Bøger af Rachel K. Melvin

Johann Gerhard (1582-1637) has long been recognized as the greatest theologian of the Age of Lutheran Orthodoxy (1580-1713). In 1611, Gerhard published a summary of Christian dogmatics under the title, Aphorismi Succincti et Selecti... A generation later, Ralph Winterton published an abridged English title of this work under the title, A Golden Chaine of Divine Aphorismes (1632). However, a complete translation has been unavailable until now. Gerhard's Succinct and Select Theological Aphorisms was written during a particularly significant period in the theologian's work when he produced books such as On the Legitimate Interpretation of Sacred Scripture (1610) and A Comprehensive Explanation of Holy Baptism and the Lord's Supper (1610). Gerhard's Succinct and Select Theological Aphorisms provides a thorough summary of classical Lutheran dogmatic theology divided into twenty-three chapters. Rev. Paul A. Rydecki's translation of Gerhard's Succinct and Select Theological Aphorisms is his tenth volume translated from the classics of the Age of Lutheran Orthodoxy and his fourth volume from the writings of Johann Gerhard.

Johannes Bugenhagen (1485-1558) was one of the most important theologians of the Lutheran Reformation. In addition to serving with as pastor of St. Mary's Church in Wittenberg, Bugenhagen served on the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg, and was heavily involved in the reform of several of the territorial churches which were affiliated with the Reformation. Bugenhagen's Commentary on the First Four Chapters of the Gospel according to Matthew is an exegetical treasure. In this volume, Bugenhagen undertakes a thorough explanation of various issues, including to the genealogy of Jesus, the prophetic promises concerning the Virgin Birth, the implications of the flight of the Holy Family into Egypt for Christians suffering persecution, the salvific character of John's Baptism, and the application temptations which Christ suffered in the wilderness to the temptations which have confronted the Church throughout the ages. First published in Latin in 1543, this is the first English edition to be published. It is the second volume in a series of works by Johannes Bugenhagen to be published by Repristination Press.