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Because baptism is necessary for salvation, the Lutheran Church approves and enjoins emergency baptism. The Lutheran symbolical books hark back to medieval canon law to exemplify the principle that a layperson may baptize validly in a life-and-death emergency.
Arthur Carl Piepkorn, “The Lutheran Understanding of Baptism: A Systematic Summary” in The Church: Selected Writings of Arthur Carl Piepkorn, Vol. 1, 274.
With SS. Justin Martyr, Cyprian, Augustine, Leo the Great, Gelasius, John Chrysostom and others, Lutheran theology sees the hypostatic union of the Godhead and the manhood in the incarnation paralleled by the sacramental union of the natural bread and the true natural body of Christ in the appointed administration of the sacrament (FC SD VII 37-38).
Arthur Carl Piepkorn, “Christ Today: His Presence in the Sacraments” in The Church: Selected Writings of Arthur Carl Piepkorn, Volume One, 175.
No Sunday or holyday should go by without at least one celebration of the Holy Eucharist at an hour convenient for the largest number of prospective communicants.
Arthur Carl Piepkorn, “The Life of God in the Life of the Parish” in The Church: Selected Writings of Arthur Carl Piepkorn, Volume One, 132.
The Holy Eucharist is not the only channel of the Holy Spirit, but it is a unique one from which we cannot dispense ourselves. Here, even though not here alone, we receive the strength that we need in order to convert merely making a living into a Christian vocation. Here, even though not here alone, God gives us the encouragement that we need in order to look beyond the shrunken horizons into which we perennially slip.
Arthur Carl Piepkorn, “The One Eucharist for the One World” in The Church: Selected Writings of Arthur Carl Piepkorn, Volume 1, 202.
Besides the necessity of this mutual worship and witness, St. Anna has one other thing to teach us. Christianity is by nature and by divine design a conservative faith, carefully concerned about transmitting unchanged from one generation to another the unalterable Gospel of a Redeemer who died and rose again for all of humanity in every generation.
Arthur Carl Piepkorn, “Light and Glory: Devotional Reflections on the Holy Gospel for February 2″ in The Church: Selected Writings of Arthur Carl Piepkorn, Vol. 1, 216.
In brief, she exemplifies in her behavior the words that she takes on her lips: “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God, my Savior, for He has regarded the low estate of His handmaiden; for behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed” (St. Luke 1:46-48). She means what she sings. Do we?
~Arthur Carl Piepkorn, “Light and Glory: Devotional Reflections on the Holy Gospel for February 2″ in The Church: Selected Writings of Arthur Carl Piepkorn, Vol. 1, 210.
There is no ideology that has not had to yield to Christ.
Arthur Carl Piepkorn, “The One Eucharist for the One World” in The Church: Selected Writings of Arthur Carl Piepkorn, Volume 1, 204.
At most, only believing communicants eat Christ's Flesh and drink His Blood in any sense at all, but even they do so only in a spiritual sense by faith. This became the normative doctrine of the Reformed churches in Switzerland, Germany, France, Holland, and Central Eastern Europe, of the Presbyterian and Congregationalist churches of the British Isles and the colonies, and of the Anglican Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion.
Arthur Carl Piepkorn, “The Lutheran Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Altar, Ecumenically Considered” in The Church: Selected Writings of Arthur Carl Piepkorn, Volume One, 145.
