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Spring 2025
About this Issue
Wendell Berry and Martin Luther on Creatureliness in a Technological Age William G. Fredstrom
Missouri’s Twin Traumas I. The Stephan Crisis (1839–) Jon Diefenthaler
The Ordo salutis in Pontoppidan’s 1737 Explanation of Luther’s Small Catechism Torleiv Austad
How My Mind Has Changed
On the Boundary by Hans Schwarz
Text, for the Record
The German Lutheran Landeskirche in Transylvania Ulrich A. Wien
Notes
Book Reviews
Featured Book Review: Singing Church History: Introducing the Christian Story through Hymn Texts by Paul Rorem Reviewed by Richard O. Johnson
Recent Issues:
Winter 2024
About this Issue
Johannes Schröder in the Resistance Against Hitler, Christiane Godt, Peter Godt, Hartmut Lehmann,
and Silke Lehmann
Reinhold von Derschau’s Christian Pilgrimage (1675), Eric Lund
How My Mind Has Changed
Four Conversations that Affected My Theology, Darrell Jodock
How My Mind Has Changed—or Not, Kurt K. Hendel
Text, for the Record
A New Melanchthon Preface from 28 August 1540, Timothy J. Wengert
Comment
Religious Dynamism between 1380 and 1520, Berndt Hamm
Notes
Featured Book Review: Ecumenical Dogmatics: Basic Features. By Edmund Schlink
Index to Volume Thirty-Eight (2024)
Autumn 2024
About this Issue
The Nicene Creed and Luther’s Credal Hymn, Paul Rorem
The Battle of the Biographies: Early Modern Life-Writing on Martin Luther, Robert Kolb
Paul Gerhardt in America 1743–2007, Mary Jane Haemig
How My Mind Has Changed
Lutheranism as a Corrective, Gilbert Meilaender
How My Mind Has Changed—About the Church, Timothy J. Wengert
Comment
The Practical Applications of the Augsburg Confession: Confessing the Faith Today,
Robert Kolb and Timothy J. Wengert
Text, for the Record
Luther Seminary Chapel Homily, May 12, 1998, Gerhard O. Forde
Notes
Book Reviews
Featured Book Review: Luther for Everyone – Who He Was and Why He Still Matters, by Hans Schwarz
Summer 2024
Bugenhagen’s Harmony of Christ’s Passion and Resurrection by Martin J. Lohrmann
“Lutherans” and “Calvinists” in the Early Seventeenth Century: From Controversial Labels to Confessional Terms by Michael K.H.Lapp
Clerical Collegiality in Colonial Pennsylvania by Karl Krueger
Luther in Norwegian by Joar Haga
How My Mind Has Changed
“It Is A Gate” by L. DeAne Lagerquist
The Crucible of the Sixties as a Portal to Orthodoxy by Robert Benne
Text, for the Record
Reflections on Round XII of the U.S. Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue
by Ian A. McFarland
Comment
The Rev. Jehu Jones and “The 1838 Black Metropolis” byTimothy J. Wengert
Notes
Book Reviews
Spring 2024
Early Modern Lutheranism as (Still) a Research Frontier by Robert Kolb
Luther in Early Modern English by David Scott Gehring
Robert Jenson and the Dogmatic Location of Culture by John W. Hoyum
How My Mind Has Changed
– How My Mind Has Not Changed, Yet Changed by Ted Peters
Looking—and Looking Again by Martha E. Stortz
Notes
Featured Book Reviews:The Saved and the Damned: A History of the Reformation. By Thomas
Kaufmann
Winter 2023
The First Lutheran Hymnals of 1524 by Robin A. Leaver
The Sacramentality of Scripture in the Writings of Johann Gerhard by Lucas J. Admiraal
How the Priesthood of All Believers Became American by Jonathan Strom
Notes
Annual Essay Prize
Virgil Thompson’s Retirement
LQ Books
Book Reviews
