2024 Reviews
Reviews published in 2024
Under the leadership of Mary Jane Haemig and Martin Lohrmann, Lutheran Quarterly published 75 reviews n the four issues of volume 38.
2024 saw continued strength in reviews received, edited, and awaiting publication. 31 reviews had been edited and await publication as of January 1, 2025.
Some of these may have been published by the time you read this report.) As of January 1, 2025, 53 reviews had been assigned and not yet submitted.
We appreciate staff and board willingness to review books. We also appreciate suggestions of books and reviewers. While continuing our focus on Lutheran history and theology we also seek books that are relevant to, but not obviously a part of, those emphases. We seek a wide variety of reviewers from different Lutheran groups, institutions, countries, and perspectives as well as reviewers outside the Lutheran orbit.
Martin Lohrmann has begun his work as Associate Book Review Editor. I particularly appreciate his suggestions for new reviewers and look forward to further collaboration.

75 reviews were published in the four issues of volume 38.
A comparison with past years is useful:
37/1 – 37/4 87 reviews
36/1 – 36/4 101
35/1 – 35/4 83
34/1 – 34/4 66
33/1 – 33/4 87
Reviews published in 2024 38/1 – 38/4 (Total: 75)
James W. Aageson, Now and Then: Biblical Conversations, New Testament Contexts, Formative Memories (Kristofer Phan Coffman) 38/4
Julie K. Allen, Danish But Not Lutheran: The Impact of Mormonism on Danish Cultural Identity, 1850-1920 (Mark Granquist) 38/2
Arne Bugge Amundsen et al., eds., Norwegian Epitaphs 1550-1700: Contexts and Interpretations (Gracia Grindal) 38/1
John James Audubon and John Bachman, ed. by Daniel Patterson and Eric Russell, Tenacious of Life: The Quadruped Essays of John James Audubon and John Bachman (Susan McArver) 38/1
Abjar Bahkou, Shining the Gospel Light on the Quran: Understanding and Engaging Muslims (Samuel Deressa) 38/4
Michael Beyer, Martin Hauger, and Volker Leppin, eds. Ausstrahlung und Widerschein: Wahrnehmung und Wirkung der Wittenberger Universität im Europa des 16. Jahrhunderts (Timothy Wengert) 38/4
Daniel Bohnert, Wittenberger Universitaetstheologie im fruehen 17. Jahrhundert: Eine Fallstudie zu Friedrich Balduin (1575-1627) (Robert Kolb) 38/1
Wayne H. Bowen, Spain and the Protestant Reformation: The Spanish Inquisition and the War for Europe (Andrew Wilson) 38/1
Luke Bretherton, A Primer in Christian Ethics: Christ and the Struggle to Live Well (William Fredstrom) 38/3
Stephen Bullivant, Nonverts: The Making of ex-Christian America (Richard Johnson) 38/3
Albert Clement, Johann Sebastian Bach’s Personal Copy of Abraham Calov’s Bible Commentary (David Mennicke) 38/3
Elesha Coffman, Turning Points in American Church History (Timothy Grundmeier) 38/4
Richard Cross, The Metaphysics of Christology in the Late Middle Ages: William of Ockham to Gabriel Biel (Mark Mattes) 38/1
Jennifer Deane, A History of Medieval Heresy and Inquisition (2nd ed.) (Steven McMichael) 38/2
Christiane Domtera-Schleichardt, Die Wittenberger “Scripta publice proposita” (1540-1569). Universitätsbekanntmachungen im Umfeld der späten Melanchthon (Robert Kolb) 38/2
