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Eckhardt's Homiletisches Reallexikon, 1907–1917

A cumulative subject index to seven Missouri Synod periodicals, compiled by E. (Ernest) Eckhardt (1868–1939) and printed at St. Louis between 1907 and 1917. Under each headword it sets numbered theses, and beside each thesis the places where the periodicals had treated it — by volume and page, running twenty years past the last of Der Lutheraner's own registers. Where the archive holds the volume a citation names, the citation below is a link to that page.

The alphabetical run is here in full, Abendmahl through Wunder, assembled from five scans: two archive.org items, a pair from Google Books that closes what had looked like a gap in the middle of the alphabet, and the archive.org tail. With it are the Beichtreden appendix, Eckhardt's own printed Register, and the separate 1913 treatise Die Schule, bound in with the later volumes and kept here under its own heading.

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Headwords are spelled as Eckhardt set them, so the filter folds the differences that would otherwise hide them — Sklaverei finds Sclaverei, Konkordienformel finds Concordienformel. What you see listed is always the printed spelling.

4,478 entries under 828 headwords, carrying 129,203 citations and 2,331 fragments too damaged to read · built 2026-09-16. uncorrected OCR

The German below is machine transcription of the 1907–1917 print (tesseract, Fraktur model) and has not been proof-read against the page. Read it as a finding aid: the citations are what it is for, and a garbled word is a defect of our OCR, not of Eckhardt.

2 entries under berenntnisschriften.

Berenntnisſchriften

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bdie Lebren bi“ Firheeut- üher⸗ ſchiedeen harl. Manche Lehren ſeien damals noch nicht ſo weit entwickelt geweſen, daß die Kirche endgiltig darüber entſchieden habe. Anm. a. Wer die aus Gottes Wort erkannte Wahr⸗ heit erſt der Entſcheidung der Kirche unterwirft, glaubt nicht an Gottes Wort, ſondern an die Kirche. Dadurch wird ö 1. die Kirche zur Erkenntnisquelle erhoben, 2. das Schriftwort allein für ungenügend zu klarer Erkenntnis erklärt. Anm. b. Warum hat die Kirche bisher noch nicht entſchieden, da doch Veranlaſſung und Not da war? Anm. e. Eine Kirche mit entſcheidender Gewalt exi⸗ ſtiert nicht. Anm. d. Eine Lehre wird nicht erſt durch iymboliſche Fixierung ein Dogma. Anm. e. Sollten bloß die Lehrartikel Geltung haben, über die die Kirche geſprochen hat, dann wäre die erſte chriſtliche Kirche, die bloß das apoſtoliſche Symbolum hatte, arm an Glaubensartikeln geweſen. Anm. f. Die Lehre der Bibel, ſie mag ſymboliſch firiert ſein oder nicht, iſt immer kirchlich. Einwand. Es ſei genügend, wenn man das glaubt, was ſymboliſch nun feſtgeſtellt wird. — Ja, wenn man daneben nicht manches andere glaubt, was das Mit⸗ bekenntnis wieder aufhebt. i. Man muß die Bekenntniſſe hiſtoriſch auffaſſen. Das ſoll heißen: 1. Es iſt vieles darin enthalten, was man heute nicht mehr annehmen kann, was aber inſofern wahr iſt, als man damals ſo geglaubt hat. 2. Keine Irrtümer werden in den Bekenntniſſen verworfen, die erſt nach ihrer Verfaſſung aufge— kommen ſind. So wurde zwar der damalige, nicht aber der heutige Chiliasmus verworfen. Auf dieſen Grund hin könnte man auch Dagegen 1. die Schrift um ihr Anſehen bringen. 2. Wenn auch die früheren Ketzer tot ſind, die gegen ſie aufgeſtellte Wahrheit bleibt heute noch beſtehen.

