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LOGIA A JOURNAL OF LUTHERAN THEOLOGY EASTERTIDE/APRIL 1994 VOLUME III, NUMBER2 CONTENTS APR 18 1995 CORRESPONDENCE....................................................................................................................................................................................2 ARTICLES That the Unlearned May Be Taught By Dennis W. Marwlf. .................................................................................................................................................................................................... -4 Lutheran Hymnody: Is it Possible or Even Necessary Anymore? By Paul J. Grime ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 8 A Victorian Legacy: The Translating ofGerman Hymns By Alan C. Hoger ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 18 WeAII Believe in One True God: Luther's Liturgical Confession ofthe Church's Continuity ofDoctrine throughout the Ages By Jon D. Vieker ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 26 Music: Gift ofGod or Tool ofthe Devil _ ' By Richard C. Resc~...................................................................................................................................~'\~..Sf,r~.Uy~.............................33 ACall for Manuscnpts ......................................................................................................................... .fi:::i................................ 12-16. 14. Veit, pp. 186-87. 15. While "A MiglIty Fortress" is based on Psalm 46, it is not like the other psalm hymns of Luther. He wrote this hymn three to four years later and intended it only as a summary of the Psalm. 16. AE 15:304-305,310; WA 54:59,24-25,37-38; 60,19; 64, 13-14. 17. See the semantic tables in Veit, pp. 167-88. 18. Veit, p. 68, n. 28; p. 171. 19. AE 43:200. 20. Veit, pp. 37 ff. 21. Claus Burba, Die Christologje in Luthers Liedern, [Schriften des Vereins fur Reformationsgeschichte1, no. 175 (Giitersloh: Carl Bertelsmann Verlag, 1956), p. 9. 22. AE 53:316; WA 35:474, 16-17.