# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juli 1858_S209
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Lutheran-Theological Pastors' Library. 209

...Reformed, Russian, papal, and Anabaptist agendas, and finally,
thirdly, a survey of the writings on church orders and agendas. To
those who wish to inform themselves more precisely about the
relationship of the various agendas to one another in the most
important parts of the liturgy, we recommend the following work by
Pastor Löhe: "Sammlung liturgischer Formulare der evangelisch⸗lu-
therischen Kirche. Erstes Heft. Taufe, Katechismusübung und
Confirmation, Nördlingen bei Beck, 1839." (4to, 7½ sheets. Price 24
kreuzer.) It arose from a comparison of 40 old church orders. "Zweites
Heft. Beichte. Ebendaselbst 1842." (42 pages, in quarto.) "Drittes
Heft. Ordnung der Communio oder der evangelischen Messe. Ebendaselbst
1842." (68 pages in quarto, together with two comparative tables.) It
is true that in these collections already lie the seeds of the
tendency which led Löhe as far as drafting a liturgy for a so-called
apostolic visitation of the sick with anointing; nonetheless, these
collections, made on the basis of the most comprehensive studies,
together with their introductions, notes, and comparative tables,
provide an insight, as no other work of this kind does, into what has
been accomplished within the Lutheran church in the field of
liturgics.*) To a pastor who is in a position to spend somewhat more
on completing his library than is mostly the case, and who wishes to
learn the historical genesis of the Lutheran ceremonies, we recommend
the following larger work: "Rituale ecclesiasticum Auctore Caspare
Calvoer. Opus historico-didascalico-paedeuticum, Jenae, 1705." The
author of this work (born 1650 at Hildesheim, in 1677 deacon and later
superintendent at Cellerfeld, died as pastor at Clausthal and general
superintendent of the principality of Grubenhagen in the year 1725)
was a remarkable man. Cherishing thoughts of union, inasmuch as he
regarded the Reformed Church merely as a schismatic one, with which a
certain kind of fellowship — though not fellowship of the pulpit —
might well be maintained, he nevertheless contended earnestly against
Pietism and separatism. His learning was great. Besides many other
learned writings, this is testified to also by his "Rituale
ecclesiasticum," which even V. E. Löscher — who otherwise takes a
decided stand against Calvör — cannot help but praise as an excellent
work in his so-called Unschuldige Nachrichten (year 1704, pp. 283,
417). It falls into two parts,

*) We must, indeed, confess that we have remained unacquainted with
the writing of the late Höfling: "Von der Compositien der christlichen
Gemeindegottesdienste oder von den zusammengesetzten Acten der
Communion. Erlangen, 1857." But the otherwise very instructive little
work: "Vom Evangelisch⸗Lutherischen Hauptgottesdienst. Von J. Fr.
Wucherer. Nördlingen bei Beck, 1846" (XII and 76 pages, in duodecimo),
also contains a defense of Löhe's agenda, which we cannot endorse
throughout.