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Concordia Theological Monthly REC I iJO \ CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL MONTHLY Walther and the Scriptures ROBERT D. PREUS Luther's Alleged Anti-Semitism CARL S. MEYER The Hymn-of-the-Week Plan RALPH D. GEHRKE Homiletics Theological Observer Book Review VOL. XXXII November 1961 No.ll RCHIVEfS BOOK REVIEW All books reviewed in this periodical may be procured from or through Concordia Pub­ lishing House, 3558 South lefJers01l Avenue, St. Louis 18, Missouri. THE WITNESS OF THE SPIRIT. By Ber­ that faith is above reason. The author also nard Ramm. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerd­ rightly finds fault with Pascal and !Gerke­ mans Publishing Co., 1960. 140 pages. gaard for displacing the testimonium with Cloth. $3.00. an existential substitute. ROBERT PREUS In this short volume Ramm offers a dis­ THE WANDERING SAINTS OF THE cussion of the contemporary relevance of the EARLY MIDDLE AGES. By Eleanor internal witness of the Holy Spirit. He feels Shipley Duckett. New York: W. W. Nor­ that one basic cleavage between Rome and ton and Co., 1959. 319 pages. Cloth. Protestantism centers in the fact that Rome $5.00. has failed to appreciate the position of the Reformers on just this point. For Protestant­ This is one of the finest presentations of ism does not merely set the authority of the early medieval missions of which we know. Bible against the amhority of the c},urch. Eleanor Duckett, professor of classics at Orthodox Protestantism refuses to separate Smith College for many years, has success­ the Spirit from the Word of God. fully captured the spirit of the age and espe­ cially of its missionary concerns. Ramm points out, however, that the testi­ She states that she is striving for the "mid­ mony of the Spirit in subsequent history dIe way" between popular narratives about sometimes suffered a shrinkage, and he is the saints and scholarly monographs on the particularly right when he says it became subject. There are no footnotes, and they a mere validation without proper regard to are not needed. It is quite obvious to any­ Christ or salvation. The author insists that one familiar with the documents of the the doctrines of the Trinity and of Christology period that the author is working directly necessarily relate to the testimony of the from the contemporary chronicles, letters and Spirit as presuppositions. And he maintains lives of the saints, with the acumen of a crit­ that the testimonium is a revelation, what he kal historian. At the same time, the reader calls the innerside or underside of revelation. is allowed to see the great themes and move­ Very useful is his discussion of !1C1.Q'tUQLOV, ments of the period as interpreted by based largely on the Strathmantl's article in a scholar with deep appreciation and splendid Kiuel. Two facts are brought out in the dis­ insight. CUI 'on: (1) the witness is true in the sense The book tells the story of the early medi­ of bc;ing factual, and (2) at the same time it evals who wander just to be on the road, .. DOt capable of rational verification, but can alone, and at prayer; of those who went out be receivf!d only by faith. expressly to convert the heathen; and also his final chapter Ramm returns to his of those whom we call pilgrims. It is regret­ Ite with Rome, which, he says, fears the table that the author leaves out the story of r testimony of the Spirit. To Rome this Augustine and Theodore of Canterbury, since nony is subjectivism, but, says Ramm, they would certainly fit into her scheme and only because Rome separaees the witness of since their omission leaves a brilliant aspect ... !fi2t~s C;!'il':;:) dae 'Word 01: God and denies of the story untold here . BOOK REVIEW 723 This work shows once again that the with the mystery cults and their myths which period from the sixth to the ninth century isolated ideas from history. The history of when the Christian Gospel, in a form pecu­ Jesus and His proclamation, insists Bartsch, liar to the period, was spread among the is not merely a presupposition for the New people of England and northwest Europe, Testament proclamation (pace Bultmann) certainly cannot be called a dark age. but is declared by the apostolic proclamation At the end of the book there are excellent to be itself constitutive of that proclamation. bibliographical materials for each chapter. Thus there is established a continuity be­ tween the Jesus of history and the Jesus of WALTER W. OETTING New Testament faith. The proclamation of THE WORD FOR THIS CENTURY. the church includes the testimony that before Edited by Merrill C. Tenney. New York: Easter the church failed to understand the Oxford University Press, 1960. xv and call to decision. Now in her persecuted sit­ 184 pages. Cloth. $4.00. uation she sees that humiliation is the true This symposium commemorates the lOOth mark not only of