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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.
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 bilder.
Bilder. Abhandlungen. Bildnis, noch irgend ein Gleichnis machen. Luth. 5. 163. nicht wider Gottes Wort? Luth. 49. 33.
AI translation · machine
Pictures. Treatises. "Thou shalt not make thee a graven image, nor any likeness." Luth. 5. 163. Is it not against God's Word? Luth. 49. 33.
vol a, printed page 436 · scan: bub_gb_3EAUAAAAYAAJ/n0436
1. Bilder und Schnitzwerke zum Schmuck der Kirche aufſtellen, iſt ein freies Mittelding. Anm. a. Nur das Anbeten und Verehren derſelben iſt verboten. Anm. b. Wir brauchen die Bilder, weil ſie zur An— dacht reizen und weil wir unſere chriſtliche Freiheit be⸗— wahren wollen. Antith. a. Katholiken. Sie ſtellen Bilder zur Verehrung auf. Abgötterei. b. Reformierte. Dieſelben verwerfen Bilder in Kir— chen. Bilderſtürmer. Anm. a. Sie berufen ſich auf 2 Moſ. 20, 45: Du ſollit dir kein Bildnis machen. — Aber es ſteht dabei: bete ſie nicht an. 3 Moſ. 26, 1. Anm. b. Aus dieſen Worten 2 Moſ. 20, 45 machen ſie Ein beſonderes Gebot. Das 2. Gebot. Anm. c. Dieſe Worte hat Luther in den Geboten ausgelaſſen, weil ſie dem Sinn nach ſchon im 1. Gebot ent— halten ſind. Anm. d. Warum hat Gott den Juden ein ſo ſtrenges Bilderverbot gegeben? — Weil ſie zur Abgötterei beſon— ders geneigt waren um der umwohnenden Heidenvölker willen. Einwand. Auf alle Fälle ſei es verboten, Gott ab zubilden. — Wir verwerfen auch ſolche Bilder nicht, die Gott darſtellen, wie er ſich uns ſelbſt geoffenbaret hat. Anm. e. Gute religiöſe Bilder ſoll man verbreiten. 2. Unſittliche Bilder a. wurden ſchon in alten Zeiten an die Wände gemaln. Heſ. 23, 14—16: b. ſind heute überall verbreitet. Theaterbilder. Bil derautomaten. Luth. 63, 248. c. richten viel Argernis an; d. ſollten weder in Chriſtenhäuſern noch auf öfſent lichen Plätzen geduldet werden. Wir verbieten verfälſchte Lebeusmittel und achten auf den Handel mit Gift. warum ſollten wir nicht achten auf die Nahrungsmittel des Gei ſtes.
AI translation · machine
1. Setting up pictures and carvings for the adornment of the church is a matter of free choice. Note a. Only the adoration and veneration of them is forbidden. Note b. We need pictures because they stir devotion and because we want to preserve our Christian liberty. Antithesis a. Catholics. They set up pictures for veneration. Idolatry. b. Reformed. They reject pictures in churches. Iconoclasts. Note a. They appeal to Exod. 20:4[5]: "Thou shalt not make thee any graven image." — But it also says: do not worship them. Lev. 26:1. Note b. From these words, Exod. 20:4[5], they make a separate commandment: the Second Commandment. Note c. Luther omitted these words from the Commandments because in meaning they are already contained in the First Commandment. Note d. Why did God give the Jews such a strict prohibition of images? — Because they were especially inclined to idolatry on account of the surrounding heathen nations. Objection. In any case it is forbidden to depict God. — We too do not reject such pictures as portray God as he has revealed himself to us. Note e. Good religious pictures should be circulated. 2. Immoral pictures a. were already painted on walls in ancient times. Ezek. 23:14—16. b. are widespread everywhere today. Theater pictures. Picture-vending machines. Luth. 63, 248. c. cause much offense; d. should be tolerated neither in Christian homes nor in public places. We forbid adulterated foodstuffs and watch over the trade in poison — why should we not watch over the food of the spirit?
vol a, printed page 436 · scan: bub_gb_3EAUAAAAYAAJ/n0436
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.