X Q ´ ) D L W K R I R X U ) D W K H U V µ Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly 74 (Winter 2002): 198 ²218. 2 - R K Q ) % U X J ´ ) R U H Z R U G W R 9 R O X P H : K H U H 7 K H U H , V 1 R / R Y H ' R F W U L Q H Cannot Remain Pure, µ Wisconsin Lutheran Quarterly 108 (Winter 2011): 9. Concordia Theological Quarterly 77 (2013) emulate it. In 1887, Wisconsin ·s Gemeinde-Blatt began a long obituary, ex-tending over two issues, by saying, ´On May 7 of this year a man was called out of this life who in American Lutheranism has had no equal and whose work, greatly blessed by God, will bear more blessed fruit for many years to come as long as this Lutheranism survives. µ On the 100th anni-versary of Walther ·s death, Wisconsin ·s Northwestern Lutheran observed that the obituary had stood up remarkably well. The intervening century had produced no peer to Walther, and ´the prediction that Walther ·s labors would bring blessings in future generations and to us stands val-idated by the hindsight of a hundred years of history. µ3 At certain times, the Wisconsin Synod has even claimed that it, rather than the Missouri Synod, is the true heir of the theology of the old Synodical Conference, andFby extensionFthe true heir of the theology of Walther.4 I. Early Tensions and Contentions Muehlhaeuser ·s training at the Pilgermission in Basel did not include an understanding of the Lutheran Confessions as a clear exposition of scriptural teaching.5 He had not received ´a scholarly kind of theological training µ but was prepared for work in America ´only in a minimal way. µ The Pilgermission ´left its students free to choose affiliation in America either with a Lutheran church body or a United one or even a Reformed one. µ6 Muehlhaeuser ´meant to be a Lutheran, µ wrote Wisconsin historian Joh. P. Koehler, yet his experience in Rochester ´filled him with antipathy µ toward confessional Lutheranism. He ´acknowledged the zeal of Old- 3 6 H H ( G Z D U G &