Review Essay
 
Mark Noll, “A Good Time for Looking Back:  Mark Granquist, Lutherans in America: A New History 29/3
 
Reviews published 29/1 -29/4  (reviewer in parentheses)

Christopher B. Barnett, From Despair to Faith: The Spirituality of Søren Kierkegaard (Ron Marshall)  29/4

Thomas E. Bergler, From Here to Maturity: Overcoming the Junvenilization of American Christianity  (Mark Mattes)   29/4

Albrecht Beutel, Thomas K. Kuhn, and Markus Wriedt, eds. Glaube und Vernunft: Studien zur Kirchen- und Theologiegeschichte des späten 18. Jahrhunderts  (Garrett Paul)   29/2

Joel D. Biermann, A Case for Character: Towards a Lutheran Virtue Ethics (Robert Benne)  29/1

Debela Birri, Divine Plan Unfolding:  The Story of Ethiopian Evangelical Church Bethel (Samuel Deressa)  29/2

Petra Bosse-Huber, et al., eds. 500 Jahre Reformation:  Bedeutung und Herausforderungen (H. George Anderson)  29/3

Lonnie L. Branch, Reflections of Light:  The Odyssey of a Black American Lutheran Pastor During the Civil Rights Years  (Kathryn Galchutt)   29/1

Johannes Bugenhagen, Reformatorische Schriften (1515/16 – 1524)   ed. Anneliese Bieber-Wallmann.  Johannes Bugenhagen Werke  Band I, 1   (Martin Lohrmann)  29/1

Christoph Burger, Tradition und Neubeginn. Martin Luther in seinen frühen Jahren (Carter Lindberg)  29/3

Jordan Cooper, Christification: A Lutheran Approach  (Jack Kilcrease)   29/3

Gary Dorrien, Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit: The Idealistic Logic of Modern Theology   (David Nelson)  29/3

Ecumenical Challenges: Working in Love, Transforming Lives.  Volume 3 of the Journal of Gudina Tumsa Theological Forum.  (Darrell Jodock)  29/1

George Faithful, Mothering the Fatherland: A Protestant Sisterhood Repents for the Holocaust  (Janet Ramsey)  29/2

Aaron Fogleman, Two Troubled Souls:  An Eighteenth-Century Couple’s Spiritual Journey in the Atlantic World (Mark Dixon)   29/3

Marianna Forde, Gerhard O. Forde:  A Life  (Ken Jones)  29/3

Mary Gaebler, The Courage of Faith: Martin Luther and the Theonomous Self  (Laurie Jungling)   29/3

Daniel Gehrt, ed.  Aus Erster Hand:  95 Porträts zur Reformationsgeschichte:  Aus der Sammlungen der Forschungsbibliothek Gotha  (Mary Jane Haemig)  29/3

Johann Gerhard, eds. Benjamin Mayes and Heath Curtis.  Theological commonplaces:  On Original Sin, On Actual Sins, On Free Choice.  (Kevin Hall)   29/3

Elizabeth Gerhardt, The Cross and Gendercide:  A Theological Response to Global Violence against Women and Girls   (Kathryn Kleinhans)   29/4

Clifford J. Green and Guy C. Carter, eds.  Interpreting Bonhoeffer: Historical Perspectives, Emerging Issues   (Mark Brocker)  28/4
Margaret M. Grubiak, White Elephants on Campus: The Decline of the University Chapel in America, 1920-1960   (DeAne Lagerquist)  29/1

H. Ashley Hall, Philip Melanchthon and the Cappadocians   (Paul Robinson)  29/2

Wilfried Härle, Outline of Christian Doctrine: An Evangelical Dogmatics  (Mark Mattes)  29/4

Roy A. Harrisville, Pandora’s Box Opened:  an Examination and Defense of Historical-Critical Method and Its Master Practitioners    (Mark Mattes)  29/1

Courtney Handman, Critical Christianity: Translation and Denominational Conflict in Papua New Guinea   (Marcus Felde)  29/4

Christine Helmer, Theology and the End of Doctrine   (Mark Mattes)   29/1

Martin Hoffmann, Studienbuch Martin Luther:  Grundtexte und Deutungen  (Robert Kolb) 29/2

R. Ward Holder, Calvin and Luther: The Continuing Relationship  (Chris Croghan)  29/1

George Hunsinger, Reading Barth with Charity: A Hermeneutical Proposal (Mark Mattes) 29/4

Scott Hyslop, The Precious Gift:  The Hymns, Carols, and Translations of Henry L. Lettermann  (Gracia Grindal)  29/2

Thomas Illg, Ein anderer Mensch werden.  Johann Arndts Verständnis der imitatio Christi als Anleitung zu einem wahren Christentum  (Jonathan Strom)  29/1

Joyce L. Irwin, trans. and ed., Foretastes of Heaven in Lutheran Church Music Tradition: Johann Mattheson and Christoph Raupach on Music in Time and Eternity  (Daniel Zager)    29/4

Peder Jothen, Kierkegaard, Aesthetics, and Selfhood:  The Art of Subjectivity (Mark Mattes)  29/2

Thomas Kaufmann, An den christlichen Adel deutscher Nation von des christlichen Standes Besserung  (Mark Tranvik)  29/1

Sun-Young Kim, Luther on Faith and Love: Christ and the Law in the 1535 Galatians Commentary  (Aaron Klink)  29/4

Beate Kobler, Die Entstehung des negativen Melanchthon Bildes  (Timothy Wengert)  29/3

Nancy Koester, Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life  (Mark Granquist)  29/2

U.V. Koren.  Mark DeGarmeaux ed.  U.V. Koren’s Works:  Volume 1, Sermons (Ken Jones)  29/3

