# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1855_S129
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Lutheran-Theological Pastors’ Library. 129

Doctrine and Defense.

Volume I. May 1855. No. 5.

Lutheran-Theological Pastors’ Library.

(Continued.)

In the category of works covering the entire field of theological scholarship, we now include

2. theological encyclopedias and methodologies properly so called. Among the former, we mention here only the following work: Jo. Francisci Buddei Isagoge historico-theologica ad theologiam universam singulasque ejus partes. Lipsiae 1727. The author of this work is the Lutheran theologian J. Franz Budde, as learned as he was godly, who died in 1729 as Professor Primarius at Jena. He worked on this volume of 1,844 quarto pages (in close print) for more than twenty years, and thus left it to the Church as the ripest fruit of his diligence and eminent learning. The book is divided into two parts. The first, which deals with theology in general, discusses: 1. the purpose and goal of theological study; 2. the gifts of nature and grace necessary for a theologian; 3. the means by which the theological habitus practicus is attained, which Buddeus comprises under oratio, meditatio, and tentatio; and 4. finally, the necessary preliminary theological studies and knowledge. The second, specialized part discusses: 1. dogmatic theology, 2. symbolic theology, 3. patristic theology, and 4. moral theology; Chapter 5 then deals with canon law, Chapter 6 with church history, Chapter 7 with polemical theology, and finally Chapter 8 with exegetical theology. — There is no work of this kind, from either earlier or more recent times, that could be placed alongside it. It contains a survey and complete history of all branches of theology (with the sole exception of homiletics) through all the centuries down to the author’s own time, including works produced for the relevant disciplines outside the Lutheran Church as well. The information on literary history given in it is as rich and complete as it is precise and accompanied by conscientious critical assessments. The mediating position that Buddeus otherwise occupied in certain respects between the Halle Pietists and the so-called Orthodox has given the wor-

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