The hymn "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence" is a favorite of Lutherans and other Christians as well. In this article the author gives an outstanding explanation of the piece, its history and its melody. Listen to it here....

Hermeneutics are the "rules" by which one interprets the Bible. Everyone has them; and everyone, moreover, has a catechism which is the distillation and conclusions of one's interpretive / hermeneutical methods. Even the Fundamentalist who claims the Bible alone as his catechism betrays himself, and his hermeneutical methods the moment he underlines a passage, or notes wh...