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CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY CONCORDIA Fort Wayne, in 46825-4996 6600 North Clinton Street THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY teach the faithful, reach lost, and care for all. Forming servants in Jesus Christ who QUARTERLY THEOLOGICAL CONCORDIA CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY THEOLOGICAL CONCORDIA CONCORDIA Fort Wayne, IN 46825-4996 Fort Wayne, 6600 North Clinton Street THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY Volume 83 Number 1–2 January/April 2019 CELEBRATING 150 YEARS OF CONCORDIA PUBLISHING HOUSE A Brief History of Concordia Publishing House Charles P. Schaum Review Essay: Publications from Concordia Jan/Apr 2019 Publishing House John T. Pless Review Essay: Chemnitz, Gerhard, Walther Roland F. Ziegler Review Essay: Luther’s Works Lawrence R. Rast Jr. The Canonical Reading of Scripture James G. Bushur A Debatable Theology 83:1–2 Richard J. Serina Jr. ORGANIZATION Berne, IN 46711 NON-PROFIT NON-PROFIT Permit No. 43 U.S. Postage Luther and Latin Polyphonic Music PAID Daniel Zager Useful Applications of Scripture Benjamin T. G. Mayes Pastoral Formation in the 21st Century Lawrence R. Rast Jr. US ISSN 0038-8610 5/28/2019 11:45:17 AM Concordia Theological Quarterly Concordia Theological Quarterly, a continuation of The Springfielder, is a theological journal of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, published for its ministerium by the faculty of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Editor: David P. Scaer ([email protected]) Associate Editor: Charles A. Gieschen ([email protected]) Assistant Editor: Benjamin T.G. Mayes ([email protected]) Book Review Editor: Peter J. Scaer ([email protected]) Members of the Editorial Committee James G. Bushur, Paul J. Grime, John G. Nordling, and Lawrence R. Rast Jr. Editorial Assistant: Daniel S. Broaddus The Faculty James G. Bushur Naomichi Masaki Peter J. Scaer Carl C. Fickenscher II Benjamin T.G. Mayes Ryan M. Tietz Charles A. Gieschen John G. Nordling Klaus Detlev Schulz Paul J. Grime John T. Pless William C. Weinrich Gifford A. Grobien Jeffrey H. Pulse Dean O. Wenthe Arthur A. Just Jr. Lawrence R. Rast Jr. Don C. Wiley Cameron A. MacKenzie Robert V. Roethemeyer Roland F. Ziegler Walter A. Maier III David P. Scaer Gary W. Zieroth Concordia Theological Quarterly (CTQ) is indexed in Religion Index One: Periodicals and abstracted in Old Testament Abstracts and New Testament Abstracts. CTQ is also indexed in the ATLA Religion Database® and included in the full-text ATLASerials® (ATLAS®) collection. Both are products of the American Theological Library Association, 300 S. Wacker Dr., Suite 2100, Chicago, IL 60606, (E-mail: [email protected]; Web: www.atla. com). It is also indexed in the International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences (www.gbv.de). Unless otherwise noted, all quotations from Scripture are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers, Wheaton, Illinois. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Manuscripts submitted for publication should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style and are subject to peer review and editorial modification. Please visit our website at www.ctsfw.edu/CTQ for more information. Previous articles, Theological Observers, and Book Reviews can be accessed electronically at media.ctsfw.edu. The advertisement of books in CTQ does not imply endorsement of the books or theological agreement with their contents. Subscription Information CTQ is published for January/April and July/October. The annual subscription rate is $30.00 within the United States, $35.00 (U.S.) in Canada, and $45.00 (U.S.) elsewhere. All changes of address, subscription payments, subscription cancellations, and other correspondence should be e-mailed to [email protected] or sent to Concordia Theological Quarterly, 6600 North Clinton Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46825. CTQ is printed and shipped by Mignone Communications, a Division of EP Graphics, Inc., Berne, Indiana. ©2019 Concordia Theological Seminary • US ISSN 0038-8610 CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY Volume 83:1–2 January/April 2019 Table of Contents The Highest and Ultimate Gift of God: A Brief History of Concordia Publishing House in the German-Era LCMS Charles P. Schaum ............................................................................................ 3 Taking the Pulse of Theology in the Missouri Synod: A Look at Publications from Concordia Publishing House John T. Pless .................................................................................................... 27 Chemnitz, Gerhard, Walther, and Concordia Publishing House Roland F. Ziegler ............................................................................................ 