Gary Dorrien, The Spirit of American Liberal Theology: A History (Mark Mattes) 38/1
Edwin Chr. Van Driel, ed. T&T Clark Handbook of Election (Mark Mattes) 38/4
James M. Estes, Good Government and Church Order: Essays on the Role of Secular Authority in the German Reformation (Kurt Stadtwald) 38/2
David Fink, ed., Reformation Commentary on Scripture: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs (Kristin Wendland) 38/4
Uwe Folwarczny, Lutherische Orthodoxie und konfessioneller Pragmatismus: Kurfürst Joachim Friedrich von Brandenburg zwischen Dynastie, Territorien und Reich (Robert Kolb) 38/1
Daniel Gehrt et al., eds., Reforming Church History. The Impact of the Reformation on Early Modern European Historiography (Robert Kolb) 38/1
Bruce Gordon, Zwingli: God’s Armed Prophet (Suzanne Hequet) 38/4
Jason Goroncy, ed., T & T Clark Handbook of the Doctrine of Creation (Mark Mattes) 38/4
Matthias Grebe et al., eds., Bonhoeffer and Christology: Revisiting Chalcedon (Mark Brocker) 38/3
Catharine Regina von Greiffenberg, Transl. by Joanne Epp, et al., WonderWork: Selected Sonnets… (Gracia Grindal) 38/4
Werner Greiling et al., eds., Luther auf der Wartburg 1521/1522: Bibelübersetzung – Bibeldruck – Wirkungsgeschichte (Gordon Jensen) 38/1
Boris Gunjević, ed. Luther and Philosophies of the Reformation (Kyle Sorkness) 38/2
Roy A. Harrisville III, The Faith of the New Testament: A Pauline Trajectory (Kristofer Phan Coffman) 38/1
Markku Heikkilä and Simo Heininen, A History of the Finnish Church (Mary Jane Haemig) 38/1
Simo Heininen, Mikael Agricola: Hans Liv och Verk (Kristofer Phan Coffman) 38/4
Stewart W. Herman, Jr., ed. by Stewart Herman III, The Swiftness of Living: Letters Home from Berlin, 1938-June 1939; Going to Extremes: Berlin to the Arctic in 1939; A Cold Descending Fog: Letters Home and a Memoir from Wartime Berlin, 1939-1940; Fragments of Shell Pattering: Letters Home From Germany, August 1940-February 1942 (4 volumes) (Mark Granquist) 38/1
Miles Hopgood, How Luther Regards Moses: The Lectures on Deuteronomy (Mark Mattes) 38/1
Ryan Hoselton, et al., eds., The Bible in Early Transatlantic Pietism and Evangelicalism (Mark Dixon) 38/1
Gordon A. Jensen, Experiencing Gospel: The History and Creativity of Martin Luther’s 1534 Bible Project (Ronald Rittgers) 38/4
Tim Judson, Awake in Gethsemane: Bonhoeffer and the Witness of Christian Lament (Aaron Klink) 38/4
Grant Kaplan and Kevin M. Vander Schel, eds., The Oxford History of Modern German Theology Volume 1 1781-1848 (Mark Mattes) 38/1
Thomas Kaufmann, The Saved and the Damned: A History of the Reformation (Robert Christman) 38/1
Jack Kilcrease, Justification by the Word: Restoring Sola Fide (Jacob Corzine) 38/3
Brandt C. Klawitter, A Forceful and Fruitful Verse. Genesis 1:28 in Luther’s Thought and its Place in the Wittenberg Reformation (1521-1531) (Beth Kreitzer) 38/2
J.F. Koestering, The Emigration of the Saxon Lutherans in the Year 1838 and Their Settlement in Perry County, Missouri (Jon Diefenthaler) 38/1
Andrew Kloes, The German Awakening: Protestant Renewal After the Enlightenment, 1815-1848 (Mary Jane Haemig) 38/1
Peter D.S. Krey, “I am Joseph!” Luther’s Last Lectures on the Last Chapters of Genesis (John Maxfield) 38/4
