For search instructions see the "Vol 2: Computerized Searchs" page.

There are many reasons why it is better to read Volume 2 before you read Volume 1:
1) One needs to know how our Church views the Sacred Scriptures and the Lutheran Confessions before looking at specific doctrines.
2) Volume 2 has a more complete biography of Piepkorn and a more extensive introduction.
3) All foreign language in the text and important foreign language in the notes has been transalted.
4) An errata (available free from me by email attachment) is essential to read Volume 1. None is needed for volume 2 as the few typos in it can all be figured out.

If you order both volumes from me at the same time, I will give you a $3.00 discount:
Price separately = $45.00 with S&H included.
Both ordered at the same sime - $42.00 with S&H included.

Pr. Heath C. Curtis has recruited about a dozen volunteer pastors and seminarians to type out Piepkorn documents that do not lend themselves to optical characer recongnition software because the original is a typescript or a printed document that that was poorly printed or has a lot of underlining. Contact me if you want to assist. You may choose a topic or even a specific document and I will send you a grahics image PDF to work from. You can view it in one window and type in another. You can choose Easy, Medium, or Hard documents. The Rev. Don Veitengruber and Deacon Joseph Morrison are also typing documents.

The question most asked of me with regard to the Arthur Carl Piepkorn Center is "When will volumes 3 and 4 will be out?" I found that putting out volume 2 took an enormous amount of time, effort and expense. The cost just for formatting, printing, ISBN number, copyright permissions, and three ads came to $7,700.00 for 1,000 copies. That is without anything for many trips to the archives in Elk Grove Village,IL, thousands of photocopies there at 25 cents a page, specialized computer hard-and software, office expenses, and hundreds of hours of labor. The result was a printed book that can't be computer searched, and has no index (useful indexes are time intensive projects even with a computer). Fortunately I have a good place to store the copies until they sell out, which they eventually will.I am also spending more time in making presentations about Piepkorn (though I love to do that), and responding to much more correspondence than I did when working on volume 2. And I am not getting any younger. So I am now working on posting Piepkorn's documents on my website and putting the best on a DVD. Doing these things will require copyright permission, which can be expensive. At first I will introduce the articles but not do extensive editing. The volunteers (above) are helping greatly with getting the documents that optical character scanning does not work with (carbon copies, handwritten documents, poorly printed or heavily marked up documents, etc.

My work has been slowed down by my two patent applications, which took far more time that I thought because I had to rewrite most of the patent agent's applications (he is supervised by a patent attorney while he works on his own JD).

My 1st patent application: I received a letter from the US Patent and Trademark Office in April allowing me a patent on one invention, but I did not pay the issuance and publication fee because I have thought of a better way to solve the problem that my invention solves. That better way has been patented but never applied to the problem I was working on. I am now trying to find a company that will buy or license that patent and use it for the problem I was working on, which is a problem that commonly affects electronic devices such laptops. Only some 200,000 patents are issued each year. My 2nd invention: When the Patent examiner ruled that it is obvious that a net with 2 inch square mesh holes used to gather leaves can also be used to gather powder snow (!) I decided not to fight him but instead to publicly disclose my second invention because it will save a great deal of drudgery, non-renewable energy,and air and noise pollution. A number of people are using it. You can see it by searching on Philip James Secker on FaceBook and YouTube. It has two dozen uses and needs no external energy source, though it can be used with one.

The most common request I get is to be added to the Center emailing list. When I got a new laptop the list was not imported. I have it on my old laptop but have not tried to use it and have not sent out an email for over a year. I have a new but incomplete list on my current laptop. The best way to keep in touch with Center news is the Current News section of www.Piepkorn.org.

I have now sold or given away more than half of the copies of volume 2 that were printed. It will eventually sell out, so if you want a copy, now is the time to order. I sent free copies to many pastors and libraries in third world countries. AS OF JANUARY 2010, VOLUME 2 IS IN 36 LIBRARIES:

14 Overseas Libraries:
Australia (Loehe Seminary*; Moore Theological College and Seminary), Canada (St. Catharines; and Saskatoon), China (Hong Kong)*, Germany, India (5 libraries)*, Norway*, Sweden* and Tanzania*.

13 U.S. Seminary Libraries & Archives:
2 LCMS: St. Louis (2 copies); Fort Wayne (2 copies);
7 ELCA: Chicago, Columbia, Columbus, Philadelphia, St. Paul, Wartburg, ELCA Archives*
1 ELS: Bethany, Mankato
3 OTHER: Dallas TS, Fuller TS, Union TS (NYC)

6 College and University Libraries:
Concordia University in Irvine and in Mequon; Valparaiso University; St. Louis University, St. Anselm College*, Library of Congress

Three libraries cannot be identified since they ordered through library services companies.

*=Donated by the ACP Center. If you want to donate one to your alma mater, contact the Center.

BOOKSTORES that carry it: Concordia Seminary, St Louis, and Concordia Seminary, Fort Wayne, stock it regularly; Concordia University, Bronxville; and Concordia St. Catherines, Canada, have sold it but may not have it in stock.

IT IS OR HAS BEEN USED AS A REQUIRED TEXTBOOK IN FOUR SEMINARY COURSES AT: Concordia University, Bronxville; Concordia Seminary, St. Louis; and Concordia Seminary, St. Cathariens, Canada (four times).

SEMINARIANS and OTHER STUDENTS: If your bookstore does not carry Volume 2 of Piepkorn's writings, see the special Seminarians and students' discount on the "Vol 2: Ordering Information" page.

Many of the articles and documents in Volume can be used for devotional reading.

Qbut disclosed it on UTube and Facebook (search on my Philip James Secker).