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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 beichtrede.

Beichtrede

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Veichtrede. Abhandlungen. einer guten Beichtrede. Ma. 11, 345. Beichtreden. L. W. 20, 207. Wis. 85, 62. Der Zweck der Beichtrede iſt die Vorbereitung 20, 1. der Beichtenden auf einen würdigen Genuß des Abendmahls. Es iſt die letzte Gelegenheit, zu rechter Buße und Glauben zu locken und vor unwürdigem Genuß des Abendmahls zu warnen. 2. Der Inhalt der Beichtrede muß daher ſein: a. Geſetz, daß die Beichtenden zur rechten Erkenntnis der Sünde kommen; b. Evangelium, daß ſie dadurch recht zum Glauben gelockt werden — der Hauptteil der Rede. 11, Anm. a. Da die Beichtrede auf das Abendmahl vor⸗ bereiten ſoll, ſo iſt hier der rechte Ort, vom hohen Nutzen desſelben zu reden. 85, Anm. b. Als dritter Teil mag hierzu noch kommen eine Ermahnung zur Heiligung und Beſſerung. 3. Zu hüten hat man ſich jedoch: a. daß man nicht bloß die groben Sünden ſtraft. Die Leute möchten ſonſt denken: Gott Lob, ſo ſchlimm bin ich nicht; b. daß man nicht zu hohe Anforderung ſtellt 1. in Bezug auf das Maß des Glaubens, daß die geängſteten Herzen nicht Mut gewinnen, zuzugrei⸗ fen. Das kleinſte Fünklein Glaube iſt Glaube; 2. in Bezug auf die Reue. David hat ſein Bett Neb. mit Tränen geſchwemmt, andere Heilige nicht. — Auch darf man nicht ſo reden, als ob ſich die Ab⸗— ſolution auf die Reue gründe; c. daß man die Herzenszuſtände nicht bloß be⸗ ſchreibt, ſondern durch die Beichtrede Reue und Glau⸗ ben zu wirken ſucht. 1. Um paſſende Beichtreden halten zu können, muß der Paſtor a. ſeine Beichtkinder recht kennen. b. ſich wohl auf die Rede vorbereiten. Anm. Als Tert zu Beichtreden eignen ſich Stellen. die von Geſetz. Sünde, Buße. Glauben, Evangelium. Abendmahl, Selbſtprüfung handeln.

AI translation · machine

Confessional address (Beichtrede). Treatises. On a good confessional address. Ma. 11, 345. Confessional addresses. L. W. 20, 207. Wis. 85, 62. The purpose of the confessional address is to prepare the penitents for a worthy reception of the Lord's Supper. It is the last opportunity to entice them to true repentance and faith and to warn them against unworthy reception of the Lord's Supper. 2. The content of the confessional address must therefore be: a. Law, that the penitents come to a right knowledge of sin; b. Gospel, that they thereby be rightly drawn to faith — this is the main part of the address. Note a. Since the confessional address is to prepare for the Lord's Supper, this is the proper place to speak of its high benefit. Note b. As a third part there may further be added an exhortation to sanctification and amendment of life. 3. One must, however, guard against: a. punishing only the gross sins. Otherwise people might think: Thank God, I am not that bad; b. setting too high a demand 1. as regards the measure of faith, so that frightened hearts do not lose courage to lay hold of grace. The smallest spark of faith is faith; 2. as regards contrition. David drenched his bed with tears; other saints did not. — Nor may one speak as though absolution were grounded on contrition; c. merely describing states of the heart, instead of seeking through the confessional address to work contrition and faith. 1. In order to be able to give suitable confessional addresses, the pastor must a. know his confessional children well. b. prepare himself well for the address. Note. Suitable as texts for confessional addresses are passages that deal with Law, sin, repentance, faith, Gospel, the Lord's Supper, and self-examination.

  • Ma. 11, 345
  • L. W. 20, 207
  • Wis. 85, 62
  • Ma. 11, 345 margin
  • L. W. 207 margin
  • Wis. 85, 62 margin
  • Ma. 11, 345 margin
  • Ma. 11, 345. 346 margin
  • L. W. 20, 209 margin
  • Ma. 346 margin
  • Ma. 11, 347 margin
  • Wis. 85, 62 margin
  • Wis. 85, 62. 63 margin
  • Wis. 85, 62. 63. 85, 33 margin
  • L. W. 20, 208 margin
  • Cal.. 94, 61 margin
  • Wis. 85, 62 margin
  • L. W. 20. 212 margin
  • Wis. 62.

vol a, printed page 298 · scan: bub_gb_3EAUAAAAYAAJ/n0298

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.