2019 Reviews
Reviews Published in 2019
Under the leadership of book review editors Mary Jane Haemig and Suzanne Hequet, Lutheran Quarterly published 87 book reviews in Volume 33 (2019). The list below gives the publication information of each book reviewed. The reviewer's name appears in parentheses, followed by the Volume/number of the review.
Ragnar Andersen, Concordia Ecclesiae: An Inquiry into Tension and Coherence in Philipp Melanchthon’s Theology and Efforts for Ecclesiastical Unity, Especially in 1527-1530 (Timothy Wengert) 33/1
Margaret Arnold, The Magdalene in the Reformation (Beth Kreitzer) 33/4
Joachim Bauer and Michael Haspel, eds., Jakob Strauss und der reformatorische Wucherstreit. Die soziale Dimension der Reformation und ihre Wirkungen (Carter Lindberg) 33/2
Hans Boersma, Seeing God: the Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition (Mark Mattes) 33/3
Carl Braaten, My Ecumenical Journey (Marcus Felde) 33/4
Katharina Bracht, Johann Major (1564–1654): Professor der Theologie, Superintendent in Jena und Kirchenpolitker im Dreißigjährigen Krieg (Benjamin Mayes) 33/3
Brian C. Brewer, Martin Luther and the Seven Sacraments: A Contemporary Protestant Reappraisal (Kathryn Kleinhans) 33/3
Johannes Burkardt, Gerhard Tersteegen: Abhandlungen zu Frömmigheit und Theologie (H. George Anderson) 33/3
Michael W. Campbell and Nikolaus Satelmajer, Here We Stand: Luther, the Reformation, and Seventh-Day Adventism (Christopher Richmann) 33/4
Richard G. Cole, What Did the Lutheran Reformation Look Like A Hundred Years After Martin Luther: Community and Culture in Ansbach, Germany in the Seventeenth Century (Kurt Stadtwald) 33/3
Amy Cook, Jung and Kierkegaard: Researching a Kindred Spirit in the Shadows (Ronald Marshall) 33/3
David D. Cook, ed., Luther on Leadership: Leadership Insights from the Great Reformer (Ron Hoyum) 33/3
Jordan Cooper, Lex Aeterna: A Defense of the Orthodox Lutheran Doctrine of God’s Law and Critique of Gerhard Forde (Jack Kilcrease) 33/2
William G. Dever, Beyond the Texts: An Archaeological Portrait of Ancient Israel and Judah (Mark Schuler) 33/3
Irene Dingel et al, Initia Reformationi. Wittenberg und die Frühe Reformation. (Kurt Hendel) 33/3
Mark Ellingsen, Martin Luther’s Legacy: Reframing Reformation Theology for the 21st Century (Aaron Klink) 33/3
Marie A. Failinger and Ronald W. Duty, eds., Lutheran Theology and Secular Law: The Work of the Modern State (Mark Mattes) 33/3
Glenn K. Fluegge, Johann Gerhard (1582–1637) and the Conceptualization of Theologia at the Threshold of the »Age of Orthodoxy«: The Making of the Theologian (Mark Mattes) 33/4
Maren Freudenberg, The Mainline in Late Modernity: Tradition and Innovation in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (Aaron Klink) 33/1
Peter Frick, Understanding Bonhoeffer (John Matthews) 33/4
Alberto L. García and Justo L. González, eds., Our 95 Theses: 500 Years After the Reformation (Chris Ángel)
Brian T. German, Psalms of the Faithful: Luther’s Early Reading of the Psalter in Canonical Context (Brooks Schramm) 33/1
Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Luther the Anti-Semite: A Contemporary Jewish Perspective (Darrell Jodock) 33/3
Niels Henrik Gregersen, et al., eds., Reformation Theology for a Post-Secular Age: Løgstrup, Prenter, Wingren, and the Future of Scandinavian Creation Theology (Joshua Miller) 33/1
Gracia Grindal, The Sword of Eden (Jeff Burkart) 33/4
