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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.

1 entry under erkenninisquelle.

Erkenninisquelle

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b. aus der Natur der Vernunft in geiſtlichen Dingen. Unſer Verſtand iſt in geiſtlichen Dingen blin d ſ. Erb⸗ ſünde § 6. 1 Kor. 2, 14: vernimmt nichts. 1. 21. 2, 4. 5. Kol. 2, 8. Darum ſollen wir unſere Vernunft gefangen nehmen. 2 Kor. 10, 5. Ausſprüche von Lu⸗ ther. L. W. 50, 167—-170. Anm. a. Daß die Vernunft von geiſtlichen Dingen nichts verſteht, ſieht man an Humboldt, Göthe, Schiller, Kant, an den Griechen und Römern. Das waren ge— lehrte Leute, aber unwiſſend wie ein Kind in Bezug auf den Weg zum Leben. Anm. b. Das Licht, das uns die Vernunft gebracht hat, iſt zum Teil 1. Irrlicht. Wie oft täuſcht uns unſere Vernunft! 2. Unſinn, z. B. die Seele iſt Gehirnmark. aus Miſt und Kot. Die Welt iſt ewig. Das All iſt Gott:; 3. Geſtändnis, daß man nichts wiſſe. Sokrates, daß wir von Gott gar nichts wiſſen können; c. aus dem Stillſchweigen der Schrift. Nirgends hat ſich Chriſtus und die Apoſtel dieſes Prinzips bedient; d. aus dem Erempel der Frommen, die in Glaubens- ſachen wider die Vernunft glaubten. Abraham. Röm. 4. 18. e. aus dem Exempel derer, welche dem Urteil der Ver⸗ nunft folgten. 2 Kön. 7, 2: Und wenn der Herr Fenſter am Himmel machte. Joh. 3. 4. 9: Nikodemus. Wie kann ein Menſch geboren werden u. ſ. w. 20, 25. Tho⸗ mas . Es ſei denn u. ſ. w. Anm. a. Macht man die Vernunft zum Prinzip, ſo wird man ein Schwärmer und iſt an den common sense verkauft. Anm. b. Mancher Theolog hat 50 Jahre nach der Quelle geiſtlicher Erkenntnis geſucht und ſich ſchließlich an Vernunftpfützen niedergelaſſen. Anm. c. Die Vernunft iſt auch keine ſekundäre Norm. Anm. d. Zu unterſcheiden iſt 1. Vernunft in irdiſchen und in geiſtli⸗ chen Dingen. In irdiſchen Dingen laſſen wir der Vernunft ihr Urteil. Da kannſt du ausrechnen, daß die Kuh größer iſt denn ein Kalb. Luther: 2. Vernunft vor und nach dem Fall. Vor dem Fall hat der Menſch geiſtliche Erkenntnis gehabt und ſeine Vernunft recht gebraucht; 3 usus magisterialis und instrumentalis der Vernunft. Man ſoll zwar mit der Vernunft die Schrift recht auffaſſen: dazu dient Grammatik, Lo⸗ gik u. ſ. w. Der werkzeugliche Gebrauch der Ver⸗ nunft. Nie aber ſoll ſich die Vernunft zum Magiſter oder Richter über die Schrift aufwerfen. Anm. e. Freilich muß man Vernunft haben, um die Schrift leſen zu können, aber man muß die Schrift ge— brauchen, wozu ſie gegeben iſt. Die Hände ſind nicht

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b. from the nature of reason in spiritual things. Our understanding is blind in spiritual things, see Original Sin § 6. 1 Cor. 2:14: perceives nothing. 1:21. 2:4-5. Col. 2:8. Therefore we are to take our reason captive. 2 Cor. 10:5. Sayings of Luther. L. W. 50, 167—170. Note a. That reason understands nothing of spiritual things can be seen in Humboldt, Goethe, Schiller, Kant, and in the Greeks and Romans. These were learned people, yet as ignorant as a child regarding the way to life. Note b. The light that reason has brought us is, in part, 1. a will-o'-the-wisp. How often our reason deceives us! 2. nonsense, for example that the soul is brain-matter, made of dung and dirt. That the world is eternal. That the universe is God; 3. a confession that one knows nothing. Socrates, that we can know nothing at all of God; c. from the silence of Scripture. Nowhere did Christ and the apostles make use of this principle; d. from the example of the godly, who in matters of faith believed against reason. Abraham. Rom. 4:18. e. from the example of those who followed the judgment of reason. 2 Kings 7:2: even if the LORD made windows in heaven. John 3:4, 9: Nicodemus. How can a man be born, and so forth. 20:25. Thomas: Except [I see the nail prints], and so forth. Note a. If one makes reason the principle, one becomes an enthusiast and is sold out to common sense. Note b. Many a theologian has searched fifty years for the source of spiritual knowledge and finally settled down at the puddles of reason. Note c. Reason is also no secondary norm. Note d. A distinction must be made between 1. reason in earthly and in spiritual things. In earthly things we let reason have its judgment. There you can figure out that a cow is bigger than a calf. Luther: 2. reason before and after the fall. Before the fall man had spiritual knowledge and used his reason rightly; 3. the usus magisterialis and instrumentalis [magisterial and instrumental use] of reason. One should indeed use reason to grasp Scripture rightly: for this grammar, logic, and so forth serve. The instrumental use of reason. But reason should never set itself up as master or judge over Scripture. Note e. To be sure, one must have reason in order to be able to read Scripture, but one must use Scripture for what it was given. The hands are not

vol a, printed page 773 · scan: bub_gb_3EAUAAAAYAAJ/n0767

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.