On Death, Part Two (Theological Commonplaces)

by Johann Gerhard

Publisher:

Concordia Publishing House

, 2024

Overview

This volume contains the second and final part of Johann Gerhard’s commonplace On Death, originally published in 1621 in the eighth volume of Gerhard’s Theological Commonplaces.

This volume approaches important topics pertaining to death, Christian faith, and pastoral care of souls, such as

the sleep of separated souls;

whether deceased saints are omnipotent or omnipresent;

whether the deceased saints preside over human affairs and especially those of the church;

whether the deceased saints should be invoked; and

the definition of death.

This volume also features certain meditations and prayers of the pious poured out to God at the end of life.

Key Features

• Contains the second and final part of Johann Gerhard’s commonplace.
• Approaches important topics pertaining to death, Christian faith, and pastoral care of souls.
• Features certain meditations and prayers of the pious poured out to God.

Product Details

• Title: On Death, Part Two
• Author: Johann Gerhard
• Series: Theological Commonplaces
• Volume: 2
• Publisher: Concordia Publishing House
• Print Publication Date: 2024
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 401
• Era: era:reformation
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Church › History of doctrines--17th century; Lutheran Church › Doctrines; Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint, 1542-1621
• ISBNs: 9780758674036, 0758674031
• Resource ID: LLS:THEOCMPLDTH2
• Resource Type: Systematic Theology
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-25T23:03:01Z

About Johann Gerhard

Johann Gerhard, (October 17, 1582 – August 10, 1637) was a Lutheran church leader and Lutheran Scholastic theologian during the period of Orthodoxy.