Atonement in Lutheran Orthodoxy: Baier-Walther

"C. F. W. Walther selected Johann Wilhelm Baier's Compendium Theologiae Positivae as the basis for the first dogmatics used to prepares pastors for the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod.  Walther edited Baier's Compendium and annotated it with excerpts from Luther and orthodox Lutheran theologians.  Baier-Walther's "On the office of Christ" (Vol. III, Cap. II. Sectio III, De officio Christi) is both an antidote to errors about atonement in Lutheran circles and evidence of the doctrine of the synod....  It is time to remember Baier's and Walther's presentation of the atonement. We present here the first published translation of the Baier-Walther atonement material into English translated by Theodore E. Mayes....  [Jack D.] Kilcrease says in the foreword that Baier's treatment demonstrates the centrality of the gospel for the Lutheran Scholastics. 'Without Christ as the god-man who fulfilled the law on behalf of sinful humanity, the unconditional promise of the gospel would make little sense and justification by faith would be an incoherent doctrine.'"