Thanks To Two Readers - The Dietrich Catechism, 1902, in English

Arthur Repp, Senior, p. 200 and note-
The Dietrich catechism was used by Missouri.
Johann Conrad Dietrich wrote it in 1613, and it was epitomized in 1627.
Missouri issued a revision of the epitome in 1858.
Compare the Dresden Catechism.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5009355/Luthers_Catechism_ed_by_JC_Dietrich_1902_eng.pdf

J C. Dietrich Catechism, 1902, in English


From: "theronlbrady" <theronlbrady@...>
To: <LutheranBookReview@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, 03. February 2006 03:24
Subject: [LutheranBookReview] Dietrich Small Catechism question


I just bought a J. C. Dietrich edition of Dr. the Small Catechism;
explained in questions and answers by Dr. J. C. Dietrich at $45.00.

Concordia Publishing House - 1891 - Abridged Edition Half-cloth &
Boards 130pp. Maroon cloth spine with rubbed marbled boards; tight
binding; clean text.

Translated from the German ed. published by the Evangelical Lutheran
Synod of Missouri, Ohio, etc.; authorized by the Evangelical Lutheran
Synodical Conference of North America. By J.C. Dietrich, with
additions from the Dresden Catechism and the Symbolical Books of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church, and with additional proof passages from
the Holy Scriptures.

Question: is there a 'non-abridged English edition of this?


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Yes there is.

From the title page:

Dr. Martin Luther's Small Catechism Explained in Questions and Answers

by Dr. J. C. Dietrich

with additions from the Dresden Catechism and the Symbolical Books of
the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and with additional prrof passages from
the Holy Scriptures.

Together with two Appendixes
[NOTE: These are (I) Of the Holy Scriptures and (II) Of the Symbolical
Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church]

For Schools and Families

Translated from the German edition published by the Evangelical Lutheran
Synod of Missouri, Ohio &c.

St. Loius, Mo.:
Concordia Publishing House
1902
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It is 220 pages, about 6" x 4", reddish-brown cloth binding

BTW, $45 seems high. Mine is in excellent, nearly-new condition only
some slight rubbing on the boards), and I think I paid less than $20 for
this, sometime in the last ten tears. (Working solely from memory--I
usually write the acquisition date and price in the inner margin of the
title page, but I seem to have neglected to do so for this volume.)

Jeffrey M. Keuning
keuning@{REMOVETHIS}pleez.net

Here is the German version of Johann Conrad Dietrich - Martin Luther's Small Catechism.

From California - Something To Read Carefully

One of my favorite readers, nicknamed California, has always been a superb researcher. As I recall her grandparents put this article in their Bible so they could pray for their country. Many decades later we can see how prophetic this speaker from the NRA (not the National Rifle Association) was.

Educating the youth is always the aim. WELS is quite Stalinistic in doing a thorough brain-washing through its schools. Conformity is the only agenda, because the robotic state works well whenever the cult wants to change its rules, fads, and condemnations.

Pastor Nathan Bickel - Time of Grace

Pool levitation is easy after watching Time of Grace.

Ichabod - Re: Your article:

http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2012/07/truth-faith-seems-quenched-on-every.html

"Truth Faith Seems Quenched on Every Hand. Men Suffer Not Thy Word To Stand. Dark Times Have O'ertaken:"

http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2012/07/truth-faith-seems-quenched-on-every.html

Your pic of the Rev. Mark Jeske reminded me of his weekly "Time of Grace" online presentation. So, I accessed it on my computer and found his latest weekly message of July 27, 2012. It is entitled:  "The ears of the deaf are open." Under the video box, were the written words:

"God works in mysterious and wondrous ways. As sinful human beings, we are not perfect and often forget that even though we have hardships God delivers us through it all."

No, - not so! I find that aforementioned statement to be very misleading [false] - God does not deliver the ungodly "through it all." [Psalm 1] The Scripture says that: 

"Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all." – [Psalm 34:19 – KJV]

Scripture does not lump the righteous and the unrighteous together to receive the Lord’s blessing.

