LUTHERAN QUARTERLY

VDMA: Verbum Domini Manet in Aeternum . . . the Word of the Lord remains forever.

SUMMER 2002 Issue

Volume XVI, Number 2

Is Advent preaching primarily for preparation or for proclamation?  Exploring the vast holdings of the Herzog-August-Bibliothek in Wolfenbuttel, Mary Jane Haemig found a clear difference between Roman Catholic and Lutheran preachers on this point in the sixteenth century.  Haemig studied at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and then Harvard University under Mark Edwards, and teaches Reformation church history at Luther Seminary, 2481 Como Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108.

Who was Walter E. Buszin? Lutheran church musicians and musicologists may know different aspects of his work: teacher at Bethany College and Concordia College-Ft. Wayne, briefly at River Forest, decisively at Concordia-St. Louis; scholar and author on Luther, Johann Walter, J.S. Bach, and much more; editor and publisher of musical scores, especially by Walter and Bach. Beyond Lutheran borders, Robin A. Leaver surveys Buszin’s multi-faceted career in appreciative detail. Leaver, one of Lutheran Quarterly’s most frequent contributors, teaches at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540-3899.

In this issue, our ‘‘Luther on . . .’’ series turns to language. Dennis Bielfeldt first presents the Reformer’s famous concern for biblical language in clear translation and his theological conviction about the proclamatory force of the Word. Then with philosophical semantics and nominalism, the subject becomes more complex. Bielfeldt teaches philosophy and theology at South Dakota State University,  504 Scobey Hall, Brookings, SD 57007.

Under our occasional heading ‘‘Texts, for the Record,’’ J. Paul Rajashekar and Timothy J. Wengert introduce and translate Philip Melanchthon’s  ‘‘Preface to the Latin Translation of the Koran.’’ As they note, Luther on this subject has been covered (by Rajashekar himself in the Luther-Jahrbuch and by Gregory Miller in our Spring issue, among others), but Melanchthon’s preface has never before been published in English translation. Then Wengert introduces and translates a  ordination certificate for a particular case of supervisory ministry.  Rajashekar and Wengert both teach at The Lutheran Theological Seminary, 7301 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19119.