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Autumn 2026 Featured Essay
People think that I can talk about nothing else but justification. However, I am rarely asked ever to speak on anything else.
Autumn 2026 Featured Book Reviews
With his attacks on monastic life and clerical celibacy, and his elevation of the married estate, Martin Luther initiated a renegotiation & reformation of norms.
The 2026 Lutheran Quarterly 1521 Essay Prize Winner and Invitation
2026 Essay Prize Winner The 2026 Lutheran Quarterly Essay Prize, sponsored by the 1521 Foundation, has been awarded to Johannes Schimohr for “Communion Contest
The Martin Luther Jubilee
The 1983 Forde lecture in our Autumn issue was part of a much larger “Martin Luther Jubilee, A Weeklong Study Conference” in Washington, DC. Courtesy of t
LQ Books Listing 2026
Here is a complete list of Lutheran Quarterly books to date (7/2026).
The Forde Folio
Gerhard Forde's legacy lives on. See now our first installment of resources by and about Forde.
Reforming Faith
Anna Marie Johnson covers the early years just after the 95 theses were posted in 1517 by Luther in her latest book.
Summer 2026 Featured Essay
In the nineteenth century, German Americans and their friends sought to memorialize the contributions of German Lutherans in the American Revolutionary War and t
Summer 2026 Featured Book Reviews
Among the many consequences of the Reformation, the most tragic was the mass uprising known as the Peasants’ War of 1525.
GOOD NEWS!
Our publisher (Johns Hopkins University Press Journals) has included Lutheran Quarterly
in its pilot project of Open Access journals.
To freely access this year’s contents as each issue is published, click this link:
https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/lutheran-quarterly,
scroll down to Related Resources and choose “Access Journal Online.”
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