As pleasantly communicative and gifted as Rev. Jeske is, that, which I've pointed out, violates a basic rule of public communication - especially as it pertains to proclaiming God's Word. To be a responsible public speaker and faithful to God's Word, one must differentiate in public speaking. It is irresponsible to lump all the listeners into one group; assuming that they are godly (righteous / Christians). When one has an audience which is public, such as Rev. Mark Jeske, one ought to be responsible and careful not to give the non-Christian [unbeliever] the impression that he or she is so favored by the Heavenly Father:

"God is not your heavenly father unless you are one of His children:"

http://www.thechristianmessage.org/2010/10/god-is-not-your-heavenly-father-unless.html

Common to Christian preachers, (and Pastor Mark Jeske is not the exception), is to include the non-Christian (unbelieving) audience into the Christian audience fold. Still fresh on my mind is the Christmas Eve children's service message I heard at Bethel Lutheran. The pastor missed the opportunity of clearly proclaiming the Gospel to the mixed audience. What more of a mixed audience can one have at a children's Christmas program, other than that of a Christian burial (funeral) service where relatives and family are attending who aren't all church members and Christians?

As I was mentioning, a wonderful opportunity was missed because the pastor omitted the complete Gospel message. Although he did make reference in passing to God's Law, he did not mention "sin" or being "sinful. His re-occurring theme to the mixed audience was that Christ coming in Bethlehem 2000 years ago was "for you." But, the pastor failed to connect the dots, illustrating the full reason why Christ came.

In short, he did not spell out, and make it clear, what Christ the Savior saves the individual soul from. Nothing was mentioned about the fatal eternal results of sin - hell (eternal damnation). In summary (I believe) he did not go "full circle." He left the impression that all that was important for the mixed audience was to accept the principle that Christ came, "for you" [them] - without explaining the crucial "why" and spiritual and eternal implications.

Seminary never did teach this basic principle of public speaking. I learned it from my first two public speaking courses in college. [And, I continue to learn it]:

"A speaker is not only responsible for what he says; he is also responsible for the impression he leaves."

Hence, with this aforementioned Christmas message, (I believe) the pastor left the impression to the mixed crowd that Christ came "for them" without conveying "full circle" in his message what Christ came to completely save them [us] from.  And, I don't recall the preacher speaking about faith and belief; but only conveying the universal objective justification message of God's forgiveness without personal faith [belief] as Luther taught it.

Finally, I only hope and pray that with the rich Christian heritage with which Lutherans have been blessed, - that many pastors and others would figure out how to speak to the mixed audience crowd. After all, didn't Luther distinguish between the visible and invisible church? Didn't he correctly point out that even in the visible church there are both believers and unbelievers?

Nathan M. Bickel - Bay City, Michigan

www.thechristianmessage.org

www.moralmatters.org

New Bible translation has screenplay format - Yahoo! News

New Bible translation has screenplay format - Yahoo! News:


NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A new Bible translation tackles the challenge of turning ancient Greek and Hebrew texts into modern American English and then adds a twist: It's written like a screenplay.
Take the passage from Genesis in which God gets angry at Adam for eating the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil:

"Adam (pointing at the woman): It was she! The woman You gave me as a companion put the fruit in my hands, and I ate it.

"God (to the woman): What have you done?

"Eve: It was the serpent! He tricked me, and I ate."

Later, Eve bears her first son, Cain.

"Eve (excited): Look, I have created a new human, a male child, with the help of the Eternal."
Even people who have never read the Bible could probably guess that other translations don't say Adam pointed his finger at Eve when he blamed her for his disobedience. Neither do other Bibles describe Eve as "excited" about her newborn son.

That's pure Hollywood, but the team behind "The Voice" says it isn't a gimmick. They hope this new version will help readers understand the meaning behind the sometimes archaic language of the Bible and enjoy the story enough to stick with it.

The idea was a longtime dream of Chris Seay, pastor of Houston's Ecclesia Church. Seay had had success in helping church members relate to the Bible by dividing out the parts of the various speakers and assigning roles to church members who read them aloud.


'via Blog this'

The Political Diaprax - Count Me Out. The Word Is the Only Effective Approach

One Facebook contact ordered me to remove all my posts on Paul McCain. I found that demand strange, since I do not get on various Internet sites and order them to block his comments. Nor do I use other blogs as platforms. McCain does both.

