# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_August 1857_S239
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Lutheran-Theological Pastor's Library.   239

the Reformed and the Arminians, which two volumes appeared in the year 1734; the fourth volume gives a specially detailed account of the controversies with the Antitrinitarians, particularly the Socinians, and with the fanatics and enthusiasts; and the fifth, finally, of those with the atheists, naturalists, and indifferentists, with the Greek Church, with the Muhammedans, Jews, and heathen — which last two volumes came to light in the year 1736. The second main part of the work, comprising the last five volumes, treats the theological controversies that have broken out within the Evangelical Lutheran Church. The first volume falls into five chapters. The first chapter treats, by way of introduction and indeed apologetically, of the character of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. The second chapter presents the religious controversies that disturbed our Church after Luther's death down to the Formula of Concord, namely the Crypto-Calvinistic, synergistic, Flacian, Osiandristic, Stancarist, Majoristic, antinomian, adiaphoristic, and interimistic ones. The third chapter gives an account of the controversies that arose over the drafting and adoption of the Formula of Concord. The fourth chapter reports on the theological struggles of the 17th century. Here in particular are described the course of Huberianism (concerning the "universal" election of grace), of the dispute between the Giessen and Tübingen theologians (concerning the presence of God with the creatures and concerning the omnipresence of the God-man in the state of humiliation), of the Helmstedt or syncretistic controversy (Georg Calixt), and finally of the Rathmannian controversies (concerning the power of the Word of God). The fifth chapter contains here first the presentation of the historical course of the pietistic controversies. The second volume then contains, first, a historical-critical presentation of the points of doctrine which were at issue in the pietistic controversies*), and second, the history of the controversies with the chiliasts, indifferentists, and fanatics (Gottfr. Arnold, Petersen, Dippel, Gichel, and others), and finally that of Terminism (concerning the term of grace in this life). The third volume gives in conclusion an account of some particular controversies, among others: concerning the right of princes in ecclesiastical matters; concerning heresy, sorcery, concubinage, the ban (Thomasius); concerning the right of the Sabbath in the New Covenant (J. Sam. Stryk); concerning divorce (Böhmer); concerning polygamy (Willenberg); concerning marriage with the deceased wife's sister (Götze); concerning the proposition: God himself is dead (Dresing); concerning the admission of the impenitent to Communion (Titius); concerning the necessity of absolution for believers (Beerensprung); concerning the essential approach of God to believers (approximatio — J. J. Müller); concerning the distinction between works of the law and good works (in Holstein); concerning

*) Space does not permit us to list here all the points of doctrine which were at issue in the pietistic controversies; with few exceptions, all the questions of the whole Christian doctrine that are practical in the narrower sense belong here.