In this Lutheran Quarterly Book Talk, Timothy Wenger asks Volker Leppin about his book “United With Christ: Martin Luther and Christian Mysticism”.

In this collection of essays newly published in English, Volker Leppin restores a holistic understanding of Martin Luther’s development amid a late-medieval context strongly influenced by mysticism.

Enjoy the interview and also feel free to purchase the book from Fortress Press.

Timothy Wengert is emeritus professor of church history at the United Lutheran Seminary (Philadelphia). After serving as a parish pastor for seven years in Minnesota and Wisconsin, he taught on Philadelphia’s faculty from 1989-2013. He has written, co-edited, and translated many books on Philip Melanchthon and Martin Luther.

Volker Leppin is a German Protestant theologian and the Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology at Yale Divinity School. A historian of medieval and Reformation studies, his research focuses on scholasticism and mysticism in the late Middle Ages. He is a prolific author of 19 monographs and 11 critical editions of text, the editor or co-editor of 49 books, and the author of more than 300 scholarly articles or chapters.