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Winter 2025 Featured Essay
The study is an introduction to Oswald Bayer’s groundbreaking work Promissio: The Reformational Turn in Luther’s Theology from 1972, which is now also available in English.
2025 lq 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...
LQ Annual 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.
2024 LQ Essay Prize and Invitation
From Lutheran Quarterly, Inc., for general release; August 7, 2024 The Lutheran Quarterly Essay Prize process had a good first year and we expect it to expand for 2025. As the editors prepare the winter issue that will complete volume 38 (2024), we can share the news and invite new interest. Of the dozen official
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.