# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_September 1857_S269
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Lutheran-Theological Pastor's Library.   269

...and no, and for both answers the supporting passages in the writings of our own men and of our opponents are precisely cited. Thereupon follows an appendix on the right use and exceedingly great profit of the symbolical writings and of this Isagoge in all the individual theological disciplines; then a catalogue of the writings which have appeared on the various parts of the Book of Concord; and finally a whole series of indexes which, comprising several hundred quarto pages, not a little further and facilitate the use of the work. Whoever is concerned to have a proven counselor in the study of our churchly confessions will find in the Carpzov-Olearius Isagoge more than is afforded him anywhere else — unless a pastor possesses means enough to procure also the larger works which have appeared on the individual books of the Concordia, of which we intend to name the most important when we come to indicate the writings of the second class belonging to a Lutheran-theological pastor's library.

5. The field of dogmatic theology is closed, in the fifth series, by those writings which treat the discipline of ethics or morals.*) For this branch of theological science not only has Dr. Harless without doubt furnished the best among all more recent divines, but he has herein also left behind him everything that had been accomplished before him. The work in question is: "Christliche Ethik. Von Dr. G. C. A. Harless. Fourth, improved and enlarged edition. Stuttgart, at S. G. Liesching, 1849." After the author has by way of introduction developed the task of ethics, set forth its specific peculiarity, and given the ground of the form of presentation chosen, he divides the whole into three parts. First Part: The Good of Salvation: Section I: Human life and its norms of life before and apart from the appearance of Christ in the flesh. Chapter 1. The natural form of human life: a. self-consciousness, b. world-consciousness, c. conscience in its working. Chapter 2. The positive law: a. its existence, essence, and significance; b. its working upon the human consciousness: the knowledge of the law, legal obedience, fear. Section II: The appearance of the Gospel in the history of the human race: 1. its existence, essence, and significance, 2. its working: evangelical faith, evangelical love, evangelical hope. Second Part: The Possession of Salvation. Section I: The entrance of the good of salvation into the spiritual life of the individual (regeneration). Section II: The personal spiritual struggle for the possession of salvation: renewal;

*) Quite rightly Harless writes, justifying the placing of ethics among the dogmatic disciplines: "The discipline of Christian ethics is nothing else than the presentation of the peculiar relation in which the totality of the Christian truths of faith stands to the moral willing and acting of the individual. It is the development of the idea of the Christian life on the ground of revealed truth, and therefore a dogmatic discipline and the second of the historical-ideal disciplines." (Theologische Encyclopädie etc. Nuremberg 1837, p. 32.)