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Concordia Theological Monthly CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL MONTHLY Melanchthon the Theologian ROBERT D. PREUS Luther and Melanchthon ERWIN L. LUEKER Melanchthon the Churchman GILBERT A. THIELE Galatians 2:1-10 and the Acts of the Apostles ROBERT G. HOERBER Brief Studies Theological Observer Homiletics Book Review VOL. XXXI August 1960 No.8 I l BOOK REVIEW All books reviewed in this periodical may be procured from or through Concordia Pub­ lishing House, 3558 South Jefferson Avenue, St. Louis 18, Missouri. GOD AND MAN IN WASHINGTON. By der the t~tle Jesu Tod und Auferstehung, they Paul Blanshard. Boston: Beacon Press, have been "revised and expanded" by the 1960. 251 pages. Cloth. $3.50. author, now a professor of theology at the Homework for all citizens, especially lead- University of Berlin and one of Christen­ ers in society and in the church! That's what dom's leaders in its confrontation with Com­ Blanshard has given us in his latest book. munism. The texts are all from Luke 22:39 In his six chapters he writes about church­ to 24: 53. There are 15 sermons. The his­ state relations in these United States, our na­ torian will be interested in the occasional tional religiosity and religious ideals, the flashes of the Kirchenkampf apparent to a actions of the Supreme Court affecting the congregation patrolled by Hitler's minions. churches, actions of Congress, the ramification But the preacher will be amazed at the sim­ of religious issues for the presidency, and ple Biblical method and the unswerving pluralism. He himself says (p. 4): "It is theocentricity and Christocentricity. For a book about the American people, their re­ Americans drowning in a sea of sermons on ligion and their government, with the focus the moral influence of the Cross this preach­ on Washington." Separation of church and ing of the Atonement is a special boon. The state is one of his major concerns. Where is Easter and Ascension sermons retain the same the wall located? Churches and politicians salutary emphases. have not always agreed on the location. The RICHARD R. CAEMMERER issues in 1960 have made many face the SYMBOLISM IN THE BIBLE AND THE question. Blanshard, as might be supposed, CHURCH. By Gilbert Cope. New York: does not minimize the Roman Catholic issue. Philosophical Library, 1959. Cloth. 287 It is doubtful in this reviewer's mind that he pages. $10.00. always deals with the underlying considera­ "The womb-symbolism of Toplady's hymn tions, especially in his six questions (p. 10). Nevertheless, the author has written a book Rock of ages, cleft for me, that demands a hearing because of its forth­ Let me hide myself in Thee right confrontation of basic religious-political is unmistakable, and this, indeed, probably questions of today. CARL S. MEYER accounts for its great popularity" (p.103). Cope, an Anglican priest and at the time of THE DYING AND LIVING LORD. By publication a tutor in the extramural studies Helmut Gollwitzer. Translated from the department of the University of Birmingham, fourth German edition by Olive Wyon. makes this statement in the midst of his dis­ Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press. 1960. cussion of archetypes of Creation. Possibly Paper, 123 pages. $1.25. a reviewer whose life has so long been un­ These sermons on Jesus' Passion were aware of this hymn's unmistakable symbolism, originally preached in Berlin during 1939 and who has never cared much for it in the and 1940, when the author was Martin Nie­ first place, should disqualify himself from moeller's successor in Dahlem. Published un- further comment. Taking a stand between 507 508 BOOK REVIEW a "resurgence of 'literalism' or 'fundamental­ voice of those who have "grown up in the ism' on the one hand and on the other a Protestant plain-glass and bare-walled tradi- development of post-critical neo-typology" tion." GEORGE W. HOYER and quoting Basil Willey to the effect that "it is hard to say which is the most mislead­ PRAYER-BOOK STUDIES: XlII. THE ing - the fundamentalist reading, which ORDER FOR THE BURIAL OF THE mistakes mythology for history, or the Alex­ DEAD. XIV. AN OFFICE OF INSTI­ andrian, which sees allegory where none was TUTION OF RECTORS INTO PAR­ intended" (p. 20), Cope discusses medieval ISHES. Edited by Massey H. Shepherd, Jr. imagery, Biblical types, psychological types, New York: The Church Pension Fund, and archetypes of creation, of male and 1959. vii + 52 pages. Paper. 