The excuse for this order is to rescue Holy Mother Missouri Synod from its immanent doom. Steadfast Lutherans are supposed to do that. When ordered to stop discussing LCMS felonies, SL immediately obeyed and erased the discussion threads. How many children will be abused to protect the SynConferrence from legitimate lawsuits? LCMS policy is to destroy all evidence taken by District Presidents. People thought the Roman Catholic Church was corrupt and evil?

One LCMS case could cost them $10 million. Do you want to be the one who lets a child victim of LCMS pastoral abuse get that money - instead of missions?

The synod politicians in the LCMS, WELS, and Little Sect on the Prairie want people to engage in the political process. They set the pastors and members up like bowling pins for the Diaprax. Everyone has a managed voice before a managed decision is made. Minders manage each dissenting group so real action turns into an endorsement of the latest folly.

Writers California, Rogue Lutheran, and Church Mouse have been my instructors in Diaprax.

Herman Otten has used the political approach for 50 years. Write memorials. Gather groups. Back candidates. Certain people (for the moment) are above criticism because "they are on our side." Where has that led? Few realize that the SynConference leaders constantly manage the news through Herman Otten. He is always on the phone with them. Story spiked? No problem. Writer banned? Why not? The synod politicians get to loathe Christian News in public while guiding the tabloid in private.

The only issues are doctrinal. The SynConference is terrified of a doctrinal conference - and so are the lazy pastors.

Truth Faith Seems Quenched on Every Hand.Men Suffer Not Thy Word To Stand.Dark Times Have O'ertaken

Two Affinities That Damaged the Synodical Conference

The Arthur Repp book on American catechisms brought up two affinities that help explain why Missouri and WELS headed so effortlessly into Calvinism.

One is the German language. As Repp explained, German-speaking church leaders in America had more affinity for each other than they had for the English-speaking leaders of parallel synods. A German Calvinist was a German first of all: easy to read, easy in conversation, sharing the same culture.

All the Lutheran groups in America were Pietists, so that was not a key difference. They all blended plenty of Pietism with their newly discovered Confessional roots. They all added more or less of Lutheran doctrine to their Pietism, an amalgamation that could not last.

The second affinity was rationalism. Just as the Pietist Delitsch veered into rationalism (advocating two Isaiahs), so the Synodical Conference leaders were drawn into rationalism, which was natural to Pietism and Calvinism.

The cornerstone of UOJ thinking is a rationalistic pratfall. Thus - If Jesus became sin on behalf of mankind, then mankind became righteous at the same moment: Universal Objective Justification.


For UOJ Enthusiasts, the atonement and justification are the same thing, because of that argument. However, the argument is fallacious, because justification is not the same as the atonement.

The Gospel message is the atonement - Christ crucified for the sins of the world. That is the treasure, as the Book of Concord says, in harmony with Luther.

The Holy Spirit distributes that treasure through the Means of Grace. The invisible Word of preaching and teaching plants faith in individuals. The visible Word of Holy Baptism does the same in infants. The visible Word of Holy Communion sustains faith. All the Means of Grace accomplish what God promises - the declaration of forgiveness. Grace comes to the sinner only through Means, never without the Word.

The same rationalism is at work in the assumption that mankind was justified when Jesus rose from the dead. Because 1 Timothy 3:16 says Jesus was justified in the Spirit, that phrase is used to claim the world was also justified. Who advanced that line of thinking? - the Halle Pietist Rambach, echoed by Jay Webber, the Buchholz peritus.

There is no intention to make a perfect parallel between Jesus and mankind in 1 Timothy 3:16. Jesus was not a sinner in need of forgiveness. His resurrection showed that He was perfect in holiness. To equate Jesus with mankind is to make Him in need of forgiveness and sharing that forgiveness instantly with all of mankind, Hottentots and Hindus alike, even before birth.

Although it is fair to show the inherent conflicts within UOJ, such as the Keys, infant baptism, or excommunication of the pre-forgiven, the biggest errors are the foundational ones - Enthusiasm and rationalism. Everything else is a symptom.

The SynConference will not teach justification by faith correctly until

1. its leaders repent, 
2. repudiate the Stephan-Walther UOJ, 
3. and teach in conformity with the Scriptures and Confession.