John William Baier's
                       _Compendium of Positive Theology_
                          Edited by C. F. W. Walther
                                 Published by:
                  St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1877 


         [Translator's Preface. These are the major loci or topics of        
         John William Baier's _Compendium of Positive Theology_ as ed-
         ited by Dr. C. F. W. Walther. These should be seen as the
         broad outline of Baier-Walther's dogmatics, but please don't
         assume that this is all. Each locus usually includes copious
         explanatory notes and citations from patristics and other
         Lutheran dogmaticians.]


       Part One, Chapter Nine

       On the resurrection of the dead.

       1. That the soul of a human remains living after death, thus also
       the body, which is destroyed through death, rises up again and thus
       turns back to life, is most clear from Scripture; however by
       natural reason it is not possible to know this certainly, but it is
       not allowed to oppose this.

       2. However the resurrection of the dead consists in this, that the
       body, destroyed through death, from matter, in which it was
       constructed, is reproduced and reunited to the soul or, by one word,
       rises and thus becomes one with the soul.

       3. The principal efficient cause of the resurrection is the triune
       God and Christ the God-man.

       4. The impulsive internal cause of the resurrection of the dead in
       general is divine justice and  especially, in respect to the pious,
       rewarding justice, in respect to the impious, punishing justice.

       5. The impulsive external cause in respect to the resurrection of
       the pious is the merit of Christ apprehended by final faith, in
       respect to the resurrection of the impious it is final impenitence.

       6. The subject Which of the resurrection are all dead humans, not
       only the pious and faithful, but also the impious and unfaithful.

       7. The subject by Which is the body itself exactly, which everyone
       had in this life.

       8. The nearer goal of the resurrection of the dead in respect to
       the faithful is the full participation in blessedness; as far as
       the unfaithful it is the completion of damnation. The ultimate goal
       is the glory of the rewarding and punishing divine justice.

       9. The resurrection of the dead is described as a work of the
       triune God and of Christ the God-man, proceeding out of the divine
       rewarding and punishing justice, by which all humans, and indeed to
       the faithful or pious on account of the merits of Christ, received
       by final faith, however to the unfaithful and impious according to
       the number of their own sins, the bodies, which they had in this
       life, receives a reuniting to their soul; the former to the
       fullness of blessedness, the latter to the final participation of
       damnation, both to the glory of God and divine justice.




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