# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1860_S59
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New Literature. — Church and Contemporary Notices. 59

...word. Just as little can his systematics be understood as a mere sharpening of the method of earlier dogmaticians; rather, it is a kind different from that one; the earlier dogmaticians followed the empirical kind of systematic treatment, while von H. wants the speculative kind."

New Literature.

Wilhelm Beste (pastor at Wolfenbüttel), Die bedeutendsten Kanzelredner der älteren lutherischen Kirche [The Most Eminent Pulpit-Orators of the Older Lutheran Church]. Vol. 2: Die nachreformatorischen Kanzelredner [The Post-Reformation Pulpit-Orators]. Leipzig, published by G. Mayer, 1858. XX and 380 pages, large octavo.

The first volume of this work was already announced in the June issue of the 1858 volume, p. 188. Now that the second also lies before us, we hasten to give our honored readers notice of this one as well. We must confess that hardly any other work in recent literature has surprised us as pleasantly as this one. As in the first volume, so also in this one, brief biographies and characterizations of each of the Lutheran preachers concerned are given beforehand, and thereupon examples of their sermons are communicated. The work is so arranged that one obtains not only an exceedingly vivid history of Lutheran preaching, but at the same time a practical homiletics in annotated examples, of a kind that could hardly be found more beautifully done. To read the book is a true refreshment of the heart. It should be lacking in no Lutheran pastor's library. It contains so exquisite a treasure of genuinely Lutheran sermons in the greatest variety of manner, yet in full unity of spirit, as will not be found again. We cannot recommend the book urgently enough. Whoever buys it will be grateful to us for having drawn his attention to it. The preachers who appear in this volume are: Johann Gigas, J. Habermann, Hier. Mencel, Jac. Heerbrand, M. Chemnitz, Siegfr. Saccus, Til. Heshusius, Jac. Andreä, Cyr. Spangenberg, Sim. Musäus, Nic. Selneccer, Andr. Pancratius, M. Mirus, Luc. Osiander, Sim. Pauli, Luc. Pollio, Ge. Strigenitz, Ge. Mylius, Aegid. Hunnius, and Polyk. Leyser. The third (last) volume will carry the history of Lutheran homiletics forward to Spener. In the selection of the sermons, care has been taken that, with the inclusion of the third volume, the pericope-sermons alone will suffice to bring out the idea of the entire church year. The outward format is excellent.

Church and Contemporary Notices.

I. America.
The German Kirchenfreund of Philadelphia. With the last issue of the previous volume of this monthly, Dr. Mann has retired from its editorial business.