Richard Lischer, Our Hearts are Restless: The Art of Spiritual Memoir (Deanna Thompson) 38/1
Wilhelm Loehe, tr. by John R. Stephenson, Aphorisms on Church and Office Old and New (Craig Nessan) 38/2
Andreas Loewe and Katherine Firth, Martin Luther and the Arts: Music, Images, and Drama to Promote the Reformation (Aaron Klink) 38/1
Martin Luther, ed. by John T. Pless and Larry M. Vogel, Luther’s Large Catechism with Annotations and Contemporary Applications (Kurt Hendel) 38/1
Michael Marissen, Bach Against Modernity (Paul Westermeyer) 38/1
Susan Maros, Calling in Context (David Loy) 38/3
Bruce McCormack, The Humility of the Eternal Son (David Nelson) 38/3
Philip Melanchthon, tr. by Eduardo Gross, Loci Theologici: tópicos teológicos, de 1521 (Rubia Campos Guimarães Cruz) 38/4
Christopher Ocker, The Hybrid Reformation (Andrew Wilson) 38/2
David Peter, Organizing for Mission and Ministry (Joshua Hollman) 38/4
Philip Pfatteicher, The People’s Theology: Classic Hymns and Christian Formation (Daniel Grimminger) 38/3
Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Forgiveness: An Alternative Account (Mark Mattes) 38/4
Peter Prange, Free to Serve: Luther’s Doctrine of Vocation (Mark Mattes) 38/3
Christopher Richmann, Called: Recovering Lutheran Principles for Ministry and Vocation (Mark Granquist) 38/4
Robert C. Roberts, Recovering Christian Character: The Psychological Wisdom of Søren Kierkegaard (David Coe) 38/4
Mark Edward Ruff and Thomas Grossboelting, eds., Germany and the Confessional Divide: Religious Tensions and Political Culture, 1871-1989 (Jonathan Mumme) 38/1
Edmund Schlink, trans. and ed. by Matthew Becker, Ecumenical and Confessional Writings: Vol. 2 Ecumenical Dogmatics (Gregory Walter) 38/4
Ken Schurb, ed., Rediscovering The Issues Surrounding The 1974 Concordia Seminary Walkout (Jon Diefenthaler) 38/4
Hans Schwarz, Luther for Everyone: Who He Was and Why He Still Matters (Robert Kolb) 38/3
Annis N. Shaver et al., Staging Luther Four Plays by Hans Sachs (Gracia Grindal) 38/3
Ted A. Smith, The End of Theological Education (Robert Benne) 38/3
Andreas Stegmann, Zweierlei Arznei gegen die Pest (Paul Strauss) 38/3
Johann Anselm Steiger and Ricarda Höffler, eds., Das Jüngste Gericht in den Konfessionen und Medien der Frühen Neuzeit (Robert Kolb) 38/2
Marisa Strizzi, Luther after Derrida: The Deconstructive Drive of Theology (Gregory Walter) 38/3
Andrew L. Thomas, The Apocalypse in Reformation Nuremberg: Jews and Turks in Andreas Osiander’s World (Stephen Burnett) 38/1
Ola Tjørhom, Eucharist (Mark Mattes) 38/3
Giovanni Tortoriello, Scala Christus Est: Reassessing the Historical Context of Martin Luther’s Theology of the Cross (Samuel Dubbelman) 38/3
Galen Watts, The Spiritual Turn (Mark Mattes) 38/4
William P. Weaver, Homer in Wittenberg: Rhetoric, Scholarship, Prayer (Carl Springer) 38/1
Roger Whittall, We Are All Priests: The ecclesiological boundaries and horizons of Martin Luther’s Common Priesthood (Mark Tranvik) 38/3
Ulrich A. Wien, ed., Crossing Borders – Impact of Reformation in Transylvania since the 1520s (Paul Strauss) 38/1
N.T. Wright, Into the Heart of Romans (Roy Harrisville III) 38/4
Sharon M. Wyman, Power, Passion, and Faith: Emmy Carlsson Evald: Suffragist and Social Activist (Maria Erling) 38/2