# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_November 1855_S350
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350 New Literature.

-cellent French translation of Luther's Small and Large Catechism. Part of the proceeds is intended for the Lutheran church in Baden. The booklet may be obtained through the bookshop of S. G. Liesching in Stuttgart, which has taken over its distribution for Germany.

The Definite Synodical Platform. From the "Evangelical Lutheran" we learn that the Olive Branch Synod of Indiana, during its most recent sessions, held lately at Columbus, unanimously adopted that notorious doctrinal basis. This is now the second synod to take this step, while all the other synods that have so far given it consideration have either decisively condemned it (e.g., those of East Pennsylvania and of Virginia) or at least declared it impracticable (as the West Pennsylvania synod).

Luther's Church Postil in the English Language. From the "Lutheran Standard" we learn that Dr. S. G. Henkel now also intends to translate and publish Luther's Church Postil in the English language, and that the Synod of Tennessee has pledged him its support toward this.

New Literature.

Kahnis, The Cause of the Lutheran Church over against the Union. An open letter to Dr. K. J. Nitzsch. Leipzig (Dörffling), 1854. 97 pages, large octavo. 12 Neugroschen.

In a notice of this work (a rejoinder), Ströbel and others write the following:

"Kahnis has demonstrated in the open letter, for even the dullest eye, how the 'union doctrine' is neither Lutheran nor Reformed, but a wholly new religion, with a different formal principle than Holy Scripture, and a different material principle than justification through faith alone. On this latter point the writer of the letter says: 'Can you name me a theologian of the union doctrine who has made justification by faith the fundamental thought of his dogmatic outlook — then name him to me. I know of none... I am prepared to ask a theological faculty which is generally regarded in Germany as a chief representative of Lutheran theology (Erlangen) to decide the question of whether your doctrine of justification agrees with the Lutheran symbol.'" *) — What a fine consensus!"

How poorly the boast that the united church has accomplished such great things for theology must stand, if it must swallow such pills in silence!

*) Kahnis had charged Nitzsch with holding a doctrine of justification (Nitzsch's own) that stands very close to the Tridentine dogma.