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Autumn 2026 Featured Essay
People think that I can talk about nothing else but justification. However, I am rarely asked ever to speak on anything else.
The 2026 Lutheran Quarterly 1521 Essay Prize Winner and Invitation
2026 Essay Prize Winner The 2026 Lutheran Quarterly Essay Prize, sponsored by the 1521 Foundation, has been awarded to Johannes Schimohr for “Communion Contested; Luther and Karlstadt on I Corinthians 10,” Lutheran Quarterly 40 (2026): 1-26. Peer reviews from specialists in Luther and Andreas Karlstadt highlighted
Summer 2026 Featured Essay
In the nineteenth century, German Americans and their friends sought to memorialize the contributions of German Lutherans in the American Revolutionary War and the early republic.
spring 2026 featured essay: The Dispute over Images between Calvinism and Lutheranism
What does God desire in the Second Commandment?” So reads the ninety-sixth question of the Heidelberg Catechism..
Winter 2025 Featured Essay
winter 2025 Featured Essay Luther’s Marriage in its Theological Setting by Volker Leppin Abstract Luther’s marriage took some of the Reformer’s companions by surprise. Indeed,Luther had for a long time attempted to get Katharina married to someone else,but this did not work out. The Reformer’s own resistance
Autumn 2025 Featured Essay
The study is an introduction to Oswald Bayer’s groundbreaking work Promissio: The Reformational Turn in Luther’s Theology from 1972.
2025 lq 1521 annual prize
The 2025 LQ Essay Prize, sponsored by the 1521 Foundation, has been awarded to William G. Fredstrom.
SUMMER 2025 Featured Essay
In view of two recent anniversaries, the 175th of its founding in 1847 and the fiftieth of the “Walk Out” of faculty and students in 1974...
The LQ 1521 Essay Prize
Thanks to a generous grant from the 1521 Foundation, LQ can award an annual Essay Prize aimed at younger scholars.
Spring 2025 Featured Essay
In view of two recent anniversaries, the 175th of its founding in 1847 and the fiftieth of the “Walk Out” of faculty and students in 1974...
Winter 2024 Featured Essay
Johannes Schröder in the Resistance Against Hitler by Christiane Godt, Peter Godt, Hartmut Lehmann, and Silke Lehmann Abstract After joining the National Committee for a Free Germany, Military Chaplain Johannes Schröder, taken prisoner by the Soviets in Stalingrad, was able to address listeners in
autumn 2024 Featured Essay
German Hymnwriter Paul Gerhardt (1607–1676), often described as the most important Lutheran hymnwriter other than Martin Luther, has had an impact in America.