Amerikanisch-Lutherische Evangelien Postille : Predigten über die evangelischen Perikopen des kirchenjahrs
St Louis MO: Lutherischer Concordia Verlag, 1887.
Illustrated by Portrait Frontispiece. Elfte Auflage. Hardcover. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Item #15044
1" spine head chip, cocked, shelfworn, edge foxing, 1894 gift inscription, otherwise light wear. Solid oversize hardcover.; German language, fraktur. Half leather with chagrin boards, gilt spine lettering decor and rulings. Elfte auflage, 11th edition. Undated circa late 1880s/1890s as Walther's Evangelical Lutheran Bible Society was merged into the Lutherischer Concordia Verlag in 1887; there is an 1894 gift inscription on the front flyleaf. "Even though Walther did not seem to be a very situational theologian, especially in his works on pastoral theology and in his sermons he was well aware of the fact that he was teaching and preaching in a specific national and social context." - Christoph Barnbrock; "Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther"; page 227. Later printing of the first collection of sermons by the first president of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) and its most influential theologian, C F W Walther. ; vi, 404 pages.
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