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| Titre : | Theology of the Lutheran Confessions |
| Auteurs : | Edmund Schlink, Auteur ; Paul F. Koehneke, Traducteur ; Herbert J. A. Bouman, Traducteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Philadelphia [USA] : Fortress Press, 1961 |
| Format : | xxix + 353 p. / bibliographie, index |
| Note générale : | Titre original: Theologie der lutherischen Bekenntnisschriften (1948, 3te aufl.) |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | HV/C (Symbole de foi: Confession d'Augsbourg (luthériens)) |
| Résumé : |
The Lutheran Confessions are not merely a summation of Luther s theology, much less that of Melanchthon or of the ' Lutheran" denomination. They are rather the basic teachings of the one holy catholic and apostolic church. They are the Church's witness to the truth, says Dr. Schlink.
These documents of the Reformation are not valid only for the period and the problems which occasioned them. They are rather the normative summary — binding for all time— of the whole of Scripture: a summation of the heart of Scripture, namely, the saving gospel. This means that no treatment of the Confessions from the standpoint of history alone or of the history of dogma alone can actually do justice to them as a confession. Rather, cognizance must first be taken of their universal claim to be for all time the obligatory model for the preaching and teaching of the entire Church. Then a stand must be taken with respect to that claim; but this can only be done in the act of repeating the Confessions' exposition Of Scripture after them, a task which belongs to dogmatics proper. As a necessary preliminary to that task, however, there is another—that of listening to the Confessions themselves, discerning the core of their message, and summarizing in an orderly way rhe totality of their witness. No response is possible to the Confessions' comprehensive claim, unless there be first a clear and simple knowledge of their contents. This, then, is the task undertaken by the author: in the humility of hearing and learning to summarize and reproduce the statements of the Confessions in systematic order, as the doxological witness of the Church (not merely of an individual) to the sum of Scripture (not just to an incidental Exegetical discovery). |
| Note de contenu : |
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Theology of the Confessions as Prolegomena to Dogmatics - 1. Scripture and Confession Inferences for Dogmatics - 2. The Revelation of God the Creator - 3. Law and Gospel—Part One - 4. Law and Gospel—Part Two - 5. Baptism and the Lord’s Supper - 6. The Church - 7. Civil and Ecclesiastical Government - 8. The Last Day - Appendix: Guidelines for Dogmatics - Introduction to the Literature - Index |
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