60 cents. female, and of suffering in Christian Scrip­ The proposed revision of the burial office tures, art, and liturgy. is "designed for the comfort of the living He asserts (pp. 15, 16) that "in the Gos­ rather than for the benefit of the dead" pels we are reading much more than an (p. 4). One need not be a member of the objective record of events as seen by an im­ Protestant Episcopal Church to indorse the partial observer. The evangelists were not proposed rubrics that enjoin the minister Hansard-reporters or radio commentators­ "from time to time [to} advise the people they were creative writers drawing upon a that members of the Church are properly wealth of matenal, some of which was his­ buried from the Church, except for urgent torical and some of which had associations cause" and direct that "before the service in the realm of legend and myth. History begins the coffin be closed and covered with and interpretation are interwoven to disclose a pall or some other proper covering" the pattern of God's saving action at many (p. 10); the latter rubric is specifically "de­ levels of experience and in several categories signed to prevent the use of flowers or other of existence.... Did the gospel-writers de­ inappropriate covering" (p. 4). What seems liberately and consciously compose their to be an inconsistency is the proposed delib­ works? If you want to know, ask a poet." erate omission of a reference to the soul He asks the question, "How does the tra­ of the person being buried, to obviate the ditional Christian idea of God and salvation implication of "a division of the soul and through Christ, together with all its cus­ the body" (p. 5), coupled with retention of tomary symbolism, accord with the modern the "prayers on behalf of the soul" in the evolutionary view of nature?" (p.264) He collect that follows; the same collect is like­ is among those who "are extremely uneasy wise retained as the alternative collect for and aware that the traditional expression of a celebration of the Holy Communion as an the Church's world-view lies in fragments" optional part of the burial office. (p. 265). But he contends that we have in­ A valuable historical note describes the herited from our remote ancestors certain origin and development in feudalism of the patterns of unconscious thought coupled with custom of "instituting" (that is, in Lutheran corresponding emotional attitudes which can terminology, "installing" or "investing") be stirred by the apt symbolic and liturgic rectors into parishes; although the English pattern, and warns those who seek to revise development diverged considerably from the the services of the church "not to neglect the evolution that took place on the European non-rational responses which can be evoked continent, this account will remind the Lu­ from the psyche of most people" (p. 274) . theran reader that his church's parallel office Here the book serves as antidote to the is likewise the fruit of a historical process. BOOK REVIEW 509 Thoroughly commendable is the strong sug­ latter as not entirely good. After reading all gestion of the proposed rubrics that the pas­ of the surveys and analyses of modern sub­ tor ought to be installed in his parish at urban culture, Greeley remains an independ­ a celebration of the Holy Eucharist. ent thinker. At several points he attempts, ARTHUR CARL PIEPKORN on the basis of his own experience with suburban people, to answer questions not WHAT)S LUTHERAN IN EDUCATION? adequately handled in the analyses of the By Allan Hart Jahsmann. St. Louis: Con­ Riesmans and Whites. While the earlier cordia Publishing House, 1960. xii + parts of the book cover ground which has 185 pages. Cloth. $3.50. been rather heavily discussed within the last Here is a long-needed book which sharply decade (although he does so in a fresh way) , spells out the essence and function of a Lu­ his unique contribution is made in the final theran philosophy of education. section, "the Suburban Apostolate.'" The True to his theme, Jahsmann places his struggle of popular culture and the liturgy, primary stress on what Lutheran educators social action, and a "spirituality for sub­ and pastors have said that Lutheran educa­ urbanites" are challenges faced by every tion is. There are references and quotations ecclesia-type church. While he, too, calls for from a broad area throughout the Lutheran thought and writing in these areas, the au­ Church. The material is clearly organized thor has pinpointed aspects of the problem and documented, and the vagaries often com­ and at least pointed to the spot where he mon to such a work are absent. thinks a solution may lie. What)s Lutheran in Education? is no DAVID S. SCHULLER pedestrian "how-to" treatise, but a thought­ GRIECHISCH-DEUTSCHES WORTER- ful, critical, and thorough study of the way BUCH ZU DEN SCHRIFTEN DES in which Lutherans have viewed their educa­ NEUEN TESTAMENTS UND DER tional task in the past, what they are saying UBRIGEN URCHRISTLICHEN LITE­ today, and where they are going. Jahsmann RATUR. By Walter Bauer. Berlin: Ver­ upholds the theme that is a sine qua non of lag Alfred Topelmann, 1958.
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