Gracia Grindal, A Treasury of Faith: Lectionary Hymn Texts Old Testament Series A, B, and C (David Mennicke) 33/4
Craig Harline, A World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation (Susan Mobley) 33/2
Alan J. Hauser and Duane F. Watson, eds., A History of Biblical Interpretation Volume 3: The Enlightenment through the Nineteenth Century (Roy Harrisville III) 33/2
Stephen R. Haynes, The Battle for Bonhoeffer – Debating Discipleship in the Age of Trump (John W. Matthews) 33/4
Christine Helmer, How Luther Became the Reformer (Carter Lindberg) 33/3
Christine Helmer, The Trinity and Martin Luther, revised edition (Joshua Miller) 33/4
Scott Hendrix, Martin Luther: Visionary Reformer (Dorothea Wendebourg) 33/2
Paul R. Hinlicky, Luther for Evangelicals: A Reintroduction (Richard Johnson) 33/3
Paul R. Hinlicky and R. David Nelson, eds., Martyrdom and the Suffering of the Righteous (H. Ashley Hall) 33/3
Justin S. Holcomb, ed., Christian Theologies of Salvation: A Comparative Introduction (Miles Hopgood) 33/3
Michael Horton, Justification (Mark Mattes) 33/4
Bjørn Ole Hovda, The Controversy over the Lord’s Supper in Danzig 1561-1567: Presence and Practice-Theology and Confessional Policy (Timothy Maschke) 33/4
Ada S. Jaarsma, Kierkegaard After the Genome: Science, Existence and Belief in This World (Ron Marshall) 33/4
Lauri T. Jäntti, Prolepticism: The Futurist Theology of Ted Peters (Lynn Hofstad) 33/3
David Llewellyn Jenkins, Whither God Brings Us: Cambridge and the Reformation Martyrs (Korey Maas) 33/3
Anna Marie Johnson, Beyond Indulgences: Luther’s Reform of Late Medieval Piety, 1518-1520 (Mary Jane Haemig) 33/2
Richard O. Johnson, Changing World, Changeless Christ: The American Lutheran Publicity Bureau, 1914-2014 (Mark Granquist) 33/4
Bob Kellemen, Counseling under the Cross: How Martin Luther applied the Gospel to Daily Life (John Pless) 33/2
Christel Kiel, Maasai Diviners and Christianity: An Investigation of Three Different Clans of IlÓibonok in Tanzania and the Attitude of the Lutheran Church towards Them (Marcus Felde) 33/1
Jack Kilcrease, The Doctrine of Atonement: From Luther to Forde (Adam Morton) 33/4
Peter Kline, Passion for Nothing:Kierkegaard’s Apophatic Theology (Ron Marshall) 33/4
Joachim Köhler, Luther! Biographie Eines Befreiten (Robert Christman) 33/2
Armin Kohnle/Irene Dingel, eds., Johannes Mathesius (1504-1565) Rezeption und Verbreitung der Wittenberger Reformation… (Austra Reinis) 33/2
Robert Kolb, Martin Luther as He Lived and Breathed: Recollections of the Reformer (Mark Tranvik) 33/3
Michaela Kusnierikova, Acting for Others: Trinitarian Communion and Christological Agency (Thomas K. Johnson) 33/2
Russ Leo, Tragedy as Philosophy in the Reformation World (Mark Mattes) 33/4
Matthew Levering (with a response by Kevin Vanhoozer), Was the Reformation a Mistake? Why Catholic Doctrine is not Unbiblical (Timothy Maschke) 33/1
Jonathan A. Linebaugh, ed., God’s Two Words: Law and Gospel in the Lutheran and Reformed Traditions (H. George Anderson) 33/2
Seppo Lohi, ed. by Paul Waaraniemi, Christianity of the Heart: Lars Levi Laestadius and the Beginning Phases of the Laestadian Revival (Mirko Hall) 33/4
Martin J. Lohrmann, Book of Harmony. Spirit and Service in the Lutheran Confessions (Mark Tranvik) 33/2
Lutheran World Federation and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, From Conflict to Communion: Lutheran-Catholic Common Commemoration of the Reformation in 2017 (Suzanne Hequet) 33/4
