# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1861_S151
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tians compels him afterward to the flatly contradictory admission: "every Christian has the divine power and capacity to forgive sin." — Likewise Kraussold shows so clearly that the power of the keys is rooted neither in the Roman sacrifice of the Mass nor in a special priestly consecration, but depends solely upon the Word — and yet he does not arrive at the conclusion: consequently, since the Word is in principle laid in the mouth of every Christian, with the Word there is also all the might and power of the keys. Unless it were the case that the power of the Word itself depended on whether it was spoken from the mouth of a rite vocatus or not. — Finally I should like to call attention to how closely the views of the ministry are bound up with those of the church. For Kraussold the church is not the assembly of the saints as such, but the organism constituted out of congregation and office. Therefore I can only regard it as a contradiction when a man will confess with Luther that the church is in principle the assembly of the saints, and yet will not with him attribute the keys to this church in the same way as the promise of the Gospel belongs to it, and to it alone, certainly and without mediation; but instead assigns the keys only to the sphere of the visible organism of the church, of the office.

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Literary Intelligence.

Die Dogmatik der ev. reformirten Kirche [The Dogmatics of the Evangelical Reformed Church]. Presented by Dr. H. Heppe, Professor of Theology at Marburg. Elberfeld. R. L. Friedrichs. 1861. 33 sheets, large octavo. 1 Thaler 15 Groschen. "From the many already existing dogmatics by Reformed theologians the present one is distinguished in this: that it presents not the personal doctrine of faith of the author, but simply the whole doctrinal system of the Reformed church. What Hase accomplished in his Hutterus redivivus for the Lutheran church, Heppe here aims at for the Reformed church. The presentation is a purely objective one without any admixture of polemics."

Shortly to appear: Das Leben der Altväter der lutherischen Kirche [The Lives of the Fathers of the Lutheran Church]. Related from the sources for Christian readers generally. Published with the collaboration of several hands by Lic. M. Meurer. P. Contents: Vol. 1: Luther. Vol. 2: Melanchthon and the Wittenbergers. (Melanchthon. Bugenhagen. Jonas. Cruciger.) Vol. 3: Older Friends and Fellow Combatants (Spalatin. Lange. Link. Hausmann.) Vols. 4 and 5: Men of the Reformation from All Lands. (Myconius. Speratus. Brenz. H. von Zütphen. George of Anhalt. Urbanus Rhegius. John Hus. Caspar Aquila. Joh. Probst. Forster.) Vol. 6: Pupils. (Mathesius. Dietrich. Eber. Weller. Trotzendorf.) Vol. 7: Those Born After. (Mörlin. J. Andreae. Musculus. Selnecker. Chemnitz.) Vol. 8: Princes. (Frederick the Wise. John the Constant. Wolfgang of Anhalt. George of Brandenburg. Christopher of