Updated Apr 2020
When Thrivent stopped hosting free websites they failed to move the following documents to my new host, so these links do not work.
I hope to repost all of these articles when I can/
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- Arthur Carl Piepkorn
“Christ Today: His Presence in the Sacraments”
Lutheran World, 10:3 (July 1963): 267-287. Reprinted in The Church: The Selected Writings of Arthur Carl Piepkorn, ALPB Books, 1993, 139-162 (now out of print but now being reprinted in a second editon, out sometime during 2006).
http://members.aol.com/SemperRef/presence.html
THIS LINK NO LONGER WORKS. If you find one that does, please let the Director know about it. - Arthur Carl Piepkorn
The Conduct of the Service
Concordia Seminary Print Shop, Copyright 1965 (Revised Edition)
A PDF of this seminal monograph is now available from the Director of the ACP Center for Evangelical Catholicity gratis by email attachment. As Blessed Piepkorn states on page 1 “this is not a directory for a ‘liturgical’ service, or for an ‘unliturgical’ service, but “takes the rubrics as they read! Only as our pastors and parishes do likewise can our churches achieve the degree of unity in our services that practical experiences indicates is so desirable.” The Director will post the monograph on Piepkorn.org as soon as he can. In the mean time contact him at psecker###@snet.net. Remove the ###, which is there to foil web-crawlers. Posted 4/2020. - Arthur Carl Piepkorn
The Survival of the Historic Vestments in the Lutheran Church after 1555.
Second edition, Saint Louis: Concordia Seminary, 1958.
Copyright: School for Graduate Studies, Concordia Seminary, 1958.
http://anglicanhistory.org/lutherania/piepkorn/”
THIS LINK NO LONGER WORKS. If you find one that does, please let the Director know about it. Dr. Robin Leaver is putting out a new edition of the book based on the German edition and materials in the Piepkorn Papers found by the Director. - Original draft of “Arthur Carl Piepkorn, Confessor” without the changes made by a Lutheran Forum associate editor for the Fall 2004 issue. (7200 words, 16 pages)
- “May Only Ordained Ministers Distribute the Body and Blood of Our Lord in Holy Communion?” A brief but careful look at the meaning of “the distribution of the sacraments” in Augsburg 28, 5. (2 pages, 550 words)
- Recent articles by the Director
- Pastoral Conference/Bible Study Presentations
- Discussion Guide for Arthur Carl Piepkorn, “Possible Courses of Actions Involving a Disaffected or Dissident Individual or Group of Individuals Within a Congregation,” Concordia Theological Monthly, 42 (December 1971), pp. 726-730.
- Letters to the editor regarding Arthur Carl Piepkorn.
- “Piepkorn’s Understanding of Surd Evil” (tsunamis, etc.)This is the original version before it was edited by Forum Letter and printed in the March 2005 issue. There is a brief summary of the article on the “Tsunamis and Surd Evil” page.
- Other publications by the Director
- Tribute by his colleague Dr. Robert Bertram after Piepkorn’s death
- 1938 item on Piepkorn and weddings in Time Magazine