Staale Johannes Kristiansen and Svein Rise, eds.  Key Theological Thinkers: From Modern to Postmodern    (Timothy Hiller)  29/1

Andreas Loewe, Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. John Passion (BWV 245):  A Theological Commentary (Paul Westermeyer)  29/3

Steve Longenecker, Gettysburg Religion: Refinement, Diversity, and Race in the Antebellum and Civil War Border North. (Maria Erling)  29/1

Ira Lupu and Robert Tuttle, Secular Government, Religious People  (Marie Failinger)  29/2

Martin Luther, Luther’s Works, v. 68, Sermons on Matthew, Chapters 19-24  (Mark Mattes)  29/3

David Luy, Dominus Mortis:  Martin Luther on the Incorruptibility of God in Christ (Mark Mattes)  29/3

Korey Maas and Adam Francisco, eds. Making the Case for Christianity:  Responding to Modern Objections (Walter Sundberg)   29/2

Michael Marissen, Tainted Glory in Handel’s Messiah: The Unsettling History of the World’s Most Beloved Choral Work   (John Weit)  29/2

Mark Mattes, ed.  Twentieth Century Lutheran Theologians  (Richard Carter)  29/3

Andrew M. McGinnis, The Son of God Beyond the Flesh:  A Historical and Theological Study of the extra Calvinisticum  (Mark Mattes) 29/1

Philip Melanchthon and Justus Menius, edited by Hans-Otto Schneider, Politischer Widerstand als Protestantische Option: Philipp Melanchthon und Justus Menius: Von der Notwehr (1547)   (Timothy Wengert)   29/2

Kenneth Mtata et al, eds. Singing the Songs of the Lord in Foreign Lands:  Psalms in Contemporary Lutheran Interpretation (Troy Troftgruben)  29/4

Marcus Mühling, Liebesgeschichte Gott:  Systematische Theologie im Konzept  (Gregory Walter)   29/3

R. David Nelson, ed., Indicative of Grace- Imperative of Freedom: Essays in Honour of Eberhard Jüngel in His 80th Year   (Jack Kilcrease)   29/4

Scott R. Paeth, The Niebuhr Brothers for Armchair Theologians  (Katherine Parent)  29/1

John Palka, My Slovakia, My Family:  One Family’s Role in the Birth of a Nation (Paul Hinlicky)   29/3

Helen Parish, Elaine Fulton, and Peter Webster, eds.  The Search for Authority in Reformation Europe   (William Wright)  29/1

Albrecht Peters, Commentary on Luther’s Catechisms: Lord’s Prayer (Martin Lohrmann)  29/1

Albrecht Peters, Commentary on Luther’s Catechisms: Confession and Christian Life, (Eric Lund)    29/3

Daniel J. Peterson, Tillich:  A Brief Overview of the Life and Writings of Paul Tillich (Timothy Hiller)   29/3

Philip H. Pfatteicher, Journey into the Heart of God: Living the Liturgical Year  (Timothy Maschke)  29/4

Mari-Anna Poentinen, African Theology as Liberating Wisdom: Celebrating Life and Harmony in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Botswana  (Mark Nygard) 29/4



James Reston, Luther’s Fortress: Martin Luther and His Reformation Under Siege (Robert Kolb)  29/3

A.G. Roeber, Hopes for Better Spouses:  Protestant Marriage and Church Renewal in Early Modern Europe, India, and North America   (Mark Granquist)  29/1

R. Sahayadhas, Hindu Nationalism and the Indian Church:  Towards an Ecclesiology in Conversation with Martin Luther  (Guillermo Hansen)  29/3

Florian Schmitz, “Nachfolge”: Zur Theologie Dietrich Bonhoeffers (Thomas Johnson) 29/3

Clint Schnekloth, Mediating faith: faith formation in a trans-media era  (Hans Wiersma)  29/3

Hans Schwarz, The Human Being: A Theological Anthropology  (Craig Nessan)  29/1

Hans Schwarz, Vying for the Truth—Theology and the Natural Sciences:  From the 17th Century to the Present  (Mark Mattes)  29/1

Hans Schwarz, The Christian Faith: A Creedal Account (Jennifer Hockenberry Dragseth)  29/4

Christopher R. Seitz, Colossians (Troy Troftgruben)  29/4

Wolfgang Sommer, Froemmigkeit und Weltoffenheit im deutschen Luthertum  (Eric Lund)   29/3

Bernd Stephan, “Ein Itzlichs Werck Lobt Seinen Meister”  Friedrich der Weise, Bildung und Kuenste  (Michael Halvorson)   29/3

Merton Strommen, The Amazing Hand of God: My Story of a Lifetime in Youth Ministry (Terri Elton)  29/1

Dean G. Stroud, ed.  Preaching in Hitler’s Shadow: Sermons of Resistance in the Third Reich (Robert Ericksen)  29/2

Graham Tomlin, Luther & His World   (Robert Kolb)  29/1

Tim Townsend, Mission at Nuremberg:  An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis   (Timothy Eichler)   29/2

Eric J. Trozzo, Rupturing Eschatology: Divine Glory and the Silence of the Cross (Mark Mattes)  29/1

Jon D. Vieker, August Crull and the Story of the Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book 1912     (Gracia Grindal)    29/2

Mats Wahlberg, Revelation as Testimony: A Philosophical-Theological Study.  (Mark Mattes)  29/4

Timothy Wengert, Reading the Bible with Martin Luther: An Introductory Guide (James Voelz)   29/3

Sarah Hinlicky Wilson, Woman, Women, and the Priesthood in the Trinitarian Theology of Elisabeth Behr-Sigel    (Deanna Thompson)  29/1