Lutheran Prayer Book: For the Use of Families and Individuals (Lutheran Devotional Resources) (Volume 2)
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The Lutheran Prayerbook is a compilation of prayers from a variety of Lutheran resources, compiled by Benjamin Kurtz. This volume contains a large selection of prayers on a multiplicity of subjects. It also includes a small catechism on family worship in the beginning. While Kurtz intended this book to be utilized by individuals, he also desired for its use in the daily practice of family worship. Despite Kurtz’s own views, which were sometimes less than Confessionally Lutheran, this handbook of prayer remains a beneficial resource for Christ’s church. This volume has been slightly edited for the modern reader.
Arguments, Derived From Sacred Scripture and Sound Reason, Exhibiting the Necessity and Advantages of Infant Baptism: And Proving Sprinkling or ... It, Together With a Number of Essays o
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The following pages have been written in obedience to a Resolution of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Maryland, and in accordance with the reiterated requests of personal friends.
In preparing them, it has been our uniform endeavor to concentrate the largest possible amount of conclusive evidence and useful information, within the narrowest limits; and also to adapt our language and reasoning to the capacity of the plain unlettered reader, in order thus to meet an important desideratum in the church.
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The Year-Book of the Reformation, 1844 (Classic Reprint)
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May HE Without whom nothing good can prosper, deign to sanction with his blessing our efforts to promote the cause of truth.
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Why are you a Lutheran? or, A series of dissertations, explanatory of the doctrines, government, discipline, liturgical economy, distinctive traits, ... Lutheran Church in the United States
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Benjamin Kurtz was an American Lutheran clergyman and editor. He was regarded as one of the most eloquent men of his time.
Background
Benjamin Kurtz was born on February 28, 1795 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Gardner) Kurtz. His grandfather, John Nicholas Kurtz, the son of a parochial teacher near Giessen, was sent from Halle to Pennsylvania as a catechist in 1745 and was the first minister ordained (1748) by the Ministerium of Pennsylvania.
Education
At eighteen Kurtz began to study theology under John George Lochman at Lebanon.
Career
At fifteen Kurtz was employed as an assistant in the Harrisburg Academy. He was licensed at Frederick, Maryland, in 1815 by the Ministerium of Pennsylvania; was assistant to his uncle, John Daniel Kurtz, in Baltimore for a short time; was pastor at Hagerstown, Maryland, 1815-31, and at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, 1831-33, and was editor of the Lutheran Observer in Baltimore, 1833-58.
As a pastor and preacher he was extraordinarily successful, and his position in Washington County, Maryland, was almost that of a bishop.
In 1826 he went to Europe to collect money and books for the Gettysburg Seminary. For a time he was stranded in London without funds. In Germany he was received with interest and respect and secured contributions from the Crown Prince of Prussia, the King of Wurttemberg, and the Dukes of Cumberland and Cambridge. Among the clergymen who sought him out was Martin Stephan, who was to lead a colony of Saxon Lutherans to Missouri. Kurtz's mission realized $10, 000, gifts of fine needlework that sold for an additional $2, 000, and some 6, 000 books. When hemorrhages of the lungs forced him out of the active ministry, he accepted the invitation of John Gottlieb Morris to assume the editorship of the Observer and made that paper a power in the church.
He advocated a union of the Lutheran and German Reformed Churches. His doctrinal position is fully set forth in his chief book, Why Are You a Lutheran? (1843), which went through ten editions.
In 1846 he visited Europe again as a delegate to the first meeting of the Evangelical Alliance.
When the Maryland Synod grew too orthodox for him, he withdrew, together with a handful of followers, and on December 1, 1857, at Middletown, Maryland, organized the Melanchthon Synod, which was reabsorbed into the parent body in 1868. Kurtz wrote the Melanchthon Synod's "Declaration of Faith, " in which baptismal regeneration, the Real Presence in the Eucharist, and other "errors" of the Augsburg Confession were repudiated.
In 1858 he made his most grievous mistake, the founding of the Missionary Institute at Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, which poured into the Lutheran Church a stream of quarter-educated ministers.
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Views
In spite of much opposition Kurtz advocated temperance reform and introduced English services, prayer meetings, revivals, Sunday schools, and educational and benevolent societies into his congregations.
He was against liturgical worship and the Lutheran confessions.
He championed S. S. Schmucker's "Definite Synodical Platform" in 1855 and was the first to admit any knowledge of its origin.
Personality
In person Kurtz was lank and cadaverous, with a huge, hawk-like nose, and a forbidding manner. He was a witty, entertaining talker, but could not listen to the talk, or the sermons, of other ministers. By the Old Lutherans he was feared, disliked, and denounced; by his own party he was admired.
His knowledge of theology was limited, but he was strongly evangelical, plainspoken, and fearless.
Connections
Kurtz was married three times: to Ann Barnett of Washington County, Maryland, to Mary Catharine Baker of Winchester, Virginia, and to Mary Calhoun of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Of his ten children only five survived him.