I I i I I. (!!nurnr~ta mlttnlngtrttl 6tnt~l!J Continuing LEHRE UND WEHRE MAGAZIN FUER EV.·Lu TH. H OMILETIK THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY. THEOLOGICAL MONTHLY Vol.xvm November, 1947 No. It CONTENTS Pale The Una Sancta in Luther's Theology, F. E. Ma)er_ 801 Memorandum Concerning the Church Situation ill Germany. Martin Klunke _. __ __ _ _ _ 815 The Consensus of Sandomierz. A Chaptel' from the Polish Reformation . J aroslav P Ukan. J r . .. __ ___ _ ._________ . _. _____ . 825 Contributors to This Issue _ _ . _ .. 838 Outlines on the Nassau Pericopes _ ... _._____ _ ___ _. _ 839 Miscellanea _ ___ .. _____ .. _ _______ 853 Theological Observer ___ . ____ .. _. ________ . 859 Book Review .__ .... _ .. _ _ ._._ .. _____ _ _ 872 Eln Prediger muss nlcht allein wet- den. also cL~ss er die Schafe unter- weise, wle sie rechte Christen sollen sein, sondern auch daneben den Woel- fen wehTen. dass sle die Schafe nicht angy-eiten und mit falscher Lehre ver- fuehren und Irrtum elnfuehren. Luther Es 1st keln Ding, das die Leute mehr bel der Klrche behaeIt denn die gute Predigt. - Apologie. Arl.24 If the trumpet give an uncertain sound. who shall prepare himself to the battle? - 1 COT. 14:8 Published by the Ev. Luth. Synod of Missou ri, Ohio, and Other States CONCORDIA PUBUSIDNG BOUSE, St Louis 18, Mo. pUIf'DD IN lJ. S ••• 838 CONTRIBUTORS Contributors to This Issue The three feature articles in this issue are related to a topic of immediate interest and deep concern to all Christians and to Lutherans in particular: Christian Fellowship Without Denial of One Word of God. The question of Lutheran fellowship occupied our Synod at Chicago; the problem of Lutheran world unity was the heart and core of Lund; and the thought of an ecumenical Christianity will be the central theme of the proposed Amsterdam meeting in 1948. The first article, "Luther's Concept of the Una Sancta," by your magazine's editor pro tem, originally appeared in Christendom and is republished with permission. Christendom is the publication of the American Committee for the World Council of Churches. The author endeavored to present Luther's view on the unity of the Una Sancta and the necessity of confessional con- sciousness to readers who are interested in a pan-Christian union and advocate an external ecumenicity. The second article, dealing with the rather confused church situation in Germany, was prepared by Lic. Martin Kiunke. Pastor Kiunke was born August 27, 1898, in Breslau. At present he is the pastor of the congregation at Klitten, Oberlausitz (Russian Zone) . Here he is gathering the dispersed members of the former flourishing Breslau Church in Silesia. He has been a member of the church council of the Breslau Synod and has been very active in the union endeavors between the Breslau Synod and the Saxon Free Church. Recently his church body appointed him professor for the proposed theological high school to be opened at Frankfurt am Main, where he will teach church history and related subjects. The topic of his dissertation for the licentiate is: "Johann Gottfried Scheibel und sein Ringen um die lutherische Reformation." His contribution to our magazine (written in German and translated by the managing editor pro tem) is an analysis of the current religious situation in Germany and an attempt to point out the main prob- lems confronting the Lutheran Church. In this issue we shall bring the first part of his memorandum, dealing with the EKiD. The second chapter will appear in an early issue and will present the church conditions as they affect the United Evangelical Lu- theran Church. The third article was prepared by Jaroslav Pelikan, Jr. This young author is the son of Pastor J. J. Pelikan, Chicago, Ill., of the Slovak Lutheran Church of America. He was graduated from Concordia College, Fort Wayne, in 1942; from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, in 1946 (B. D.), and from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago in 1946 (Ph. D.). The title of his doctor's dissertation is: "Luther and the Confessio Bohemica." He is a member of the Department of History at Valparaiso University. Dr. Pelikan has made special studies in the field of the Lutheran Slovak Church history, an area relatively unknown to students of church history. His current contribution deals with a phase of union endeavors which is historically of considerable significance. F.E.M.