43 Luther’s Works: A Monument for Centuries to Come Lawrence R. Rast Jr. ....................................................................................... 51 The Early Christian Appropriation of Old Testament Scripture: The Canonical Reading of Scripture in 1 Clement James G. Bushur ............................................................................................. 63 A Debatable Theology: Medieval Disputation, the Wittenberg Reformation, and Luther’s Heidelberg Theses Richard J. Serina Jr. ......................................................................................... 85 “Exulting and adorning in exuberant strains:” Luther and Latin Polyphonic Music Daniel Zager .................................................................................................... 97 The Useful Applications of Scripture in Lutheran Orthodoxy: An Aid to Contemporary Preaching and Exegesis Benjamin T. G. Mayes ................................................................................. 111 Pastoral Formation in the 21st Century: The Pedagogical Implications of Globalization Lawrence R. Rast Jr. ..................................................................................... 137 Theological Observer ................................................................................................. 157 Books, Always Books: Reflections on the 150th Anniversary of Concordia Publishing House New Developments in the Trend toward Lutheran Classical Education in the LCMS Book Reviews ............................................................................................................... 177 Books Received ............................................................................................................ 191 Editor’s Note This year marks the 150th anniversary of Concordia Publishing House. Since her founding, she has supported the church in a number of ways, most especially through the publication of materials used to proclaim God’s word. The Editors now take this opportunity to thank Concordia Publishing House for her work, in general, and for supporting the publication of this issue in particular. May the Lord grant Concordia Publishing House increased blessing in service to him. The Editors CTQ 83 (2019): 3–26 The Highest and Ultimate Gift of God: A Brief History of Concordia Publishing House in the German-Era LCMS Charles P. Schaum I. Introduction In 1869, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS), then Die deutsche evangelisch-lutherische Synode von Missouri, Ohio und anderen Staaten, wanted to form a synodical press to stabilize its core mission of publishing modern Lutheran classics designed to aid the teaching and defense of doctrine. Concordia Seminary professor Georg Mezger put it best in the Denkstein published in 1922 for the seventy-fifth anniversary of the LCMS: The fact that God permitted His revealed word to be written down, that He commanded research in Scripture, and that in many Bible passages He commissioned us to proclaim His word to all people surely vouches for the certainty that, according to God’s will, the art of publication or the press also may serve Him and His Church. Thus Luther also called publication “the highest and ultimate gift of God, through which He promotes the matter [of the Gospel]” (St. Louis Edition XXII:1658).1 Here we seek to show the events that shaped the course of Christian publication in the early LCMS, both for good and ill.2 II. Turbulent Early Years C. Ferdinand W. Walther began publishing Der Lutheraner (“The Lutheran”) in September 1844. His unifying, supportive goals for this newspaper, which extended throughout the LCMS German era, included the following: 1 Georg Mezger, Denkstein zum fünfundsiebzigjährigen Jubiläum der Missourisynode (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1922), 292. Unless otherwise noted, all translations from German sources are by the present author and use boldface to indicate Sperrdruck in the original. 2 One should consult the collections at Concordia Historical Institute. The present author organized handwritten sources of the German-era conventions. See Martin R. Noland and Mark Loest, eds., The Doctrinal Resolutions of the National Conventions of The Lutheran Church— Missouri Synod 1847–2004 (St. Louis: Concordia Historical Institute, 2006). Charles P. Schaum is Pastor of Christ the King Lutheran Church, Muscle Shoals, Alabama. He can be contacted at [email protected]. 4 Concordia Theological Quarterly 83 (2019) 1. Concerning doctrine: To make known the treasures and history of the Lutheran Church and 2. to offer proof that this Church does not stand among the category of Christian sects, rather, that it is not a new church but the old, true Church on earth. 3. To show the true, Lutheran manner in which a person can have faith, live a Christian life, and die a blessed death. Finally, 4. [to show] how to discover and refute the false, misleading doctrine that is
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