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Fall 2020

In This Issue:

The Future of Evangelical Catholic Lutheranism by Carl Braaten
Evangelical Catholicism and the Retrieval of the Great Tradition by Christine Helmer
The Ecumenical Task of Evangelical Catholicism by Br. Richard George Herbel
Do Evangelical Catholics Need Tradition? A Lutheran Reflection by Thomas D. Pearson
A Hermeneutic for Evangelical Catholics by Mark Ellington
Lutheran, Evangelical and Catholic: Four Desiderata by Larry Rinehart
...and much, much more!

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Fundamental Instruction: Justus Falckner’s Catechism

by Justus Falckner

Martin Kessler, ed. & translator

Fundamental Instruction: Justus Falckner’s Catechism (1708) is the first Lutheran catechism written and published in North America. This volume introduces an obscure colonial Lutheran theologian, provides a succinct modern survey of his catechism, reprints Falckner’s own personal introduction of the book in a public address given March 25, 1708, and then transcribes the actual text of the catechetical work. This first English translation of the original Grondlycke Onderricht marks the tercentennial of Justus Falckner’s ordination on November 24, 1703, held at Gloria Dei Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and includes reproductions from the only surviving copy of the original Dutch manuscript done by William Bradford in New York City in 1708.