Autumn 2023
Wittenberg Uses of Law and Gospel by Robert Kolb
Freedom from the Law and the Experimental “Third Use” by Steven D. Paulson
Epitomes as Interpretations, Teaching Tools, and Rules of Faith by Irene Dingel
Text, for the Record – Letter of Dr. Martin Luther Concerning Erasmus of Rotterdam (1524) by James M Estes
Featured Book Review: Teaching Reformation: Essays in Honor of Timothy J. Wengert by Vincent Evener
Summer 2023
Martin Luther and the Flow of Faith by Mark D. Tranvik
The Transformation of the Wittenberg Concord in Philip Melanchthon’s Correspondence from Statement to Formula for Concord by Tobias Jammerthal
Luther’s Works in Tamil by Daniel Jeyaraj
Text, for the Record – Martin Luther’s Great Surprise: Translating the New Testament, 1522-2022 by Timothy J. Wengert
Featured Book Review – And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. By
Jon Meacham. (Reviewed by Jon Diefenthaler)
Spring 2023
“”Solus Christus” from Late Medieval Passion Piety to Reformation Faith” by Volker Leppin
“Martin Bucer between Oecolampadius and Melanchthon on the Lord’s Supper” by Amy Nelson Burnett
“The Origin and Diffusion of the Common Table Prayer “Come, Lord Jesus”” by James R. Eggert
“Luther in Hungarian” by Zoltán Csepregi
Review Essay: Luther’s Outlaw God by Steven. D. Paulson, reviewed by Matthew Becker
Featured book Review: The Augsburg Confession: Renewing Lutheran Faith and Practice, by Timothy J. Wengert, reviewed by Suzanne Hequet)
Winter 2022
“The Antwerp Martyrs and Luther’s First Song” by Robert J. Christman
“Clinging to the Wrong Catherine? The Misattribution of Catherine of Mecklenburg’s “Burr” Quotation to Catherine Luther and Its Obscured Reference in Two Lutheran Hymns” by Matthew Carver
“The Sudan Mission, Midwife to Two African Churches” by Mark Nygard
“Comment: Reformation Research Developments in Germany” by Robert Kolb
Notes
Featured Book Review: A Widower’s Lament: The Pious Meditations of Johann Christoph Oelhafen, translated by Ronald K. Rittgers, reviewed by Glenn K. Fluegge)
Autumn 2022
“Current Perspectives on Luther’s Biblical Interpretation” by Robert Kolb
“Martin Chemnitz’s Christology in Proclamation and Confession” by Christian J. Einertson
“Johann Gerhard on the Theologian’s Vocation in Theory and Practice” by Allison Zbicz Michael
“Bonhoeffer’s Luther Bible” by Brian Shetler and Ryan MacLean
Notes
Featured Book Review: Matthias Flacius Illyricus. Edited by Irene Dingel, Johannes Hund, and Luka Ili´c
Older Issues
Summer 2022
“The Advent Postil and the Christmas Postil of 1522” by Mary Jane Haemig
“Lutherans Fight the Plague in the Sixteenth Century” by Andreas Stegmann
“Wilhelm Loehe’s 1866 Sermons on the Lord’s Supper” by Jacob Corzine
“Martin Luther’s First Major Publication” by Timothy J. Wengert
“Oscar Cullmann’s Part in Twentieth Century Lutheran–Catholic Relations” by Karlfried Froehlich
Notes
Featured Book Review: The Course of God’s Providence: Religion, Health, and the Body in Early America. By Philippa Koch.
Spring 2022
“Edmund Schlink’s Ecumenical Dogmatics” by Matthew Becker
“The Distinction between Law and Gospel” by Edmund Schlink
“Luther in Dutch” by Sabine Hiebsch
“How Luther Became the Mythical “Here I Stand” Hero” by Samuel L. Young
Notes
Featured Book Review: Who Rules the World: Divine Providence and the Existence of Evil. By Hans Schwarz.
