Concordia Theological Monthly
Article Title
Publication Date
11-1-1943
Document Type
Article
Keywords
unionism, doctrine, lutherans, melanchthon, reformed, unionists, faith, justification, augsburg confession, christendom, leipzig
Submission Type
Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep
Abstract
"Interim hat den Schalk hinter ihm!" When the attempt was made to reconcile Lutheranism and Catholicism by means of the Augsburg Interim, the Lutheran laymen rose in their might and declared: "Selig ist der Mann, Der Gott vertrauen kann Und willgt nicht ins Interim, Denn es hat den Schalk hinter ihm!" "Of the Interim beware, For a knave is hiding there." (Hurst, History of the Christian Church, II, p. 217.) When Melanchthon and others offered the Church a modified form of this union document in the Leipzig Interim, 1548, the Lutherans at once detected the same knave hiding there. And whenever and wherever unionism works on the Church, in whatever form or shape, there is knavery at work. - No discussion of unionism would be complete without a chapter on the dishonesty of it.
Disciplines
Practical Theology
Submission Cost
Free
Submission Audience
Laity; Ministers; Scholars
Recommended Citation
Engelder, Th.
(1943)
"The Reunion of Christendom,"
Concordia Theological Monthly: Vol. 14, Article 64.
Available at:
https://scholar.csl.edu/ctm/vol14/iss1/64
