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2024 LQ 1521 Essay Prize and Invitation
From Lutheran Quarterly, Inc., for general release; August 7, 2024 The Lutheran Quarterly 1521 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 off
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.
Summer 2022 – Wilhelm Loehe’s 1866 Sermons on the Lord’s Supper by Jacob Corzine
In 1866, the Franconian pastor Wilhelm Loehe preached a series of Friday evening sermons on the Lord’s Supper.
Spring 2022 – How Luther Became the Mythical ‘Here I Stand” Hero by Samuel L.Young
On April 18, 1521, Martin Luther made his famous address before CharlesV and the Diet of Worms. The earliest reports of the Diet attested that Luther switched to German for his final declaration.
Winter 2021: “Revisiting Humanism and the Urban Reformation” by Amy Nelson Burnett
Virtually every textbook account of the Reformation repeats the claim that Erasmus laid the egg that Luther hatched.
500th Anniversary of Luther at the Diet of Worms
In observance of the 500th anniversary of Luther's "Here I stand" moment at the Diet of Worms, LQ is pleased to offer this excellent article from the latest issue, "The Diet and Edict of Worms (1521)" by Theodor Dieter.