Frances Luttikhuizen, Underground Protestantism in Sixteenth Century Spain: A Much Ignored Side of Spanish History (Andrew Wilson) 33/1
Jason A. Mahn, ed. Radical Lutherans/Lutheran Radicals (Matthew Becker) 33/2
William M. Marsh, Martin Luther on Reading the Bible as Christian Scripture: The Messiah in Luther’s Biblical Hermeneutic and Theology (Steven Tyra)
Peter Marshall, 1517: Martin Luther and the Invention of the Reformation (Sherry Jordon) 33/2
Michael Massing, Fatal Discord. Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind (Robert Kolb) 33/1
Michael Mawson, Christ Existing as Community (Aaron Klink) 33/4
Andrew Mein et al. eds., The First World War and the Mobilization of Biblical Scholarship (H. George Anderson) 33/4
Gregory J. Miller, The Turks and Islam in Reformation Germany (Robert Christman) 33/2
Friederike Nüssel and Hans-Peter Grosshans, eds. Lütherische Theologie in aussereuropäischen Kontexten: Eine Zussammenschau aus Anlass des 500. Reformationsjubiläums (Craig Nessan) 33/2
Michael Pasquarello III, Dietrich: Bonhoeffer and the Theology of a Preaching Life (Mark Brocker) 33/1
Andrew Pettegree, Brand Luther (Timothy Maschke) 33/2
Brad Pribbenow, Prayerbook of Christ: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Christological Interpretation of the Psalms (James Limburg) 33/4
Iain Provan, The Reformation and the Right Reading of Scripture (Martin Lohrmann) 33/2
Andrew Root, Faith Formation in a Secular Age: Responding to the Church’s Obsession with Youthfulness (Kristine Stache) 33/2
Michael Root and James J. Buckley, eds. Remembering the Reformation: Commemorate? Celebrate? Repent? (Richard Johnson) 33/2
Ellen Vea Rosnes, The Norwegian Mission’s Literacy Work in Colonial and Independent Madagascar (Mark Nygard) 33/4
Herman J. Selderhuis and J. Marius J. Lange van Ravenswaay, eds. Luther and Calvinism: Image and Reception of Martin Luther in the History and Theology of Calvinism (H. George Anderson) 33/1
Simone Sinn, et al, eds. Transformative Readings of Sacred Scriptures: Christians and Muslims in Dialogue (Mark Nygard) 33/2
Notger Slenczka, Vom Alten Testament und vom Neuen (James Limburg) 33/2
Carl P.E. Springer, Cicero in Heaven: The Roman Rhetor and Luther’s Reformation (Neil Leroux) 33/2
Jonathan Strom, German Pietism and the Problem of Conversion (Walter Sundberg) 33/2
Kristine Suna-Koro, In Counterpoint: Diaspora, Postcoloniality, and Sacramental Theology (Chris Angel) 33/4
Deanna Thompson, The Virtual Body of Christ in a Suffering World (Rhoda Schuler) 33/3
Anthony C. Thiselton, Understanding Pannenberg: Landmark Theologian of the Twentieth Century (Mark Mattes) 33/3
Ruth A. Tucker, Katie Luther: First Lady of the Reformation: The Unconventional Life of Katharina von Bora (Diane Bowers) 33/4
Victor I. Vieth, On This Rock: A Call to Center the Christian Response to Child Abuse on the Life and Words of Jesus (Martin Lohrmann) 33/3
Daniel Van Voorhis, Johan Arndt: A prophet of Lutheran Pietism (Mark Mattes) 33/3
Hermann Vorländer, Church in Motion: The History of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission in Bavaria (Mary Jane Haemig) 33/4
Sylvia Walsh, Kierkegaard and Religion: Personality, Character, and Virtue (Ronald Marshall) 33/3
Sarah Hinlicky Wilson; translated by Yuan-Wei Liao and Yu-Qin Wei, 超越五百年的影響力:馬丁路德今天仍舊説話.Explorations in Martin Luther’s Theology (Luke Zheng) 33/3
Johannes Zachhuber, Luther’s Christological Legacy: Christocentrism and the Chalcedonian Tradition (Mark Mattes) 33/1