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March 1994 Volume 34 Number 1 ISBN 0360-9685 March 1994 Volume 34 Number 1 ISBN 0360-9685 1. Foreword -- Pres. Wilhelm Petersen ............... 2. Lecture I - Dr. Robert Kolb ...................... 3. Lecture lI - Dr. Robert Kolb ...................... 4 Lecture 111 - Dr. Robert Kolb ..................... 5. Reaction - Prof. John Brenner .................... 6. Reaction --- Prof. Juui Madson .................. Lsf? Foreword Petersen Foreword nod Quarterly By: Pres. Wilhelm Petersen Theological Journal of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod In this issue of the Quarterly we are pleased to share with our readers the 1993 Reformation Lectures, delivered on October 28-29, Edited by the faculty of at the Ylvisaker Fine Arts Center located on the campus of Bethany Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary Lutheran College. These annual lectures are sponsored by Bethany 447 North Division Street Lutheran College and Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary. Mankato MN 5600 1 The lectures were delivered by Dr. Robert Kolb, professor of History and Religion at Concordia College, St. Paul, Minnesota. His general theme was "Learning to Drink from the Fountains of Israel," . Pres. Wilhelm Petersen and in keeping with the Reformation theme Dr. Kolb ably and interestingly shows how Luther influenced his students, one in Managing Editor . Pres. Wilhelm Petersen . Prof. Adolph Harstad particular of whom we know very little, namely Cyriakus . NorthStar Diversified Co. Spangenberg. Dr. Kolb's research has uncovered interesting insights Phillip K. Lepak into Luther as a student of the Bible and how he influenced his . NorthStar Diversified Co. students. Phillip K. Lepak Lecture I shows how Spangenberg learned hermeneutics, the art of interpretation, from his professor. Lecture I1 is a summary of . Seminarian Erik Gernander Spangenberg's commentary of Romans 8 and 9 which reveals Luther's understanding and appreciation of eternal predestination and God's election of grace. Lecture I11 gives an interesting insight into parish 3UUSC;I1pllUII TI1C;G . go .vv u.a. p~ly ~al life and pastoral care in Luther's day. Cyriakus Spangenberg learned well from his mentor, Martin Luther. Address all subscri~tionsand all correspondence to the The reactors to the lectures were Professor John Brenner, professor of Church History and Education at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, Mequon, Wisconsin, and Professor Juul Madson, professor of New Testament at Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary. Their BETHANY LUTHERAN THEOLOGICAL SEMmARY reactions are also included in this issue. ATTN LUTHERAN SYNOD QUARTERLY "Interesting, instructive, and edifying" is how one of the reactors 447 N DIVISION ST described these lectures. We trust that our readers will share that MANKATO MN 56001 summation! Lse 1993 Reformation Lecture I Kolb Lsc? 1993 Reformation Lecture 1 Kolb Luther's translation of the "beloved prophets' and apostles' writings, " Learning to Drink from the Fountains "clearer and more understandable than in the Greek [Septuagint] and of Israel Latin translations. " Spangenberg also cited Luther's guidance for Cyriakus Spangenberg Learns applying the biblical message according to the proper distinction of law and gospel and his treatment of all the topics of biblical teaching Hermeneutics from Luther among his greatest contributions to the ~hurch.~ Johannes Mathesius had studied at Wittenberg during three By: Dr. Robert Kolb separate periods between 1529 and 1545. In his homiletical biography of Luther he recalled his first experience at Wittenberg. Mathesius As he looked back upon his theological training at the University reminds us that Luther was not the only instructor in biblical studies of Wittenberg in 153 8-4 1 and 1544-46, Johannes Wigand recalled five at the university at his time and that others contributed a good deal to of the most precious gifts which the man who had stood at the center the learning of the students. He also reminds us that Luther's influence of that experience, Martin Luther, had given the church. Three of on his students came not only through his formal lectures. these gifts arose from Luther's calling to be a teacher of the Bible. In "With joy," Mathesius recalled the first sermon which he had heard addition to his catechisms and to the polemical writings against foes Luther preach upon his arrival in Wittenberg. The entire year of the gospel, Wigand listed Luther's translation of the Scriptures into thereafter he was able to hear "many instructional and comforting German, his interpretations of the chief books of the Scriptures, and sermons and lectures in both [the town] church and at the university. " his postils, or sermons on the pericopes of the Scriptures.' As a When he first arrived, the pastor of the town congregation in teacher of the Biblical message, Martin Luther, doctor of the Bible, Wittenberg, Johann Bugenhagen, was away, aiding some city or had made a profound impact on his students. principality in organizing its own