# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_November 1864_S347
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Literary Intelligence. 347

any theologian within our General Synod is a Lutheran? That must be sought in his writings or in his private statements. For in our General Synod one knows no one's doctrinal position through any official act on his part. He may perhaps be a Calvinist or an Arminian, an Augustinian or a Pelagian; he may deny the power of baptism or the right of little children to receive it; he may, in his views on the presence of Christ in the Holy Supper, be a Zwinglian or a Romanist. Where can such a state of affairs lead but to laxity, to inner strife, and to schism?" Yes! Yes! —

Literary Intelligence.

From Dörffling and Franke has just appeared:

Luthardt, Prof. Dr. Christian Ernst, Apologetic Lectures on the Fundamental Truths of Christianity, delivered in the winter of 1864 at Leipzig. Large octavo. x and 262 pp. net 1 Thaler 6 Groschen.

From R. Mühlmann in Halle have appeared, and are obtainable in all bookshops, in Stade from F. Schaumburg, in Verden from Steinhöfel:

The Third Easter Day. A Religious Dialogue by Dr. H. Thiele (court and cathedral preacher at Brunswick). 1863. 95 pp. 12mo. Price 8 Groschen. Of this the Stade Sonntagsblatt writes: "An excellent little book, in which an unbelieving scholar, a Jewish newspaperman, two townsfolk, a "Pietist" (that is, a believing Christian), a professor of theology, and a Catholic converse about the Christian faith. The "Pietist" carries the defense of evangelical truth quite well, but the other characters, too, are sharply and quite true-to-life drawn."

Since July 1st there has appeared in Bayreuth, from C. Giessel, under the title "Bayreuther Sonntagsblatt," a weekly paper intended for edification and instruction. The editing of the Sonntagsblatt has been taken over, with the cooperation of several clergymen, by Mr. Consistorial Councillor Dr. Kraussold in Bayreuth. The price of the paper is 18 Kreuzer per quarter.

From Nolte in Hamburg has just appeared:

Opinion on the Commission's Draft for a Constitution for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the State of Hamburg, by Dr. D. Krabbe, Consistorial Councillor and Professor at Rostock. 1864. 76 pp. This opinion is reviewed by Dr. Münkel as follows: To the manifold sad things we hear coming out of Hamburg is now added a new church constitution as well, so far only in draft, but so wretched that it outdoes anything comparable that Germany has to show. So, one says to oneself, a constitution must look about the way it would in a city where a deacon Krause publicly