The Box of Concord
Here’s a little box painted to look like the Book of Concord:
And, from another angle:
In real terms, this box is only 2 3/4 by 3 1/2 inches. It’s tiny!
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April 2nd, 2007 @ 5:14 pm
Is it blue or black then? Very cool–lettering that tiny would be difficult to do!
April 2nd, 2007 @ 5:41 pm
It’s a dark blue… I believe it’s somewhere between those two colors, which is why I put both a flash and non-flash photo up.
The lettering was absolute murder. The tiniest letters are a couple of millimeters tall.
April 2nd, 2007 @ 6:34 pm
I’m very proud to say that I have one on my bookshelf at home, making feel guilty for not posting this to my web site sooner. You beat me to it. Thanks again for the wonderful gift.
April 2nd, 2007 @ 9:45 pm
Hi Kelly,
That is a REAL Masterpiece you have created. With the beauty of it, how can we put an order in for one for ourself?
I know you are REALLY busy right now preparing for other things. You continue to be in our thoughts and prayers!!!
YIC,
Darian L. Hybl
April 2nd, 2007 @ 10:00 pm
Now that’s what I call small catechism!
Awesome job. What would such a box hold? Pastor’s cross?
April 3rd, 2007 @ 12:53 am
Darian: Thanks for the compliment. However, I don’t think you’d want to pay what that little thing is worth in hours of invested time, just to get a little box out of the deal.
This is likely to stay “one of a kind.” On the other hand, some of those “other things” I’m now preparing for do involve other art projects. There’s a juried art show coming up and I’m working on a couple of new paintings for that. A different genre altogether from the liturgical exhibit; I hope to submit a self-portrait and a flower close-up. I have until about the middle of April to finish them, but they’re coming along pretty well.
Dan: I’m not sure what this sort of box would hold. You’ll have to ask Paul McCain, I mailed it to him. I thought he probably deserved it, considering what he had to go through with that thing!
April 3rd, 2007 @ 6:47 am
wow–the emblem on the front is superb! You do wonderful work dear! Working on anything special for little Baby K? Just curious!
I’m looking forward to seeing your self-portrait and flower work…
April 4th, 2007 @ 9:05 am
*you’ve been tagged-come to my blog and see*
April 4th, 2007 @ 1:47 pm
Your attention to detail is amazing!!! Wish we could get to the art show. Is there a web-link coming from it?
April 4th, 2007 @ 5:23 pm
Here’s the link for the gallery show: http://www.kellyklages.com/galleryshow/
May 16th, 2007 @ 1:15 am
Every edition of the book of concord should be the size of yours and should only contain the words “Scripture alone” “Christ alone” and “Faith alone.” Instead, many Lutherans have missed the message of the book of concord and have placed it above scripture. It is as if they believe that “this is the book that says what the Bible meant to say”. It is trawled through by theologians who are hoping to net snippets which suit their arguments. (Have a look at your “B.O.C. link” to see what I mean). The book of concord says “Scripture alone”. So put it on the shelf, take out the Bible and read and put your “faith” in “Christ.”
May 29th, 2007 @ 5:40 pm
I am not aware of a single Lutheran who places the BoC above Scripture, but I don’t appreciate your assumption that I have, at any rate. You seem to be someone looking to start a drive-by blog argument. So be it…
Every edition of the BoC should say nothing but “Scripture alone, Christ alone, and faith alone”? I’m sure Emperor Charles and the pope would have been SO very impressed when, instead of an intelligent theological explanation of what the Lutherans were teaching, they received instead a bunch of people who just spouted “Grace alone, faith alone, Scripture alone!” instead of the Augsburg Confession. And instead of using a handy guide like the Small Catechism to explain some of the basic truths of the Bible, parents should just tell their young children, “Go by what the Bible says!” and throw an NIV at them without any sort of teaching? You write as someone who doesn’t actually know what the function of the BoC is or ever was.
The problem with your kind of fundamentalism is that ALL churches claim that “we just go by what the Bible teaches,” from the most liberal to the most conservative. That doesn’t tell you a thing about what such-and-such church actually believes, teaches and confesses. What the BoC, or any confessional statement, does is to explain exactly *what* we believe the Bible teaches. We adhere to the BoC because we believe it is in accord with Scripture, not because it’s above Scripture.
What we have in churches today is people who have no confessional allegiance whatsoever; in the name of a misunderstanding of the reformers’ “Scripture alone” motto, Christians have come to think that “Scripture alone” means “whatever I happen to think the Bible means while reading it in my room with a bunch of Joyce Meyers and Max Lucado books secretly shaping what I think it means, not to mention a bunch of vacuous CCM praise songs.” Theology is not understood or appreciated anymore. Any Christian bookstore with all of its dreck will tell you that.
One handy volume of intelligent theology is a heck of a lot better and more concise, in my opinion, than Christians quoting their endless stashes of inspirational reading material and Top 40 hits and unwittingly having that as their “creed.”