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The Doctrinal Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Verified from the Original Sources is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Doctrinal Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church produces a comprehensive look at the complete development of Lutheran theology through the turn of the nineteenth century. Heinrich Schmid draws from 10 Protestant scholastics, compiling a dogmatic volume on old Lutheran theology, citing Melanchthon, Chemnitz, Gerhard, Hutterus, Hafenreffer, Calov, Quenstedt, Baier, Hollaz, and König as...

form and substance. The still later theologians, as, for instance, S. J. Baumgarten, I could of course not employ at all, for who would think of calling theirs an age of orthodoxy? They can, therefore, not appear in a work designed not as a history of Theology, but as a representation of orthodox doctrine. “The doctrinal writers upon whom I have based my representations are, therefore, the following: Melanchthon (Loci Communes Theologici, 1545), Chemnitz (Loci Theologici, ed. Polycarpus Leyser, 1591),
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