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| Martin Chemnitz was the senior editor of the Book of Concord. Another editor was P. Leyser, who rebuked Samuel Huber for his early UOJ heresy. Leyser also wrote the biography of Chemnitz. |
This post has all the free PDF links.
This link is where to order printed copies of the books.
I was providing a link for Moliners to read the reunion book when another webmaster said Word documents were not useful because of the many versions. I used Office 2010 (which I got legally for $10) and she had Office 2003. PDFs are the best because they are all-purpose. Lulu creates them, so all I had to do was put them in the same place and make them easy to download. I used Dropbox's public folder for that, which makes it easy for people all over the world and also provides an additional backup for years of work. Contact me if you want Dropbox, which is the great piece of software since Civ IV.
I noticed on Steadfast Enthusiasts that they cannot argue ideas. When they are not using personal attacks, their favorite method, and acting hysterical over being challenged, they show no knowledge of the subject matter. They repeat their talking points and call it a day.
The set of links on the publications page allows them to study Lutheran doctrine for free and to compare their Steadfast and LaughQuest Enthusiasm with the actual teaching of the Lutheran Reformation.
A Facebook event last night prompted me to put together all the links. One FB friend copied one of my favorite quotations from Chemnitz, about Holy Communion. Several of us got into a discussion about using Luther, Chemnitz, Gerhard, and other greats in the bulletin and newsletter. Lutherans have raged against me for doing that, both in WELS, in the CLC (sic), and now. I said I could provide sources for them, and they were interested.
A PDF is not so good for copying quotations, but I have several alternatives. One is to give someone a hand-crafted file, a service I have provided for 20 years, such as the times I gave essay writers 200 quotations at a time for their papers. Another is to provide a Word file of the entire book.
As I mentioned before, my main interest is to get people past the Lutheran-Talmud--the layer upon layer of recent synodical commentary--and have them read Luther, the Book of Concord, and the great theologians of that era. Chemnitz is also a great guide to the Patristic theologians, often neglected by the Waltherian navel-gazers - and far superior to the Kidnapper's eructations.
The links are useful for people all over the world. Nothing is quite so painful as buying a book from America and having it shipped overseas. The costs are jacked up by currency exchange and VAT tax charges.
A look at the map on the Martin Chemnitz Press and Bethany blogs will show that people all over the world use those blogs all the time. Both blogs have the same set of links to the books now. Those people can download all the books and save them on their computers. I know missionaries are looking at ways to communicate the Gospel and study while covering vast distances. The links are an easy, free service to use.
I would love to see a similar list of publications (free, of course) from such MDiv experts as Paul McCain, Tim Glende, Jay Webber, and the anonymouse tribe - those rodents who scurry around the Net leaving their precious little nameless droppings. Then we could compare concepts.
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| Kent Hunter, DMin Fuller, has been the guiding light for "conservative" Lutherans for decades. UOJ and Church Growth go together like Universalism and Unitarianism. Ask David Valleskey, WELS Church Growth guru. |
