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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.
8 entries under entscheidungd.
1. Latermann. L. W. 18, 262 — 265. 30, 146. Luth. 37, 122. N. 77, 56. 57. Syn. Frei. 81, 71. Konk. 82, 29.
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1. Latermann. L. W. 18, 262–265; 30, 146. Luth. 37, 122. W. 77, 56, 57. Syn. Frei. 81, 71. Konk. 82, 29.
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2. Frank. L. W. 18, 199. W. 77, 72. L. W. 43, 265.
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2. Frank. L. W. 18, 199. W. 77, 72. L. W. 43, 265.
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3. Philippi. Syn. Frei. 81, 65—68.
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3. Philippi. Syn. Frei. 81, 65–68.
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4. Kahnis. L. W. 18, 201. 26, 85. W. 77, 72. Syn. Frei. 81, 64. 65.
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4. Kahnis. L. W. 18, 201; 26, 85. W. 77, 72. Syn. Frei. 81, 64, 65.
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5. Luthardt. Die Tür muß der Menſch ſelbſt auftun. Das Wort ſtellt die Möglichkeit einer Entſcheidung für das Heil dar.
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5. Luthardt. Man must open the door himself. The Word presents the possibility of a decision for salvation.
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6. Hein. Syn. Frei. 81, 66.
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6. Hein. Syn. Frei. 81, 66.
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7. Harms. Luth. 37, 123. S. Die Jowaſynode. Obwohl Jowa zugibt, daß der Menſch in ſich ſelbſt nicht die Kraft hätte, ſich für oder wider das Heil zu entſcheiden, ſondern daß dieſe Entſcheidung ganz und gar vom Geiſt gewirkt und gänzlich das Werk der Gnade iſt (Fritſchel, Un⸗terſcheidungslehren § 4), ſo machen ſie doch die Entſcheidung des Menſchen zum Erklärungsgrund im Geheimnis der Bekehrung. Fritſchel, Unterſch. 53. 54. daß von zwei Menſchen, die Gottes Wort hören, der eine bekehrt wird, der andere nicht, hat ſeinen Grund in der Entſcheidung des Menſchen. Anm. Was Stellhorn in früheren Jahren gegen Jowa geſchrieben ſ. L. W. 28, 531. Luth. 38, 139.
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7. Harms. Luth. 37, 123. 8. The Iowa Synod. Although Iowa concedes that man does not in himself have the power to decide for or against salvation, but that this decision is worked wholly and entirely by the Spirit and is altogether a work of grace (Fritschel, Distinguishing Doctrines § 4), they nevertheless make man's decision the explanatory ground in the mystery of conversion. Fritschel, Distinguishing Doctrines 53, 54: that of two people who hear God's Word, one is converted and the other not, has its ground in man's decision. Note. What Stellhorn wrote in earlier years against Iowa, see L. W. 28, 531. Luth. 38, 139.
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9. Die Ohioſynode bekennt ſich zu Jowa. 3. Widerlegung der Antitheſe. a. Die Lehre, daß Gott die Entſcheidung des Menſchen nur ermöglicht und der Menſch ſich mit den von Gott geſchenkten Kräften ſelbſt entſchei— den kann, 1. ſtreitet gegen die Lehre von der Erbſünde und dem gänzlichen Verderben der menſchlichen Natur. Anm. a. Liegen in einem Menſchen ſchon vor ſeiner Bekehrung von Gott geſchenkte Kräfte, mit denen er ſich entſcheiden kann, ſo wird dem natürlichen Menſchen geiſtliches Leben zugeſchrieben. Anm. b. Dem Menſchen iſt nach dieſer Lehre noch etwas Gutes geblieben. Es fehlen ihm nur die Kräfte, ſich ſo zu entſcheiden, wie er wollte; 2. widerſpricht der Lehre von der Bekehrung, die eine Erweckung vom Tode, eine neue Geburt, Neuſchöpfung iſt. Damit iſt alle Selbſttätigkeit und Mithilfe ausgeſchloſſen. »Anm. Ein Toter ſoll ſich zu ſeiner Lebendigmachung entſcheiden! Angenommen, Lazarus hätte nur die Kräfte empfangen und hätte ſich damit entſcheiden ſollen, ob er lebendig werden wolle oder nicht! 3 widerſpricht dem pbure passite in der Bekehrung. Konk. 609, § 89. 526 §S 18. Sich
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9. The Ohio Synod agrees with Iowa. 3. Refutation of the antithesis. a. The doctrine that God only makes man's decision possible, and that man can decide for himself with the powers granted by God, 1. conflicts with the doctrine of original sin and the total corruption of human nature. Note a. If there already lie in a man, even before his conversion, powers granted by God with which he can decide, then spiritual life is being ascribed to the natural man. Note b. According to this doctrine something good has still remained in man. He only lacks the power to decide as he would wish; 2. contradicts the doctrine of conversion, which is a raising from the dead, a new birth, a new creation. Thereby all self-activity and cooperation is excluded. Note. A dead man is supposed to decide for his own being made alive! Suppose Lazarus had only received the powers and had then had to decide for himself whether he wanted to become alive or not! 3. contradicts the pure passive state in conversion. Konk. 609 § 89; 526 § 18. To...
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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.