John Donne, Holy Sonnets 5 & 6: V I am a little world made cunningly Of Elements, and an Angelike spright, But black sinne hath betraid to endlesse night My worlds both parts, and (oh) both parts must die. You which beyond that heaven which was most high Have found new sphears, and of new [...]
Wednesdays with Augustine Sermon LXXXVIII. [CXXXVIII. Ben.] On the words of the Gospel, John x. 14, “I am the good shepherd,” etc. Against the Donatists. 1. We have heard the Lord Jesus setting forth to us the office of a good shepherd. And herein He hath doubtless given us to know, as we may understand [...]
“C.F.W. Walther was one of the most important Lutheran theologians in America and a significant figure in nineteenth century Christian history. So, to honor the 200th anniversary of his birth, Concordia Publishing House (CPH) is promoting the study of Lutheran Confessional theology (16th century to present), its history, and its application in congregational life. To [...]
John Donne, Holy Sonnets 3 & 4: III O might those sighes and teares returne againe Into my breast and eyes, which I have spent, That I might in this holy discontent Mourne with some fruit, as I have mourn’d in vaine; In mine Idolatry what showres of raine Mine eyes did waste? what griefs [...]
Tuesdays with Forde This lecture was given as one of four faculty presentations at a brief Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary symposium on April 24, 1984. It has been transcribed from a tape recording. How does the Word of God establish its authority over us? The Word of God establishes its authority over us by virtue [...]
For Holy Week, we will be featuring the Holy Sonnets of John Donne. For today, Sonnets 1 & 2. I THOU hast made me, And shall thy worke decay? Repaire me now, for now mine end doth haste, I runne to death, and death meets me as fast, And all my pleasures are like yesterday; [...]
Mondays with Martin The following are Luther’s comments on the Lord’s Supper from the Hazlitt translation of Luther’s Table Talk (Philadelphia: The Lutheran Publication Society, 1848). CCCLVI. The blindness of the papists is great and mischievous; for they will neither believe the Gospel nor yield thereunto, but boast of the church and say: She has [...]
Holbein’s painting, “Christ Taken Down From the Cross,” inspired this description taken from Fyoder Doestoevsky’s The Idiot. A copy of the painting hanging in Rogozhin’s house is first mentioned in an exchange between him and Prince Myshkin over its effect on their faith. The impression the original made on Dostoyevsky’s is more fully told in the Foreword. [...]
BWV 3 Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid Second Sunday after Epiphany. Poet unknown. 1. Martin Moller, verse 1 of the hymn, 1587, after Bernard of Clairvaux, “Jesu dulcis memoria” (Wackernagel, I, #38); 2. verse 2 with interpolated recitative; 3-5. based freely on verses 3-7, 10, 15, and 16; 6. verse 18 of the hymn. 14 [...]