Reformation, as was often the case. Luther took his place in the pulpit three or four times a week, at that Student Reflections on Luther as Teacher of the Bible time preaching on the Sunday gospel lessons and then on John's Gospel and Exodus 19 and 20. "On the day of Saint James, he applied Cyriakus Spangenberg had been Wigand's contemporary among the legend of Saint Christopher tenderly to all preachers of the word the students at Wittenberg (1542-1550). As he heard Luther in the and to all Christian people, who carry Jesus Christ in their hearts and lecture hall and chatted with him at table, he came to believe that on their arms and who guard their consciences, help others, and Luther had been the "greatest and most important prophet which the through doing so earn the ingratitude of the world and false brethren." world has had since the time of the apostles, whom more than any In the following weeks Mathesius heard Luther lecture on Isaiah 45- other teacher since that time God made to resemble the prophets of 66: "I often came back from those lectures filled with comfort and the Old Testament." Spangenberg cited several older contemporaries to support his contention that Luther had been the best interpreter of But Mathesius freely acknowledged that his instruction at Scripture ever.' Spangenberg had his own list of Luther's Wittenberg came from others as well. Professor Justus Jonas and three contributions for which he was thankfbl. Among them, too, were deacons, Georg Rorer, Johann Mantel, and Sebastian Froschel, were offering lectures on the catechism at the time at which he Lx? 1993 Reformation Lecture I Kolb LsQ 1993 Reformation Lecture I Kolb arrived. He heard Philip Melanchthon, "that faithful and diligent catechism in grammar school in his home village of Mansfeld. With professor," lecture on Cicero's treatise On Oratory, on dialectic and the other boys in the school he learned psalms for singing in the rhetoric, on the epistle to the Romans, and on Aristotle's Ethics. liturgy. As his schooling advanced, in Magdeburg and Eisenach, he Bugenhagen was offering lectures on Paul's epistles to the Corinthians heard and learned more of the Scripture and may have indeed laid eyes when he was in Wittenberg, and Jonas also lectured on selected on the entire Bible for the first time. At the time he entered the Psalms. Matthaeus Aurogallus gave instruction in Hebrew grammar University of Ehrt and lived in the "bursa" of Saint George there, and was lecturing on Psalm 119. Franz von Weimar taught Greek, portions of Scripture were being read daily during meals to the and a number of younger masters taught assorted courses in the liberal students. When he became a monk, in 1505, he received his own copy arts. It was a period of "peace and harmony between students and the of the Bible, in Latin, the language of the church, bound, he later citizens of the town," Mathesius recalled, and the instructors were not recalled, in red leather. As he lived out the daily routine of the monk, engaged in public dispute. Those were the days, Mathesius believed5 and as he studied at the university, he was immersed more and more Luther was older and wearier when Mathesius heard him conclude in the scripture^.^ his decade long treatment of Genesis, fifteen years after Mathesius Luther's Career as "Doctor in Biblia" first came to Wittenberg. As he traced Moses' prophecies, Luther had The course of his education led Luther finally to receive his degree prescribed to his students "the Son of God speaking so clearly," and as "doctor in Bible" in 1512, and the next year he began lecturing on he had demonstrated how they should protect and defend themselves the text of the Psalms. He turned to the work of a leader in the revival with the books of Moses against all the gates of hell. We had shown of Hebrew studies, Johannes Reuchlin, employing both his grammar how a teacher of God's word with the cross of his responsibilities and and dictionary and his commentary on the penitential psalms in the head of the household with his respohsibilities should find comfort preparing lectures. When Luther turned to the New Testament, first in that word and in the examples and severe spiritual struggles of the to Romans and then to Galatians and Hebrews, in the years between patriarchs. He had also shown his hearers how to cultivate patience 15 15 and 15 18, he employed the first printed edition of the Greek and long-suffering. Luther had continued to preach even though he text, published in 15 16 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, and he was often weak as he mounted the pulpit and occasionally had to also relied on Erasrnus's Paraphrases for assistance in developing his leave it before he had finished his sermons. Nonetheless, Mathesius' own commentary. By the time he began to translate the Bible into memories of his mentor in that year before his death exhibit his German, he had an intimate familiarity with it and a working fondness for the man who had profoundly shaped the way he knowledge of the best of contemporary scholarship.
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