The Lord's Supper in the Theology of Martin Chemnitz Bjarne - Logia

Foreword
to the electronic edition
For some time my siblings and I, along with Cousin Erling, had talked with
Dad about reprinting his book. He thought it was a good idea and wanted to
make it available to as many people as possible, at a low price.
Shortly before his death we suggested republishing it on the internet; he
was able to conceptualize the process and understood that by this means his
book might reach scholars worldwide at low cost. When he gave his consent
we began the process of having The Lord’s Supper in the Theology of Martin
Chemnitz republished, electronically.
The cost of the project could be kept low only because of Logia’s generous
offer to place the book on its website (www.logia.org) where it may be downloaded
at no cost.
Scanning the book, arranging the proper electronic format and putting
it on-line proved to be a complicated and time-consuming process, a process
which had to be performed by a human hand and brain. That brings me to the
purpose of this foreword to thank one of those behind-the-scenes people.
Many people made direct and indirect contributions to the reprint; we recognize
that, but feel one person, someone who contributed both to the first
printing and reprint, needs to be thanked publicly.
At first publication a group of people provided funds, and Trinity Lutheran
Church of Brewster, Massechusetts, served as publisher. After publication,
my brother Norman Teigen and his wife Judy set up a distribution center at
their home in Des Moines, Iowa, shipping copies to book stores, libraries and
hundreds of individuals.
When it came time for the reprint Norman accomplished the daunting task
of proofreading the electronically-scanned document in its entirety, comparing
the scanned text letter by letter and word for word to the original document.
Electromechanical devices such as a scanner make many mistakes; without
Norman’s diligence the reprint could not have been accomplished.
THANK YOU, NORMAN
To God alone the Glory
September, 2005 Colonel David H. Teigen
Lower Hay Lake, Minnesota
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