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Excerpt from Christian Worship, Its Principles and Forms IT is hoped that the present work will be found to supply a want in our theological literature. So far as is known to the authors, there is no work in English that covers the same ground. Yet the interest in liturgics at the present time seems to demand a work treating of the principles and forms of worship in different ages of the Church. Without this general survey of the field, there can hardly be a thoroughly intelligent discussion of liturgical questions. It is believed that the subject as treated in the present volume will be found not only of special interest but also of practical im portance. The work is so arranged as to make, in convenient, sum mary form, a history of worship. In German, so rich in every department of theological literature, the subject has been frequently and ably treated. With the leading German authorities in hand, to many of which reference is made in this work, there is embarrassment from the abundance of materials. While following in the main the general outline of German histories of worship, the present work differs from them in the omission of unimportant details, in the full ness with which a number of typical liturgies are given, and in the relative prominence assigned to worship in the Luth eran Church. The authors have been less anxious to bring forward their own opinions than to furnish the means by which others might be enabled to form independent and' trustworthy judgments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from The Formative Principle of Protestantism Paul to the Galatians, as this book shows me to haye been. And yet I perceive that all these cogitations, brought together with so much diligence by the brethren into this book, are mine, so that I must needs confess that all, or even more, was said by'me in public lectures. For in my heart this article alone reigns, viz., the faith of Christ, from whom, through whom, and to whom my theological meditations flow and re flow continually. And yet I perceive that I have not attained to such great height, breadth, depth of wisdom; only certain weak, poor beginnings and, as it were, fragments appear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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James William Richard was born on Feburary 14, 1843 near Winchester, Virginia. He was the son of Henry P. Richard, frontier farmer, and his wife Marget Rosenberger, his German forebears having settled in the eighteenth century in the Shenandoah Valley.
He attended Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia, from 1861 to 1862, John Marvin's private school near Winchester in 1863, and taught in Hagerstown, Maryland, the following year. He was graduated from Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1868, and from the Gettysburg Theological Seminary in 1871.
He was ordained by the Northern Illinois Synod and was pastor in Empire, Illinois, from 1871 to 1873. He taught Latin and history in Carthage College, Carthage, Illinois, 1873-83; was secretary of the Board of Church Extension of the Lutheran General Synod, 1883-85; taught theology in Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, 1885-88, and in Gettysburg Theological Seminary, from January 1889 until his death.
At the time he went as professor to Gettysburg, there was a tendency in his own synod to regard its nearest rival, the General Council, with a strong faculty at Mount Airy, Pa. , as possessor of a more consistent and historic Lutheranism than that which the General Synod represented. As time went on, changes were advocated in liturgy and confessional basis for the sake of immediate comity and a possible future merger. Richard, well at home in ecclesiastical Latin and German, the languages of the period of the Reformation, accepted the challenge as an historian.
His opposition to the common service movement and a presentation of his own views on liturgy are found in the Quarterly, January and July 1890, and January 1891, and later were summarized in the book Christian Worship: Its Principles and Forms, written jointly by himself and F. V. N. Painter. His views concerning the history of the Augsburg Confession and other creedal documents accepted in various parts of the Lutheran Church, found expression from time to time in the Quarterly and were later embodied in his book, Philip Melanchthon (1898), and his monumental work, The Confessional History of the Lutheran Church (1909), the most original and scholarly work up to that time penned by a Lutheran theologian in America.
Death overtook him before he could read the final proofs of the book. To him history was not an arsenal in polemics, but he nevertheless frequently reaped hostility instead of gratitude for his work.
He was devoted to German scholarship, often visiting Europe, particularly Germany, and was influential in sending several of his best students to continue graduate work in German universities.
At his death his valuable library was given to the institution which he had faithfully served, not without periods of profound sadness, for twenty years.
Prior to coming to the Gettysburg seminary he had written twelve articles for the Lutheran Quarterly published in that city; he now wrote about fifty more - a total of 1800 pages, besides numerous book reviews. Contributions from his pen also found their way to the Andover Review, Methodist Review, Bibliotheca Sacra, Christian Literature Magazine, American Journal of Theology, and especially the Lutheran Observer. They bore mainly on historical ecclesiastical theology, the weightier ones championing in a nonsectarian spirit the theology of the early Reformation and dealing with questions of liturgy, creeds, and confessional subscription.
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He was an indefatigable worker, an excellent lecturer, kind and courteous, militant against all insincerity, and feared by the church politicians who made three unsuccessful attempts to deprive him of his chair at the college.
He was twice married, first, on June 19, 1872, to Matilda Emeline Tressler, who died in 1889, and second, on March 31, 1891, to Marie E. Coffinberry, who survived him.
