Festive Sounds Book

This collection of Festival Sermons of C.F.W. Walther (1811-1887), first president of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, was compiled posthumously in 1892 under the title Festklaenge [in 473 pages] and is now available in English. The high feasts of the church year are represented with multiple sermons. This collection serves to reveal the depth of the meaning of these commemorations of Christ's saving works. Walther reminds us of the core meaning of Christ's works of salvation and shows us both the chief and secondary themes available his homiletic use as he stood on the shoulders of great preachers like Luther and others who are still not yet completely available to us in English. Themes such as theosis of mankind through the incarnation of God's Son and our gaining more in Christ than Adam and Eve lost by falling into sin are well beyond what many have heard in modern English preaching and are available to you now!