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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.

3 entries under abgotterei.

Abgoͤtterei

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c. Selbſtliebe, Eigenliebe. d. Liebe zum Geld. Geiz. Eph. 5, 5. Götzendiener. Mammonsdienſt. Matth. 19, 22. e. Liebe zu Menſchen. Affenliebe. Matth. 10, 37. Vater, Mutter, Sohn, Tochter lieber als Gott. Bei⸗ ſpiel: Eli. f. Liebe zu Kleidern, Tieren, Hunden, Vögel. g. Webe zu irdiſchem Wohlleben. Phil. 3, 19: Wel⸗ chen der Bauch ihr Gott iſt.

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c. Self-love, love of self. d. Love of money. Greed. Eph. 5:5. Idolater. Service of Mammon. Matt. 19:22. e. Love of people. Doting, ape-like love. Matt. 10:37. Father, mother, son, daughter loved more than God. Example: Eli. f. Love of clothes, animals, dogs, birds. g. Love of earthly comfort. Phil. 3:19: Whose god is their belly.

  • Brun, 51 margin
  • Brun, 51, 52 margin
  • Ma. 17, 181 margin
  • Ma. 17, 181, 182 margin
  • Min. 83, 59 margin
  • Ma. 4, 90 margin
  • Ma. 4, 90, 91 margin
  • Schmidt, 21 margin
  • Min. 83, 60 margin
  • Schmidt, 18 margin
  • Min. 83, 60 margin
  • Ma. 24, 68 margin
  • Min. 83, 59 margin
  • Schmidt, Liebe. 20, 21.

vol a, printed page 83 · scan: bub_gb_3EAUAAAAYAAJ/n0083

7. Vertrauen

7. Vertrauen. Abgötterei iſt es, wenn man das wahre Gottvertrauen aus den Augen ſetzt (Unglaube, Miß⸗ trauen gegen Gott. Sorge. Zweifel. Verzweiflung. Falſches Gottvertrauen. Vermeſſenheit) und darum Kreaturen mehr vertraut als Gott. Hierher gehört a. Aberglaube. b. Zauberei, Sympathie, Beſprechen, da man ſein Vertrauen auf Dinge ſetzt, denen Gott keine Kraft zu helfen gegeben. d. Sich verlaſſen auf andere Menſchen. Jer. 17, 5. Pſ. 118, 8, 9. 146, 3. 1. Menſchenvergötterung. Heroenkultus. Man erwartet von Menſchen, was man allein von Gott erwarten kann und dankt Menſchen, wofür man Gott danken ſollte. 2. Loge. 3. Autoritätsglaube, der in Lehrſachen blind⸗ lings andern Menſchen folgt. e. Sich verlaſſen auf ſich ſelbſt; Heſ. 28, 3—5. Jer. 9. 23. 1. Auf ſeine Gaben des Geiſtes und Leibes. Spr. 3., 5. 2. Auf ſein Geld. 3. Auf ſeine Arbeit; ſich ſelbſt den Erfolg zu⸗ ſchreiben. Arbeit iſt die Quelle des Reichtums. 4. Auf ſeine Werke und Frömmigkeit. Werk⸗ gerechtigkeit. 5. Auf ſein Gefühl. Gefühlschriſtentum. Abgötterei im Allgemeinen.

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7. Trusting. It is idolatry when one loses sight of true trust in God (unbelief, distrust of God, worry, doubt, despair, false trust in God, presumption) and therefore trusts creatures more than God. Here belong a. Superstition. b. Sorcery, sympathetic magic, incantation, in which one places one's trust in things to which God has given no power to help. d. Relying on other people. Jer. 17:5. Ps. 118:8, 9. 146:3. 1. Deification of man. Hero-worship. One expects from men what one can expect only from God, and thanks men for what one should thank God for. 2. The Lodge. 3. Blind faith in authority, which in matters of doctrine follows other men blindly. e. Relying on oneself; Ezek. 28:3—5. Jer. 9:23. 1. On one's gifts of spirit and body. Prov. 3:5. 2. On one's money. 3. On one's own labor, attributing success to oneself. Labor is the source of wealth. 4. On one's works and piety. Righteousness by works. 5. On one's feelings. Christianity of feeling. Idolatry in general.

  • Spr. 3
  • Spr. 3., 5
  • Spr. 3., 5. 2
  • Brun 69 margin
  • Mich. 1901, 26 margin
  • Min. 83, 66 margin
  • Min. 83, 66, 67 margin
  • Ma. 7, 246 margin
  • Min. 83, 63 margin
  • Ma. 17, 180 margin
  • Schmidt 19 margin
  • R. Pi. 42 margin
  • Lied 441, 2 margin
  • Min. 83, 64 margin
  • Ma. 24, 67 margin
  • Ma. 24, 67. 15, 334 margin
  • Wis. 97, 22 margin
  • Mez15 margin
  • Min. 83, 65 margin
  • Can. 94, 21 margin
  • Min. 83, 49 margin
  • Min. 83. 63 margin
  • Ma. 24 margin
  • Ma. 24., 67 margin
  • Schmidt 19 margin
  • Mezger 15 margin
  • Pi. 41 margin
  • Min. 83, 63 margin
  • Min. 83, 63, 59 margin
  • Süd. 1903, 53 margin
  • Ma. 17, 180 margin
  • Ma. 17, 180, 181 margin
  • Min. 83, 67 margin
  • Min. 83, 67, 68 margin
  • Ma. 17, 184 margin
  • Ma. 17, 184, 185 margin
  • R. Pi. 45 margin
  • Wis. 97, 25 margin

vol a, printed page 83 · scan: bub_gb_3EAUAAAAYAAJ/n0083

8. —

8. Abgötterei hat ihren Urſprung g9. Vom Teufel, der die Menſchen, ſelbſt Chriſtum, Matth. 4, 9. dazu verführen will. Anm. Was der Götzendiener tut, tut er 1. auf Teu⸗ ſels Geheiß. 2. Im Götzen betet er den Teufel an. 3. Damit offenbart er die Zugehörigkeit zu des Teufels Reich, erklärt damit: Der Teufel iſt mein Herr.

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8. Idolatry has its origin a. From the devil, who wants to seduce men, even Christ himself, Matt. 4:9, into it. Note. What the idolater does, he does 1. at the devil's bidding. 2. In the idol he worships the devil. 3. By this he reveals his belonging to the devil's kingdom, declaring thereby: The devil is my lord.

  • Mich. 1901, 23—25 margin

vol a, printed page 83 · scan: bub_gb_3EAUAAAAYAAJ/n0083

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.