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Melanchthonian method as a guide to reading confessions of faith: the index of the Book of Concord and Late Reformation learning.

Horst Kunze, the contemporary German authority on indexing, writes, "An index is not a tool that has its own independent existence. It is an aid for the use of another literary object. It is like a signpost. Like a signpost it has no other purpose than to point the way in certain directions." (1) Indices seldom attract scholarly investigation. Casual users accept the index as a more or less objective guide to the contents of a book. However, the index prepared in 1580 for the initial publication of the Book of Concord, (2) appearing in several of its first printings, (3) was designed to point in specific directions, to cultivate a particular way for its primary audience to read ...

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