Altlutheraner

As I gathered from a hostile report by a nineteenth century Copernican, in 1873 the Missouri Synod’s Concordia Publishing House published Prof. Johann Christoph Wilhelm Lindemann’s short Astronomical Conversation. And this Copernican describes Lindemann’s writing as the most bitter attack “on the whole modern system of astronomy”; we even learn that the Lutheran Church, in contrast to Rome, insists upon the inerrancy of Scripture even in scientific matters (“this late survival of an ancient belief based upon text-worship is found not in the teachings of any zealous priest of the mother Church, but in those of an eminent professor in that branch of Protestantism which claims special enlightenment”). Now after this great praise, how could I not read this Christian work for myself, to the strengthening of my faith, which is constantly under attack by the proponents of the “assured results of science”? And that this work’s value may ever increase, C. F. W. Walther gave the following judgment on it: “Whoever wants to be enlightened in the points of the newer solar system should read this pamphlet, and he will find full satisfaction.” Because all modern Christians now deny the teaching of Scripture, that the Earth is perfectly still, with the Sun moving around it, and because the only presently available English translation is, in some places, quite inadequate, I now present a free English Astronomical Conversation, which can also be found here.