# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1856_S51
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51 Excerpts as Contributions to Pastoral Casuistry.

...nature and the peculiar doctrines of the same; b. of the internal controversies of the Roman Church; c. of the general grounds of the papists against the Lutheran religion, together with their refutation. 4. Of the religious controversies pending between our Church and the Reformed Church: a. of the origin, growth, and fortunes of the Reformed religion, as well as of the nature and peculiar doctrines of the same; b. of the internal controversies of the Reformed Church; c. of the often-proposed and sought-after union of the Evangelical-Lutherans and the Reformed. 5. Of the religious controversies with the Antitrinitarians and Socinians. 6. Of the religious controversies with the enthusiasts and fanatics, especially with the Anabaptists, Quakers, Inspired, and the like. 7. Of the religious controversies with the atheists, naturalists, and indifferentists. 8. Of the religious controversies with the Oriental Church, especially the Greek and Russian. 9. Of the religious controversies with the Mohammedans, present-day Jews, and heathen. — If this overview alone shows how substantial the book (of 743 octavo pages) is, then still more should the name of a Johann Georg Walch* vouch for it — the editor of Luther's writings (a man of admirable learning, marked by a rare knowledge of history joined with an equally rare clarity, sobriety, and impartiality of judgment, and by a spiritual perception gained through deep, inward Christian experience). At the close of this section we shall return once more to Walch and take note of a still greater polemical work, comprising ten volumes, which also describes the doctrinal controversies that have arisen within the Lutheran Church itself.
(To be continued.)

Excerpts as Contributions to Pastoral Casuistry.

On Forbidden Marriages.

The excerpt following below we take from the following work: Dr. Christian August Crusius, A Short Compendium of Moral Theology. Leipzig, 1778. The author of this work was born on June 10, 1715, at Leuna near Merseburg, and died at Leipzig as canon, first professor of theology, and senior of the theological faculty there, in the year 1776. However vexing to the more recent philosophers this man's piety — shining forth from all his works — and the fidelity with which

* He belongs to the Jena school, standing midway between the so-called Pietists and the so-called Orthodox, which had its roots in a Gerhard and a Musäus. He was Buddeus's son-in-law.