AI translation · machine

h. [This line is badly damaged in the original print and largely illegible.] ...the doctrines [on which the church has not yet finally decided]. Some doctrines, it is said, had at that time not yet developed far enough for the church to have reached a final decision on them. Note a. Whoever first subjects the truth known from God's Word to the decision of the church does not believe in God's Word, but in the church. By this, 1. the church is raised to the status of a source of knowledge, 2. Scripture alone is declared insufficient for clear knowledge. Note b. Why has the church not yet decided, when there was both occasion and need? Note c. A church with decisive authority does not exist. Note d. A doctrine does not first become a dogma through being symbolically fixed. Note e. If only those articles of doctrine that the church has spoken on were to have validity, then the early Christian church, which had only the Apostles' Creed, would have been poor in articles of faith. Note f. The doctrine of the Bible, whether it is symbolically fixed or not, is always doctrine of the church. Objection. It is said to be enough if one believes what is now symbolically established. — Yes, provided one does not also believe alongside it various other things that the accompanying confession would again cancel out. i. One must understand the confessions historically. This is meant to say: 1. Much is contained in them that one can no longer accept today, but which is true insofar as that is what people believed at that time. 2. No errors are condemned in the confessions except those that arose only after they were composed. Thus the chiliasm of that time was indeed condemned, but not today's chiliasm. Against this: 1. On this same ground one could also rob Scripture of its authority. 2. Even though the earlier heretics are dead, the truth set up against them still stands today.

  • L. W 19, 62 margin
  • L. W 19, 62. 67 margin
  • L. W 19, 62. 67. 14, 132 margin
  • L. W 19, 62. 67. 14, 132. 430 margin
  • W. 1901, 53 margin
  • Neb. 89, 31 margin
  • Neb. 89, 31. 32 margin
  • L. W. 19, 66 margin
  • Syn. 79, 15 margin
  • W. 1901, 53 margin
  • W. 1901, 53. 54 margin
  • L. W. 14, 191 margin
  • L. W. 14, 192 margin
  • L. W. 14, 201 margin
  • L. W. 14, 206 margin
  • L. W. 14, 208 margin
  • L. W. 14, 208. 210 margin
  • L. W. 14, 210 margin
  • Syn. 79, 14 margin
  • O. 71, 43 margin
  • Allg. 63, 40 margin
  • Trak. 9 margin
  • Luth. 23. 78 margin
  • Luth. 23. 78. 186 margin
  • Jo. 79, 15 margin
  • Trak. 17 margin
  • O. 71, 44 margin
  • O. 71, 46 margin
  • Große 23 margin
  • Can. 94, 73 margin
  • Can. 94, 73. 74 margin

vol a, printed page 343 · scan: bub_gb_3EAUAAAAYAAJ/n0343

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3. Die lutheriſchen Bekenntnniſſe ſollen gelten „bis an der Welt Ende“. Luther. Anm. Will man ein Bekenntnis recht verſtehen, ſo bilft freilich das Studium der Geſchichte und der Ver— hältniſſe, unter denen ſie entſtanden ſind, viel dazu. Die Geſchichte der Symbole beleuchtet die in denſelben vorgetragene Lehre. k. Man verpflichtet ſich nur auf den Geiſt, nicht auf den Buchſtaben der Symbole. l. Man unterſchreibe zwar die Bekenntniſſe, lege ſie aber nach der Schrift aus.

AI translation · machine

3. The Lutheran confessions are to remain valid "until the end of the world." Luther. Note. If one wishes to understand a confession rightly, the study of the history and the circumstances under which it arose is indeed of great help. The history of the symbols illuminates the doctrine presented in them. k. One binds oneself only to the spirit, not to the letter, of the symbols. l. One should indeed sign the confessions, but interpret them according to Scripture.

vol a, printed page 343 · scan: bub_gb_3EAUAAAAYAAJ/n0343

A citation shown like this names a volume the archive does not hold — most of Der Lutheraner and Lehre und Wehre past Jahrgang 10, and the five other series Eckhardt indexes, none of which are here. Those references are printed as Eckhardt set them rather than hidden: the reference is the useful thing even when we cannot serve the page. Page images of the Reallexikon itself are not served in this build; the scan note under each entry gives the item and image index in the archive.org copy.