Winter 2025 Featured Book Review
Promissio: The Reformational Turn in Luther’s Theology. By Oswald Bayer.
Translated by Jeffrey G. Silcock. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2025. 464 pp.
Reviewed by Phillip Cary
One of the most important and illuminating works of modern Luther scholarship is now available in English, thanks to Fortress Press, Lutheran Quarterly Books, and Jeffrey Silcock, who has been translating Bayer’s writings for many years now with the author’s active cooperation. This book, which combines Bayer’s doctoral dissertation and Habilitation thesis, is his fundamental contribution to Luther research and the basis of his later work in systematic theology and ethics. This publication in English comes to us with a new preface and retrospective afterword by Bayer, as well as a translator’s preface.
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