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LEHRE UNO VVEHRE
MAGAZIN FUER E v . -LuTH. H OMILETIK
THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLy-THEOLOGICAL M ONTHLY
vol. xvm July, 1947 No. 7
CONTENTS Page
Ludwig EJ:nest Fuerbringer, 1864-1947. J . H. C. Fritz ' ________ _ 481
Haec Dixit Dominus. Th. Engelder ___ ____ _ _ _ ______ ______ ___ 484
Light from the Papyri on St. Paul's Terminology. Eric C. l\1aUe ___ 499
Outlines on the Nitzsch Gospel Selections ___________ _ __ ______ 518
Miscellanea ______________ ______ __ _______________ . __ ._ 530
Theological Observer ___________ _ _____ __________ 540
Book Review .. ____________ _ .. __________ __ .. _. __ ______ . _________ 552
E1n Precliger mllali nieht alle1n wei-
den, also dass er die Schafe unter-
weise, m e sle rechte Christen sollen
scln, sondem auch daneben den Woel-
f en weh,.en, dass sle die Schafe nlcht
angrelfen und mit fallCher Lehre ver-
fuehren und Irrtum elnfuehren.
Luther
Es 1st keln Ding, das die Leute
mehr bel der Klrche behaelt denn
cIle gute Precllgt. - Apologie, An. 24
II the trumpet give an uncertain
sound, who shall prepare himself to
the battle? -1 C01'.14:8
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Theological Monthly
Vol. XVIII JULY, 1947 No.7
Ludwig Ernest Fuerbringer, 1864 -' 1947
In the early morning of Tuesday, May 6, the Lord called
Dr. Ludwig Ernest Fuerbringer to his eternal rest. More than
fourscore years he was permitted to live and labor on this earth.
His ministerial training he received at Concordia College, Fort
Wayne, and at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. After a pastorate
at Frankenmuth, Mich., from 1885 to 1893, he served on the faculty
of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, for a period of fifty years. The
theological faculty of our sister synod in Australia honored him
with the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and Valparaiso with the
degree of Doctor of Letters. Besides his work in the classroom
at the Seminary, he for more than forty-five years (1896---1912;
1917-1947), until a few weeks before his departure, edited Der
Lutheraner. Most conscientiously and diligently he devoted him-
self to these two tasks as his life's chief work. For many years
he was Synod's Corresponding Secretary for Foreign Relations;
President of the Synodical Conference; he also served on synodical
boards, such as the Board of Foreign Missions, the Committee on
Constitutional Matters, the Committee on Higher Education, and
the Committee of Hymnology and Liturgics. For many years he
edited Synod's Statistical Yearbook. He also edited Dr. Walthers
Briefe, Men and Missions Series, Die evangelischen Perikopen des
Kirchenjahrs, two editions of M. Guenther, Populaere Symbolik.
Among his own writings ~ay be mentioned: Theologische Her-
meneutik, Liturgik, Einleitung in das Alte Testament, Einleitung
in das Neue Testament, a brief commentary on the Book of Job,
and Eighty Eventful Years (his autobiography). Dr. Fuerbringer
was a frequent contributor to Lehre und Wehre and to its suc-
cessor, the CONCORDIA THEOLOGICAL MONTHLY, to which he con-
tributed the following articles:
Paulus in Athen. I, 735 ff.; 804 ff.
Dr. F. Bente als Theolog. II, 416 ff.
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482 LUDWIG ERNEST FUERBRINGER, 1864-1947
A Page from Dr. Fuerbringer's Commonplace Book
Though Dr. Fuerbringer was blessed with a phenomenal memory, he
carefully noted choice morsels in his commonplace book. We found a
bookmark at the page which is herewith reproduced as a memorial to
a Christian scholar
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