While Luther was touring the churches of Saxony from 1527-1528, he published for the edification and guidance of these churches a series of collections of sermons. Sermons that were intended to be read in the home as devotionals for the household were called Luther's House-Postils (or house sermons). Since then, these collections have become treasured devotionals ...
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Gerhard's 1606 Meditationes Sacre (Sacred Meditations) is considered a Christian devotional classic, an un-apologetic Biblical meditation on sin, death, redemption, and Christian living. Titles of his devotions include, "The Benefits of True Repentance," "The Certainty of our Salvation," "True Faith," "General Rules for Godly Living," "Self-Denial," "The Beatific Vision of God in Heaven," "The Transitoriness ...
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The full title of this text is “Treatise on the Holy Sacrament of Baptism”, taken from the Holmen edition of Works of Martin Luther. This edition also includes an introduction from C.M. Jacobs and end notes that match a forthcoming bibliography. Jacobs writes in his introduction to this essay, Published in November, 1519, and shortly afterward in ...
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The full title of this text is "A Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences", more popularly called the Ninety-Five Theses. In this edition also appears three explanatory letters written by Martin Luther: one to the Archbishop Albrecht of Mainz, one to John Staupitz, and the last to Pope Leo ...
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One of my hobbies has turned into finding important theological works in the public domain that have largely been forgotten, reformatting the text for MS Word and pdf in a far-more readable and useful format, and then providing them here on IntoTheWoods.org for free. Works that we've done this to have included C.F.W. Walther's ...
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I've decided to stop maintaining my other website, www.truthincontext.org, and I'm merging all of its content over onto this one. That means there'll be an aweful lot of content on this site now dealing with theology and Christian apologetics. In fact, at some point I'll also be moving all my old music onto this site ...
Logic is the art of how we think. Interestingly, we dedicate a good amount of energy in our educations to reading and writing (and, to a lesser degree, speaking). But we rarely have classes devoted to the hows and whys of thinking, except for the occasional semester for those of us that go to college. ...
Term (also called Aristotelian, or Classical) logic is attributed to Aristotle, and has been the central theory of logic for over two-thousand years. Only comparatively recently has this approach been overshadowed by predicate (or symbolic) logic. This is mainly because of the scientific and mathematical force behind the new approach. Logicians themselves write: "Modern symbolic logic ...
The greatest amount of 20th century logic scholarship was in the exploration and system-building of predicate (or symbolic) logic. Historically considered founded by Frege (1879) and made popular by Whitehead and Russell (1910), this is the dominant logical system taught in colleges today. Because of this, there are some excellent websites produced by major universities ...
Errors in reasoning can happen in two general ways: one can make a mistake in regards to the content of an argument (an informal fallacy), or one can make a mistake in regards to the form of an argument (a formal fallacy). Although this is how logicians generally understand these terms, there's plenty of overlap ...