New CPH book- Church Fellowship-2: Contents xref

[2024-08-18: updated links to original sources, mostly English; see also later post for more details.]

This continues from Part 1 reviewing the information on the new upcoming addition to CPH's Walther's Works series – Church Fellowship.

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I stand partially corrected from my comment in Part 1 – this volume does include some essays from the now defunct book Essays for the Church.  Their statement on the copyright page which says this volume was "chiefly from Lehre und Wehre" is somewhat misleading.  Why didn't they say that this volume is actually a selection of articles from Lehre und Wehre and essays to conventions and reprints from Concordia Theological Monthly?

The following is a cross-reference listing of the sources for the included items in this Church Fellowship edition.  These are the 2 major sources

• EfLuW == Editorials from "Lehre und Wehre"  (see my xref to Google Books here)
• EftCx  == Essays for the Church, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (see my download list- Convention Essays)

1. Subscribing to the Whole Book of Concord, 1857                                          1
           EfLuW, pgs 39-42 (LuW vol. 3, (1857) pgs 1-4)
2. Taking the Confessions Seriously, 1858                                                      5
           EfLuW, pgs 43-48 (LuW vol. 4, (1858) pgs 1-6)
3. Answer to the Question “Why Should Our Pastors, Teachers,
              and Professors Subscribe Unconditionally to the Symbolical
              Writings of Our Church?,” 1858                                                         11
           EftC1, pgs 19-29 (Western Dist. 1858, Tappert- Luth. Conf. Theol. in Am., pgs 61-83)
4. On Doctrinal Development, 1859                                                                29
           EfLuW, pgs 49-61 (LuW vol. 5, (1859), pgs 1-12)
5. On Church Language, 1859                                                                        43
           EfLuW, pgs 62-73 (LuW vol. 5, (1859), pgs 65-71)
6. Do We Draw the Lines of Fellowship Too Narrowly?, 1860                           55
           EfLuW, pgs 74-101 (LuW vol. 6, (1860), pgs 1-13)
7. The Missouri Synod’s Adherence to the Lutheran Confessions, 1866             75
           EfLuW, pgs 115-121 (LuW vol. 13 (1866), pgs 1-8)
8. On Syncretism, 1868                                                                                 81
           ? - unclear item, perhaps EftC1, pgs 104-124 ("syncretism" on pg 123, Western- 1867) 
9. The False Arguments for the Modern Theory of Open Questions, 1868          95
           CTM vol. 10 (1939), pgs 254-262,... (LuW vol. 14, 1868, see index: "Die falschen Stützen...")
10. Theses on the Modern Theory of Open Questions, 1868                             141
           ? - CTM vol. 17, (1946), pgs 481-499 (LuW vol. 14, (1868), pgs 1 ff,, 33 ff, 65 ff)
11. Communion Fellowship, 1870                                                                   145
           EftC1, pgs 202-228 (Western Dist. 1870, pgs 21 ff.)
12. Summary of Christian Doctrine, Sixteen Theses, 1872                                193
           EftC1, pgs 229-243 (English Conf., 1872, "almost verbatim")
13. On the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Formula of Concord, 1877          217
           EfLuW, pgs 143-163 (LuW vol. 23 (1877), pgs 1-5)
14. Duties of an Evangelical Lutheran Synod, 1879                                          237
           EftC2, pgs 6-63 (Iowa Dist. 1879, pgs 9 ff.)
15. The Only Source of Doctrine, 1882                                                             337
           EfLuW, pgs 164-178 (LuW vol. 28 (1882), pgs 1-6)
16. Church Fathers and Doctrine, 1884                                                             351
           EftC2, pgs 67-101 (Synodical Conf., 1884, pgs 5 ff.)

So I see now what Publisher Paul McCain meant 2-1/2 years ago when he said:

...we are presently engaged in releasing a new set of Walther's works, pulling together all the previously different formats, shapes, sizes, into a consistent set of books. "Essays for the Church" will be included in this new series.

Why didn't the CPH agent explain this when I called them 9 months later?  The CPH agent got off the phone and evidently spoke to a more knowledgeable person (took 30 seconds) and said "nothing was in the pipeline".  And why would it take 2-1/2 years to republish writings that have long ago been translated – there is not a single new piece of translated work in this whole volume?  Maybe it didn't seem important enough to CPH then...  oh, but now, now CPH has seen the light, and today's LC-MS has woken up and has communal readings of Bonhoeffer (page 344 here), oops! I mean is republishing translations of "Walther's Works".

In the next Part 3, I will review the cover graphic, etc...