her own theological exist­ anniversary of the founding of Wheaton Col­ ence but also of the Christ who suffered in lege, always a citadel of conservative Re­ the person of Jesus of Nazareth. By admit­ formed Protestantism and in recent years one ting her earlier failure to recognize Jesus as the Christ, the church not only removes for of the centers "f thp !,"<t_ Flln,1~m~ntalist theological revivaL The nine participants in itself the offense of the Cross but also bridges the gap between Good Friday and Pentecost, this symposium are described as "representa­ which prompts the perennial quest for the tive members" of the school's administration historical Jesus. In this testimony of the (President V. Raymond Edman; Dean Ten­ church, imbedded in her proclamation, of ney) , faculty (Kenneth S. Kantzer), and which the gospels are partial documentation, alumni (Carl F. H. Henry, Stuart Cornelius we can locate the criteria for isolating scien­ Hackett, T. Leonard Lewis, Billy Graham, tifically verifiable data in the Gospel ac­ Glenn W. Barker, and John F. Walvoord). counts, but only in larger outlines. Among The themes are those that one would ex­ these ingredients is the substance of Jesus' pect - sin, the authority of the Bible, the proclamation in Mark 1: 15. Mark documents person of Christ, redemption, Christ in the the church's confession that her proclamation believer, the church, Christian ethics, the is identical with, and rooted in, the procla­ eschatological hope. The volume is a useful mation of Jesus. indicator of the direction that the type of theology for which Wheaton stands is taking. The best commentary on Bartsch's text is Heinz Todt, De". Menschensohn in de". Sy­ ARTHUR CARL PIEPKORN noptischen tJ berliefe".ung (Giitersloh: Gerd DAS HISTORISCHE PROBLEM DES LE­ Mohn, 1959). Bartsch asserts that Jesus' BENS JESU. By Hans-Werner Bartsch. own self-understanding is theologically ir­ Miinchen: Chr. Kaiser Verlag, 1960. relevant (p.29). But Bartsch lays much 3! pages. Paper. DM 2.00. stress on the call to discipleship, and cer­ In this essay Bartsch meets head on the tainly the call to decision pronounced by easy theological optimism of those who claim Jesus implies something regarding His self­ that the history of Jesus of Nazareth is understanding. His self-understanding is irrelevant for theology by pointing out that therefore an aspect of the problem which re­ the early church's recognition of an historical quires much further exploration. person as Redeemer was in marked contrast FREDERICK W. DANKER 724 BOOK REVIEW DIE CHRISTOLOGIE IN LUTHERS LIE­ theran Luther" of the years after 1530 who DERN. By Klaus Burba. Gutersloh: Carl speaks and writes on these pages - the con­ Bertelsmann Verlag, 1956. 72 pages. fessor, the university professor, the contro­ Paper. DM 5.80. versialist, the patriarch of the Reformation Although it takes up Luther's hymns, this movement. We have the Exhortation to All Munster dissertation, published in the series Clergy ASJembled at Augsburg (1530), the Schriften des Vereins fitr Reformations­ Commentary on the Alleged Imperial Edict geschichte, is a piece of systematic rather (1531 ) , Theses Concerning Faith and Law than hymnological research. Burba elucidates (1535), the two 1536 disputations concern­ Luther's hymns in approximately chronolog­ ing man and justification respectively, The ical sequence at the hand of the great Re­ Three Symbols 01" Creeds of the Christian former's sermons and in terms of the march Church (1538), the Counsel of a Committee of historical developments in the Reforma­ of Several Cardinals, with Luther's preface tion. In the process he discovers some in­ and his sarcastic marginal glosses (1538), teresting linkages that cast significant light his preface to Galeatius Capella's History on the meaning of many of Luther's hymns. (1538), the 1539 preface to the Wittenberg One might dissent in some details, and one edition of his collected German works, his might object that Burba's categories are will of 1542, the licentiate examination of sometimes Procrustean and his treatment of Henry Schmedenstede of Liineberg (1542), the hymns uneven. But he has abundantly and finally, out of 1545, Luther's auto­ established his major theses, that the thrust biographically important preface to the Wit­ of Luther's hymns is consciously antispirit­ tenberg edition of his collected Latin works, ualist and anti-Sacramentarian and that they his savage theses Against the Thirty-Two voice a profoundly Christocentric, soterio­ Articles of the Louvain Theologists, and An logically oriented, sacramental, incarnational Italian Lie Concerning Dr. Martin Luther's faith. ARTHUR CARL PIEPKORN Death, with Luther's own cheerful acknowl­ edgment. The whole volume, almost with­ LUTHER'S WORKS. Edited by Helmut T. out exception, makes uncommonly interest­ Lehmann.
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