# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_August 1857_S240
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240   Lutheran-Theological Pastor's Library.

intercession by the departed for those they leave behind (Hiltebrant); concerning the derivation of the origin of Baptism from Judaism; concerning Arndt's writings; concerning Gesenius' catechism, and so forth and so forth. The third volume contains two further appendices, the first of which presents Ludwig Gerhard's doctrinal system of the restitution of all things and the controversies that broke out upon its publication, and the second the so-called Melodic controversies (Adam Bernd — indifferentism). The fourth and fifth volumes contain further expositions and supplements to the first three volumes. Here, among other things, the following is supplied: the history of the dispute over Christ's descent into hell (Aepinus); over the use of the word in abstracto in the doctrine of the communication of the divine attributes to Christ's human nature (Heshusius and Wigand); over ordination (Freder in Pomerania); over usury (the Regensburg theologians); over philosophy (Dan. Hofmann); over the origin of sin (Grawer and Lubinus); over the resurrection of the ungodly by virtue of the merit of Christ (Brothius and Balduin); over Statius' Spiritual Treasury; over the question whether Christ at the time of his death and burial remained a true man (Lütkemann); over Heinr. Müller's expressions concerning the "four dumb church idols"; over the question whether Christ, on account of his human nature, was himself bound to obedience to the law (Haferung); over Herrnhutianism; over the necessity of knowing the time of one's conversion; over the writings of Gerber, and so forth and so forth. This second main part alone comprises a work of over 5500 octavo pages. No work could better serve the purpose of exercising one's senses to discern the difference between error and truth than this one; and though one may not altogether agree with Walch, especially in his mediating judgment of the disputed points of pietism, still he does not mislead even here, since he always states the status controversiae conscientiously and exactly. In the Acta historico-ecclesiastica we find the notice that the whole work of Walch was sent to the Salzburg Lutherans in America, with the addition: "which introduction to the religious controversies they hold to be indispensable in that region, filled as it is with all manner of sects." (XX, 356.)

4. We come now to the fourth series of the book-department for the dogmatic disciplines, namely to that in which the writings pertaining to symbolics belong.

a. The first necessity for a Lutheran pastor here is of course the writings themselves which enjoy symbolical authority in the various communions. As regards, first of all, the symbolical books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, we are in a position to name precisely the newest edition of them as the best and most complete of all that have appeared. It is the following: "Die symbolischen Bücher der evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche, deutsch und lateinisch. Edited by J. Tob. Müller, pastor in Immeldorf in