Concordia Publishing House - Books?
I'm very much interested on Concordia Publishing House books. Is there a possibility for Logos to get and enrich us on those books? I want to see more and more books from Lutheran Missouri Synod. I need Lutheran Platinum base packages and ...more ..
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There are already quite a few:
https://www.logos.com/product/19723/concordia-electronic-theological-library-complete-collection
https://www.logos.com/product/18491/the-lutheran-study-bible
https://www.logos.com/product/18541/concordia-the-lutheran-confessions
https://www.logos.com/product/28436/the-apocrypha-the-lutheran-edition-with-notes
https://www.logos.com/product/37743/concordia-commentary
This is not an exhaustive list. What are you interested in, specifically?
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I know and have most of them. But there are plenty of CPH Books I want to buy in and outside base packages.
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So which ones do you need or want that you don't have already?
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Theological textbooks:
http://www.cph.org/c-1325-textbooks-college-and-seminary.aspx?REName=Books%20%26%20Bibles&plk=1318
Lutheran Service Book
The Defence Never Rests,
lutheran Spirituality
The Lutheran difference
lutheranism 101....
so many devotional books....as a collection. & CTCR's in one Collection......we can do more..
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Fasil said:
Some of those are, actually. I know the Martin Chemnitz books are, as well as the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia and the Book of Concord, out of the first few I looked at.
Fasil said:Not likely. My professor in my seminary worship class this past winter was previously the Product Manager for the Lutheran Service Book. Aside from the Lutheran Service Book lectionaries, it's highly unlikely that you'll ever see any digital version, Logos or otherwise, for any of the Lutheran Service Book products. (Second exception: the Pastoral Care Companion.) The reason for this is the existence of the Lutheran Service Builder software, which provides the content of the Lutheran Service Book in digital format for service planning and worship folder/bulletin production.
Fasil said:lutheran Spirituality
The Lutheran difference
lutheranism 101....
so many devotional books....
Overall, Faithlife can only produce for Logos what CPH will license to them, and what Faithlife sees supported in Pre-Pub, such as https://www.logos.com/product/28179/theological-commonplaces-by-johann-gerhard. While I generally agree with you in wanting to see more CPH titles in Logos, some of them may not be possible for those reasons.
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I've so many books on kindle format. I want them in one place & searchable. Logos is the best software! I'm heavily investing on it And I want to express and put it on discussion. I believe it's possible. Sooner or later things have to change. There is more CPH can offer .
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I am always happy to have more CPH in my Logos Library - I believe I currently have all that Faithlife currently offers - but do encourage them to carry more
Pastor Glenn Crouch
St Paul's Lutheran Church
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Not CPH but of similar interest is The People's Bible: Complete Set this series is aimed at laymen but I would think there is benefit enough for all. Here is an example I grabbed from Proverbs 8:22–31:
Some commentators see here no more than a continued personification of wisdom, which belongs with God from eternity and is evident in his creation. This interpretation works well and is consistent with other personifications of abstract terms, such as folly in Proverbs 9:13–18.
Others, however, see wisdom moving beyond personification; we watch as wisdom does more than take on godly characteristics. Here wisdom takes on the nature of God himself and plays a role in the creation of the world. Therefore, those commentators and this author understand this portion of Proverbs chapter 8 as referring to Jesus Christ, the very Son of God.
Notice that wisdom says, “The LORD brought me forth … from eternity … before the world began” (verses 22, 23). Wisdom was present already in eternity, before the creation of the world and, consequently, before there even was such a thing as time. Along the same lines, Jesus said, “And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began” (John 17:5).
Although present from eternity, wisdom is “given birth” by God (verses 24–26). Likewise, Jesus is God’s only begotten Son, “his one and only Son” (John 3:16).
Wisdom is described as present with God at creation (verses 27–29). John’s gospel begins with a description of Jesus as “the Word.” This connects him intimately with the wisdom of Proverbs, which calls out and makes its appeals. John declares: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning” (John 1:1, 2).
“I was the craftsman at his [God’s] side,” says wisdom (verse 30). John’s gospel says of Jesus, “Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made” (John 1:3). Hebrews 1:2 asserts, “[God] has spoken to us by his Son … through whom he made the universe.” And Colossians 1:15–17 declares: “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”
Already in Genesis chapter 1, the mystery of the Trinity is hinted at. “God created the heavens and the earth.… The Spirit of God was hovering.… And God said [repeated each day of creation, indicating the presence of the Word], … God said, ‘Let us make man in our image.’ ”
Note too the parallel time sequence between Genesis chapter 1 and Proverbs. On day one God created the world (Genesis 1:1–5—Proverbs 8:23), on day two the waters (Genesis 1:6–8—Proverbs 8:24), on day three the dry land (Genesis 1:9–13—Proverbs 8:25, 26).
God’s delight in his creation (verses 30, 31) is also seen in his assessment at the end of the sixth day: “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good” (Genesis 1:31).
In the fourth century after Christ, a controversy raged in the Christian churches. Focusing on this portion of Proverbs, the followers of Arius argued that Jesus was a created being and not eternal. There was a time when he was not, they contended. (In our day the Jehovah’s Witnesses have taken up this ancient heresy.) Much of their argument rested on a faulty Greek translation of verse 22: “The LORD created me,” instead of “The LORD brought me forth.”
Orthodox Christians, led by the church father Athanasius, recognized that although begotten (or “brought forth”), Jesus is coeternal with God the Father. Out of this research into God’s Word came the Nicene Creed, in which we still confess our faith in Jesus Christ, “the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one being with the Father. Through him all things were made.”
When we come to the eternally begotten Son and other mysteries concerning the triune God, we are in realms beyond human comprehension. We can no more capture the eternal, omnipotent God within our minds than we could put the ocean into a bucket.
But the wonder of all wonders is that the great Creator has come to us to save us! Jesus is God. He is also our brother, who has suffered and died for us. Jesus is “the wisdom of God” (1 Corinthians 1:24), the one “in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Colossians 2:3).
Roland Cap Ehlke, Proverbs, 2nd ed., The People’s Bible (Milwaukee, WI: Northwestern Pub. House, 1992), 75–77.-Dan
PS: I grew up in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada.... but I do appreciate the scholarship of all Lutheran's...
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Dan - I always like your inputs. More and more of Fortress Press scholarships are in Logos. I'm hopping the same scholarships to come from CPH.
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