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August Vilmar's Theology Of Fact Versus The Theology Of Rhetoric, Martin Conkling
August Vilmar's Theology Of Fact Versus The Theology Of Rhetoric, Martin Conkling
Master of Sacred Theology Seminar Papers
The work and theology of August Vilmar has largely been neglected in this country even though he was a prominenet theologian who lent substantial weight in a momentous effort to resurrect and restore the Lutheran confessions- to Germany in the first half of the nineteenth century. This translation is an attempt to recognize the vast contributions which Vilmar made to this effort and to identify those writings which would serve the church well today. Vilmar left no school of thought or method behind him as other great figures in the German universities often did. There are many reasons for this …