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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...
LQ Annual Essay Prize
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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.
Summer 2024 Featured Essay
I was born in 1937, old enough to remember the surrenders of both the Germans and then the Japanese at the end of World War II.
Spring 2024 Featured Essay
This article by John Hoyum takes up Robert Jenson’s theology of culture. According to Jenson, the church is a heavenly culture of its own...
Winter 2023 Featured Essay
"How the Priesthood of All Believers Became American" by Jonathan Strom"
Autumn 2023 Featured Essay – Freedom from the Law and the Experimental “Third Use” – by Steven Paulson
A third use of the law was a thought experiment that appeared as a side issue in annotations on scripture from the great Preceptor—Philip Melanchthon.
Summer 2023 – Martin Luther and the Flow of Faith by Mark D. Tranvik
Martin Luther’s radical and revolutionary understanding of God’s love in Christ entails a new kind of theological language. He makes a decisive break with any notion that human beings cooperate, even at a minimal level, in their relationship with God.
Spring 2023 – The Origin and Diffusion of the Common Table Pray “Come Lord Jesus” by James R. Eggert
For centuries, the Common Table Prayer “Come, Lord Jesus” has been prayed in countless Lutheran and many other Christian homes in Germany, the United States, Australia, and elsewhere.
Winter 2022 – “The Antwerp Martyrs and Luther’s First Song” by Robert J. Christman
If you asked modern Lutherans to name the first Luther hymn that came to mind, few, I wager, would propose “A New Song Here Shall be Begun,” the Reformer’s first musical work.1 Not a hymn per se, “A New Song” is a ballad, a song that narrates a story, often of a contemporary event.