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Article: Symbolism: Exposition of the Doctrinal Differences Between Catholics and Protestants as Evidenced by Their Symbolical Writings.(Review)
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- Journal of Ecumenical Studies
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- March 22, 1998
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Johann Adam Mohler (d. 1838). Tr. James Burton Robertson. Intro. Michael J. Himes. Milestones in Catholic Theology. A Crossroad Herder Book. New York: Crossroad Publishing Co., 1997 (orig.: Symbolik, order, Darstellung der dogmatischen Gegensatze Katholiken und Protestanten nach ihren offentlichen Bekenntnisschriften [1832]). Pp. 513. $29.95, paper.
Himes's useful introduction to this reprint of Mohler's Symbolik in Robinson's 1843 translation acknowledges the difficulty of adequately Anglicizing the German title but helpfully puts the reader's focus on the remarkable quality of the content, which anticipates some significant twentieth-century developments in ...