Comparison of Editions of Gerhard’s Loci
COMPARISON OF EDITIONS OF GERHARD’S LOCI
Title
*
On the Nature of Theology (Exegesis)
E preface
E preface
Preface
On Holy Scripture (Exegesis)
E1
E1
1
On the Nature of God (Exegesis)
E2
E2
2
On the Most Holy Mystery of the Trinity (Exegesis)
E3
E3
3
On the Person and Office of Christ (Exegesis)
E4
E4
4
On Holy Scripture
1
1
On the Interpretation of Scripture
2
2
On the Nature of God
3
3
On the Three Elohim
4
4
On God the Father and His Eternal Son
5
4, part 2
On the Holy Spirit
6
5, part 3 [!]
On the Person and Office of Christ
7
5
On Creation and Angels
8
6
5
On Providence
9
7
6
On Election and Reprobation
10
8
7
On the Image of God in Man before the Fall
11
9
8
On Original Sin
12
10
9
On Actual Sins
13
11
10
On Free Choice
14
12
11
On the Law of God
15
13
12
On the Ceremonial and Forensic Laws
16
14
13
On the Gospel
17
15
14
On Repentance
18
16
15
On Justification through Faith
19
17
16
On Good Works
20
18
17
On the Sacraments
21
19
18
On Circumcision and the Paschal Lamb
22
20
19
On Holy Baptism
23
21
20
On the Holy Supper
24
22
21
On the Church
25
23
22
On the Ecclesiastical Ministry
26
24
23
On Political Magistracy
27
25
24
On Marriage, Celibacy, and Similar Topics
28
26
25
On Death
29
27
26
On the Resurrection of the Dead
30
28
27
On the Last Judgment
31
29
28
On the End of the World
32
30
29
On Hell, or Eternal Death
33
31
30
On Eternal Life
34
32
31
* The Jena ed. (1610) has the same enumeration, except that it lacks the Exegesis. Our edition follows this enumeration as well.
1 Johann Gerhard, Locorum Theologicorum. . . Tomus Tertius: In quo continentur haec Capita: 15. De Lege Morali. 16. De Legibus Ceremonialibus & Forensibus. 17. De Evangelio. 18. De Poenitentia. 19. De Justificatione per Fidem. (Jena: Tobias Steinmann, 1613). On Gerhard’s activities leading up to 1613, see Johann Gerhard, On the Law, trans. Richard J. Dinda, Theological Commonplaces XV–XVI (St. Louis: Concordia, 2015), ix.
2 On the practice of disputations in the era of Lutheran Orthodoxy, see Kenneth G. Appold, Orthodoxie als Konsensbildung: Das theologische Disputationswesen an der Universität Wittenberg zwischen 1570 und 1710 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004).
3 Disputatio Theologica De Altera Doctrinae Coelestis Parte, Videlicet Evangelio (6 leaves) and Disputatio Theologica De Poenitentia (6 leaves).
4 Johann Gerhard, Aphorismi Succincti Et Selecti, In Viginti Tribus Capitibus, totius Theologiae nucleum continentes: Ad Usum Disputationum Scholasticarum Accommodati & conscripti (Jena: Tobias Steinmann, 1611; repr., [Jena]: typis Joh. Jacobi Bauhöferi, [1663]), fols. [I6]v–Mv. This volume was published for students as an overview of theology, and it contains the theses of the disputations that Gerhard held at Coburg, though the list of “disputants” in the Aphorisms does not match the names of the respondents on the title pages of the previously printed disputation theses (see 1663 ed., fols. b3r–b3v, [b4]r).
5 See below, On the Gospel (Commonplace XVII), § 6.
6 Renatus Hupfeld, Die Ethik Johann Gerhards (Berlin: Trowitzsch & Sohn, 1908), 119–20.
7 See below, On the Gospel (Commonplace XVII), §§ 119–126.
8 The Latin word that Gerhard uses for both “Testament” as a part of the Bible and “testament” as a synonym of “covenant” [ foedus] is always testamentum. These Latin words ( foedus and testamentum) are synonyms, though the latter has other meanings besides “covenant.”
9 Hans-Martin Barth, “Gesetz und Evangelium I,” Theologische Realenzyklopädie 13:126–27; Hupfeld, Die Ethik Johann Gerhards, 119–23.
10 Aphorismi 12.1, fol. [I6]v.
11 Aphorismi 12.8, fol. [I6]v.
12 See below, On Repentance (Commonplace XVIII), §§ 1–2.
13 Aphorismi 13.1–2, fol. [K8]v.
14 See below, On Repentance (Commonplace XVIII), § 1.
15 Johann Gerhard, Schola Pietatis, Oder Ubung der Gottseeligkeit, ed. Johann Georg Walch (Nürnberg: in Verlegung W. M. Endters seel. Töchter & J. A. Engelbrechts seel. Wittib., 1736), 4–7; Elmer Hohle, trans., Schola Pietatis (1623) (Malone, TX: Repristination Press, 2006), 1:7–12; Hupfeld, Die Ethik Johann Gerhards, 8–9; Johann Anselm Steiger, Johann Gerhard (1582–1637): Studien zu Theologie und Frömmigkeit des Kirchenvaters der lutherischen Orthodoxie (Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1997), 44.
16 See below, On Repentance (Commonplace XVIII), §§ 11, 35.
17 Heinrich Schmid, The Doctrinal Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, 3rd rev. ed., trans. Charles A. Hay and Henry E. Jacobs (Philadelphia: United Lutheran Publication House, 1875), 468–69; Gerhard, On Repentance (Commonplace XVIII), §§ 53–55.
18 Hupfeld repeatedly emphasizes this fact, but at one point he claims that Gerhard’s doctrine of conversion (i.e., repentance) has synergistic tendencies. Yet, he says, taken as a whole, Gerhard’s doctrine clearly defines that salvation is worked by God alone and is something to which man by his own powers can contribute nothing. See Hupfeld, Die Ethik Johann Gerhards, 140.
19 On Repentance (Commonplace XVIII), §§ 99–100.
20 Aphorismi 13.68, fol. [L7]v–[L8]r; On Repentance (Commonplace XVIII), § 101.
21 See above, p. xi n. 1. The Frankfurt/Hamburg edition is: Loci Theologici. . . Ab Autore Ipso Revisi Et Loci Innumeris aucti. . . In Novem Tomos Et Exegesin Divisi (Francofurti & Hamburgi: sumptibus Zachariae Hertelii, 1657).