Sunday, November 16, 2014

From the Hardt. . .

The Rev. Fr. Tom G. Hardt (+June 1998) of blessed memory has spoken well and exhaustively with respect to the Lord's Supper in Confessional Lutheranism.  His expertise and careful scholarship have given to Lutherans great blessing as well as much for us to ponder.

This has been made a gift to the us all by the faithfulness of First Trinity, Pittsburgh, PA,  and lies under the custodianship of Erling Teigen.  Please read and take care to honor the conditions on which his contribution has been made available.  No part of this document is to be further published or disseminated by any means without the express permission of Erling T. Teigen, 314 Pearl St., Mankato MN 56001 (e-mail: 74022.2447@Compuserve.com ).  The text is available here.

Completed in 1971, Dr. Tom G. A. Hardt was pastor of St. Martin’s Lutheran Church, Stockholm.  His faithful witness in the face of the Swedish Lutheran Church's liberalism is heroic and all Confessional Lutherans owe him a debt of gratitude.  Noteworthy is his honor of the sainted Dr. Robert Preus as friend and his dedication to the sainted Hermann Sasse.  

If you are Lutheran and want to read one of the most thorough and careful treatments of the Lord's Supper available to us, this is the document to read. 

3 comments:

Janis Williams said...

Thank you, Fr. Peters, and thank you, Mr. Teigen!

jgernander said...

Rev. Teigen. He is an ordained theology professor at Bethany Lutheran College.

James Kellerman said...

While I always enjoy reading Hardt, even in a condensed form, the best thing I read was at the very end: at long last Thom Hardt's dissertation will be translated into English! I read it many years ago in Swedish and thought that it deserved translation into English.