New Module - Luther’s Church Postil
Written by Michael Hanel on December 17th, 2009Spawned by the quarter-break at classes, I decided to busy myself by putting together a module that I thought would be appreciated by a lot of people out there at this time of year, a compendium of Martin Luther’s Church Postil. This particular set is quite old and is found on numerous sites online, but the site from which I drew upon is here.
As is written there, “The following sermons of Martin Luther are taken from The Sermons of Martin Luther, published by Baker Book House (Grand Rapids, MI), 1983. This 8 volume set was itself a reprint of John Nicholas Lenker translation of Luther’s Church Postil. Lenker’s edition originally appeared in 1905 - as “The Precious and Sacred Writings of Martin Luther,” volumes 1-14, published by Lutherans in all Lands. These sermons were scanned and edited by The Dr. Richard Bucher and are in the public domain.”
This collection includes 117 of Luther’s Sermons from the Church Year. It is a great treasure of Luther’s thought and may be especially helpful to pastors as they work through the lectionary.
This is a quick release. I’m looking into tagging the text so that Bible verses show pop ups but that will be the task for many other days.
DOWNLOAD! - unzip to \databases\ subdirectory of BibleWorks and will show up upon re-start of BibleWorks under menu item “Resources: Lutheran Resources: Luther, Martin - Church Postil”
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Dear Mike,
Given that many of the readers of your excellent blog would have older versions of BW than the current one, would you please indicate on your posts the compatibility of various modules, add-ins, etc. with the various versions?
Cheers
Pete
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Peter, Modules work in BW7 and BW8. But since the files themselves are HTML Help format, they work even if you do not have BibleWorks.
Versions work theoretically in any version of BibleWorks. I say theoretically because some versions have version names that are more than 3 letters. I forget what version of BibleWorks changed this rule, maybe 6 or 7? Otherwise if you change them to 3 letters, they would also work in every version.
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Hi,
Thanks for your thoughtfulness in making this module available. I have XP Home SP3 and IE8 and the module will download and be extracted to the databases directory and it will open to a list of contents but nothing can be displayed. Perhaps, it is a conflict with IE 8. Kretzmann & Chrysostom open just fine. The message I get when I try to open one of Luther’s is: “Navigation to the web page is cancelled.”
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Spoke too soon. I had to “unblock” both files and it works fine. Sorry.