[EARLY AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH]. The Articles of Faith, of the Holy Evangelical Church, According to the Word of God, and the Augsburg Confession. Set forth in Forty Sermons
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- New York: J. Parker and W. Weyman (et al.), 1754
New York: J. Parker and W. Weyman (et al.), 1754. First Edition. Poor. 4to. 314 (i.e. 416) pp. (numerous errors in pagination), LACKING FIRST TWO LEAVES (including title-page). Browned throughout, some pages loose and/or frayed. As issued with: Whole System of the XXVIII Articles (New York: J. Parker and W. Weyman, 1755), lacking 3 ff. at end (pp. 27-32). Contemporary boards (very worn), leather spine (defective); SEE THE 23 IMAGES ON OUR WEBSITE. Preserved in a full morocco clamshell case. SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST MAJOR ARTICULATION OF LUTHERAN THEOLOGY PRINTED IN ENGLISH IN AMERICA, AND A TURNING POINT IN THE INTELLECTUAL FORMATION OF LUTHERANISM IN THE COLONIES.
Structured around the Augsburg Confession, Jochum Melchior Magens's translation was dedicated to the New York Evangelical Church (Flushing Queens, Jan. 31, 1754). Here Lutheran theology is deliberately presented in English to a colonial audience in sermon-length theological arguments. Printed by James Parker and William Weyman, it was issued serially before being bound.
Outside hymnals and cathechisms, the present text is second in American Lutheran printing history, following William Bradford's 1693 reprint of the 1686 Swedish Church Law (Church Order) entitled "Then Swenska Kyrkio-Ordningen" for the Swedish Lutheran churches of the Delaware Valley. Said book is institutional and legal, not theological, and was created for ecclesiastical governance. The 1754 Nakskov is explicitly doctrinal confession. It signals a movement toward English-speaking Lutheran identity. Between these two publications there is effectively a 50-year gap, with no identifiable Lutheran books (of a non-catechetical type) printed in America. Christopher Saur's Lutheran-relevant output before 1754 consists mainly of Bibles, hymnals, catechisms and devotional works.
COPIES AT AUCTION IN THE LAST CENTURY:
1. 2013: National Book Auctions (severely defective copy, lacking everything after p. 300)
2. 1963: Swann Galleries (binding damaged)
3. 1953: Parke-Bernet (binding damaged)
Evans 7262. Sabin 51735.
Structured around the Augsburg Confession, Jochum Melchior Magens's translation was dedicated to the New York Evangelical Church (Flushing Queens, Jan. 31, 1754). Here Lutheran theology is deliberately presented in English to a colonial audience in sermon-length theological arguments. Printed by James Parker and William Weyman, it was issued serially before being bound.
Outside hymnals and cathechisms, the present text is second in American Lutheran printing history, following William Bradford's 1693 reprint of the 1686 Swedish Church Law (Church Order) entitled "Then Swenska Kyrkio-Ordningen" for the Swedish Lutheran churches of the Delaware Valley. Said book is institutional and legal, not theological, and was created for ecclesiastical governance. The 1754 Nakskov is explicitly doctrinal confession. It signals a movement toward English-speaking Lutheran identity. Between these two publications there is effectively a 50-year gap, with no identifiable Lutheran books (of a non-catechetical type) printed in America. Christopher Saur's Lutheran-relevant output before 1754 consists mainly of Bibles, hymnals, catechisms and devotional works.
COPIES AT AUCTION IN THE LAST CENTURY:
1. 2013: National Book Auctions (severely defective copy, lacking everything after p. 300)
2. 1963: Swann Galleries (binding damaged)
3. 1953: Parke-Bernet (binding damaged)
Evans 7262. Sabin 51735.
Details
Title
[EARLY AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH]. The Articles of Faith, of the Holy Evangelical Church, According to the Word of God, and the Augsburg Confession. Set forth in Forty Sermons
Author
Nakskow, Petrus Sachariae
Condition
Poor
Publisher
J. Parker and W. Weyman (et al.): New York
Date
1754
Edition
First Edition