A Summary of the Christian Faith
This systematic theology, written from a confessional Lutheran perspective, is American theologian Henry Eyster Jacobs’ masterwork—a classic text studied by pastors, students, and laypeople since 1905. Unfolding in a catechetical format, the questions and answers lay out essential Lutheran doctrine. Jacobs offers Lutherans a “restatement of Lutheran doctrine in a form adapted to a new land and new age” and promotes understanding “not only of what is contained in our common heritage, but of the sources of strength whence our life may be renewed.” Using Scripture (the American Revised Version), the Lutheran confessions, and the writings of Lutheran Fathers, Jacobs provides concise definitions and condensed arguments on theological points. Complete with an appendix and two indexes, this text makes a valuable resource, allowing you to quickly look up specific points, or study its entirety and gain a full portrait of Lutheran theology. In the Logos edition, A Summary of the...
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“Cicero is not the name of a man,” declared Quintilian, “but of eloquence itself.” Cicero is to Latin what Shakespeare is to English. He is almost entirely responsible for developing Latin, at the time a narrow, utilitarian tongue, into a language capable of communicating the exactness of science, the beauty of poetry, and the abstraction of philosophy. Indeed, his influence is so far-reaching that many linguists argue that all the literary movements until the nineteenth century were either a reaction against or a return to Cicero. Born into an influential family and given a good education, he excelled at an early age. He travelled to Greece to learn from the Greek rhetoricians, adapting their style for Latin and making it a distinct part of his own delivery. He translated Greek philosophical concepts into Latin, creating neologisms that remain in use (e.g., humanitas, qualitas). His letters, when rediscovered by Petrarch in 1345, started the movement that became the Renaissance....
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