Jacobs - Elements of Religion
Henry Eyster Jacobs was one of the translators for the Schmid's Doctrinal Theology, and while he used that text in his classes, found that he needed a more basic introduction to Lutheran Theology. And so he wrote one. Is it one of the great systems that will be ever referenced? No - probably not. But it is a clear introduction, written by someone who was conversant in the Lutheran Confessions (which he had translated), 17th century orthodoxy, as well as multiple figures of his 19th century. He manages to boil down his erudite knowledge into short comments on major theological loci.
While the text is short and sweet, his notes can be extensive. I noticed this on his essay from the First Lutheran Diet, which I released earlier. In the notes he has significant amounts of untranslated Latin and fully enters into some rather technical theological debates. In the printed edition, they were endnotes, and are listed as an Appendix in the table of contents. For this edition, I did convert them to footnotes. Some are quite extensive... I tried to link to Hodge, Strong, Shedd, and Schaff when they were referenced in these notes, as well as Luther and Book of Concord. I would have liked to include links to Krauth and Schmid, but since the ID's change when different people compile the source...
The text is from Google Books, specifically http://books.google.com/books?id=9CMsAAAAYAAJ. I took their epub and converted it via Calibre and then linked in the endnotes appendix to the main text. It was a clean scan, so proof reading wasn't too difficult.
SDG,
Ken McGuire
The Gospel is not ... a "new law," on the contrary, ... a "new life." - William Julius Mann
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Kenneth McGuire said:
He manages to boil down his erudite knowledge into short comments on major theological loci.
Peace to you, Ken! *smile* .. and .... Always Joy in the Lord!
Finally! Finally I have opportunity to download this and begin to study it! Let me say again, please, how much I appreciate your "various sharings" with the Logos Forums Community!
On a personal note I do pray for you and those near and dear to you occasionally as I have opportunity. This has been a very difficult year for me, and I end up being very grateful for those who have prayed for me; and I find I'm more encouraged to pray for others as I see that indeed it all works together for good! *smile*
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eCount it all joy, my brothers,2 when you meet trials fof various kinds, 3 for you know that gthe testing of your faith hproduces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be iperfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Philippians 4: 4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand..........
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Thank you, Kenneth, for sharing your (as always) fine work.
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By the way, I really appreciate the Lutheran resources you are providing.
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Glad to hear that this little labor of love is appreciated by some of you out there.
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Ken
The Gospel is not ... a "new law," on the contrary, ... a "new life." - William Julius Mann
L8 Anglican, Lutheran and Orthodox Silver, Reformed Starter, Academic Essentials
L7 Lutheran Gold, Anglican Bronze
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Today my copy of Logos got an updated Schaff History of the Christian Church. It now has page numbers, and so I am able to link to the pages instead of just the section of it. Since I remembered that this book had a couple of links to the Schaff, I figured it was worth releasing this easy update.
SDG,
Ken McGuire
The Gospel is not ... a "new law," on the contrary, ... a "new life." - William Julius Mann
L8 Anglican, Lutheran and Orthodox Silver, Reformed Starter, Academic Essentials
L7 Lutheran Gold, Anglican Bronze
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Recently I looked over at Community Pricing and saw that Henry Jacobs has a later "systematic" theology work up for bid at https://www.logos.com/product/43138/a-summary-of-the-christian-faith . It looks like the work up for bid is significantly longer, and written about a decade later than this work. Since the last update I posted years ago, I have updated my source file with a few links to Schmid and CP Krauth, as well as tagged a bit more as Latin, so it should pull up the appropriate dictionary when clicked. I hope that my PB will encourage you to bid on the community pricing book linked above.
SDG,
Ken McGuire
The Gospel is not ... a "new law," on the contrary, ... a "new life." - William Julius Mann
L8 Anglican, Lutheran and Orthodox Silver, Reformed Starter, Academic Essentials
L7 Lutheran Gold, Anglican Bronze
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Thanks for this update!
It would encourage me to bid - only I'm in since 2014:
Have joy in the Lord!
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In reading some of this work, I found a broken link to Calvin's Institutes that has been fixed in this release. In addition, I added a link to Augustine's City of God, and the canons of Trent in the various footnotes, and deleted some terminal white space that somehow got in there after the notice from Google. So, a rather minor update.
But DO bid on the CP offering I mentioned above.
SDG
Ken McGuire
The Gospel is not ... a "new law," on the contrary, ... a "new life." - William Julius Mann
L8 Anglican, Lutheran and Orthodox Silver, Reformed Starter, Academic Essentials
L7 Lutheran Gold, Anglican Bronze
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Thanks. Like NB. Mick, I have had my bid in for a long time.
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