Required Reading from Northwestern Publishing House

The Complete Timotheus Verinus is still being sold. Pastor Langebartels translated this volume and the one below. This book is called the last one of the period of Lutheran Orthodoxy. The accounts show how divisive Pietism was. NPH and Langebartels both deserve great credit for their work.

I hope this is the same Schmid who published a collection of the Lutheran dogmaticians, once standard reading in WELS and in The ALC. If you want to study Pietism, this would be the first volume to get. If you want a black belt in Pietism, buy both books, about $40 each.

Our favorite Jewish physician was amused by the term Orthodox Lutheran. He said with a smile, "Do you eat kosher?" I said, "No, I read kosher."

If you want to separate the sheep from the goats in the Lutheran church, ask the individual what books are being read on a regular basis. Lutherans will say, besides the Bible, Luther, the Book of Concord, Chemnitz.

The Church and Change leaders never read those books. They always read Sweet, Stetzer, and the rest of the Enthusiasts. One WELS pastor gave Barna's The Frog in the Kettle to a member to read. The theme of that book is - how to change the congregation without anyone noticing it, like boiling a frog slowly, step by step.

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Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant is being sold again by Northwestern Publishing House. I ran into that looking for Liberalism: Its Cause and Cure, which seems to be out of print.

CLP is available free as a PDF download from Lulu.com.