Winter 2021
“Revisiting Humanism and the Urban Reformation” by Amy Nelson Burnett
“Swedish and American Lutherans Negotiate Joining the World Council” by Erik Sidenvall
“Not without Skepticism: Metaphysics as a Metacritical Task of Theology” by Oswald Bayer
“Luther’s Invocavit Sermons (Lent 1522)” by Martin J. Lohrmann
“The Quincentennial of M. Flacius (1520–1575)” by Luka Ilić
Notes
Featured Book Review: The Holy Spirit and Christian Experience. By Simeon Zahl.
Autumn 2021
“Luther’s Antidote to Apophatic Theology” by Steven D. Paulson
“Luther’s Contribution to the Just War Tradition” by H. David Baer
“Translating Luther into Swedish in the Sixteenth Century” by Kajsa Weber
“Text, for the Record: Melanchthon on the Lord’s Supper in 1534” by Timothy J. Wengert
Notes
Fetured Book Review: Enemies of the Cross: Suffering, Truth, and Mysticism in the Early Reformation. By Vincent Evener
Summer 2021
“Highlighting in the 1534 “Luther Bible”” by Gordon A. Jensen
“Birgit Stolt and Luther Studies” by Carl P.E. Springer
“Luther in Danish” by Anna Vind
“Luther’s 1521 Magnificat Commentary” by Beth Kreitzer
“Melanchthon’s First Letter about an Ethiopian Visitor to Luther’s Wittenberg” by Timothy J. Wengert
Notes
Featured Book Review: The Dynamics of the Early Reformation in their Reformed Augustinian Context. By Robert J. Christman.
Spring 2021
“Another Quincentennial: The Diet and Edict of Worms (1521)” by Theodor Dieter
“Heinrich Bünting’s 1581 Biblical Itinerarium” by Robert Kolb
“Luther in Chinese” by Vincent Kam
“Luther, Vocation, and the Search for Significance” by David W. Loy
Comments
“Vocations?” Responses by Robert Benne, Suzanne Hequet, Kiara Jorgenson, and David W. Loy
Text, for the Record
“An ELFK Pastor vs a Nazi Creed” by Samuel Brandt
Notes
Featured Book Review: Luther@500 and Beyond: Martin Luther’s Theology Past, Present & Future. Edited by Stephen Hultgren, Stephen Pietsch, and Jeffrey Silcock.
Winter 2020
“The Biographical Significance of Bach’s Handwritten Entries in his Calov Bible” by Michael Marissen
“Luther and Some Lutherans on Divine Simplicity and Hiddenness” by John W. Hoyum
“Norway’s Millennium of Christianity and Decade of Celebration”by Idar Kjolsvik
Texts, for the Record
“Leonhard Kaiser’s 1527 Confession ‘Grace through Christ'” Introduced and translated by Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
“The Ministry and Ministries” (excerpt) by Dorothea Wendebourg
Book Reviews
Index to Volume Thirty-Four (2020)
Autumn 2020
“Martin Luther’s Jewish Assassin” by Samuel J. Dubbelman
“Dorothea Susanna of Sachsen-Weimar (1544-92) amid Confessions and Politics” by Irene Dingel
“Christology through the Fires of Feuerbach” by Bradley C. Jenson
“The Careers of O.F. Nolde, Pioneer of Public Church” by Leslie F. Weber, Jr.
