New David P. Scaer Book Available to Order
Without the Shedding of Blood is the latest book fom Rev. Dr. David P. Scaer and published by Ad Crucem
Without the Shedding of Blood is now available for order directly from Amazon or Ad Crucem. To learn more about the book in detail, please follow this link.
Some additional editing requirements delayed the book a month, but it has squeaked in for the revised publication date of May 1, 2024!
We thank Prof. Scaer and the editors for entrusting Ad Crucem with this project. We appreciate the contributors who made it possible and better.
Hardcover (298 pages)
from Ad Crucem: $18.00 (first deliveries start in June 2024)
Bulk order discounts are available starting with 25-unit minimums. The average price, including delivery, is $15 per unit, depending on the destination. Contact Ad Crucem to confirm final pricing and quantities.
Softcover (298 pages)
From Ad Crucem: $13.00 (first deliveries start in late May 2024).
Bulk order discounts are available starting with 25-unit minimums. The average price, including delivery, is $10 per unit, depending on the destination. Contact Ad Crucem to confirm final pricing and quantities.
Kindle from Amazon, $7.00 (currently available for pre-order - delivered from May 10, 2024).
Dedicated to the sober-minded young men in our seminaries who earnestly desire to reflect a pattern of good works and to have the utmost integrity, reverence, and incorruptibility in their doctrine.
Without the Shedding of Blood opens shortly before the LC-MS’s modernist controversy, which climaxed with the 1974 insurgency at St. Louis Seminary and the subsequent cancer of Seminex and its ELCA metastasis. Starting in 1972, Professor Scaer traces those developments and subsequent events when Concordia Theological Quarterly was still The Springfielder. He affords us a center-aisle front-row seat to a turbulent and formative period in the Synod’s history, which is why half the content dates from 1972-1978.Â
God saw fit to enable the LCMS to resist the Higher Criticism revenant. Still, too many familiar spirits were tolerated to remain resident to oppress, destabilize, and desensitize the host after Seminex. The second half of the essays, written and published in the present century, beginning in 2005, address those latter-day Seminex-adjacent hauntings.
What starts in the ivory towers as experiments dropping doctrinal microbes into Petri dishes soon enough develops chronic spiritual disease in the pews. Justification by faith alone has become a dime store vaccine for some factions; spiritual gene editing to innoculate the conscience against what is commanded by the Law, which Jesus came to fulfill rather than abolish1.
Indispensable
Without the Shedding of Blood is an essential addition for every library and critical in the fight against pervasive antinomian errors. It includes a fulsome index and bibliography, making it especially invaluable for all theologians.
Several reviews are forthcoming, and we will share them as soon as they are available.
Posters
The cover artwork from Lutheran artist Sam Novak is so wonderful that it deserves a poster. Poster sales help Ad Crucem offset the overhead and upfront costs incurred to bring the book into print.
32 x 40 inches, giclée, on canvas, matte paper, or glossy photo paper, $58.00 (including shipping to the lower 48 US states).
16 x 20 inches, giclée, on canvas, matte paper, or glossy photo paper, $24.00 (including shipping to the lower 48 US states).
8 x 10 inches, giclée, giclée, on canvas, matte paper, or glossy photo paper, $16.00 (including shipping to the lower 48 US states).