“Luther in French” by Matthieu Arnold
Notes
Book Reviews
Summer 2020
“Silence before God” by Oswald Bayer
“Luther on God’s Play with His Saints” by Vincent Kam
“Georg Major on Church Fathers and Councils” by Irene Dingel
“August Vilmar (1800-1868) against German Theological Wissenschaft” by James Ambrose Lee II
Another Quincentennial
The Excommunication of Martin Luther:
Exsurge Domine (1520) and Decet Romanum Pontificem (1521)
Notes
Book Reviews
Spring 2020
“Preaching on Luther’s Hymn Texts in the Late Reformation” by Robert Kolb
“Luther’s Messianic Translations of the Hebrew Bible” by Erik T. Lundeen
“Luther’s Theology of Beauty” by Mark Mattes
“Luther’s Works in Ethiopian Languages” by Samuel Deressa
Two More Quincentennials
The Babylonian Captivity (1520)
The Freedom of a Christian (1520)
Notes
Book Reviews
Winter 2019
“Another Quincentennial: Luther’s 1520 Treatise on Good Works” by Anna Marie Johnson
“Parents, Authorities, and Disobedience in Sixteenth-Century Lutheran Sermons” by Mary Jane Haemig
“The Soul as Answer” by Oswald Bayer
Texts, for the Record
“We Are Not Alone: A Minister’s Prayer Book” by Timothy Wengert and Virgil Thompson
Comments
“What Remains of the Quincentennial?” by Hartmut Lehmann
“This Is Not Martin Luther” by Martin Lohrmann
Notes
Book Review
Index to Volume Thirty-Three (2019)
Autumn 2019
“Luther’s 1519 Unterricht amid the Negotiations with Papal Legate Karl von Miltitz” by Zeger Polhuijs
“‘Faith from Hearing’ in Luther’s Sermons on the Visitation by Samuel J. Dubbelman
“Martin Luther and Education” by Matthieu Arnold
“’Peace, Peace . . . Cross, Cross’ Reflections on How Martin Luther Relates the Theology of the Cross to Suffering by Timothy J. Wengert
Notes
Book Reviews
Summer 2019
“The Self-Giving God” by Oswald Bayer
*exclusive online feature: A Trinity Sunday Sermonby Oswald Bayer (translated by Karl Boehmer)
“The Development and Structure of Luther’s Ethics” by Andreas Stegmann
“African Americans and Northern Lutherans during the Eighteenth Century” by Richard J. Boles
Comments:
“Luther in Russian” by Matthew Heise
“Another Quincentennial: To the Christian Nobility (1520)” by Kurt K. Hendel
Book Reviews
Spring 2019
“Confessional Transformations from the Wittenberg Reformation to Lutheranism” by Irene Dingel
“Philip Melanchthon on Bible Translation and Commentaries” by Timothy J. Wengert
“Freedom of Faith—Freedom of the World: A Response to Brad Gregory’s View of the Reformation” by Dorothea Wendebourg
“The Motto VDMA in Reformation Books” by Christian Herrmann
Comment: “Luther in Arabic” by Mark N. Swanson
Notes
Book Reviews
Winter 2018
“The Freiburg ‘Bonhoeffer Circle’ (1943) on Theology and Germany’s Economic Order” by Michael T. Grzonka
see also ‘Appendix 4’ which accompanies the essay & is published here online
“American Lutheran Youth Ministry after World War II and Lutheranism Today” by Christopher J. Richmann
Texts, for the Record
“Luther and the Ethiopian Deacon” by David D. Daniels III and Lawrence Anglin
Comments
“Luther in Latvian” by Guntis Kalme
“Another Quincentennial: The 1519 Leipzig Debate” by Kurt K. Hendel
Notes
Book Reviews
Autumn 2018
“Luther among the Neo-Lutherans: Gottfried Thomasius and Johannes von Hofmann” by James Ambrose Lee II
“F.C.D. Wyneken, Thunder on the Indiana Frontier” by Karen Rösch
“Getting Women Ordained” by Gracia Grindal
“New Publications for the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation” by Hartmut Lehmann
Review Essays
Dictionary of Luther and the Lutheran Traditions, reviewed by H. George Anderson
Martin Luther: A Christian between Reforms and Modernity (1517–2017), reviewed by Mark Mattes
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther, reviewed by Mark Mattes
Book Reviews