{"id":7279,"date":"2025-06-13T23:37:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T23:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=7279"},"modified":"2025-06-21T22:40:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T22:40:32","slug":"spring-2025-featured-book-review-copy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=7279","title":{"rendered":"summer 2025 Featured Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7279\" class=\"elementor elementor-7279\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-05bdd1c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"05bdd1c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-df8adb7\" data-id=\"df8adb7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-42cf43f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"42cf43f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Sola: Christ, Grace, Faith,  Scripture Alone in Martin Luther\u2019s Theology<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f32268c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"f32268c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-591a4ef\" data-id=\"591a4ef\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-27abc7c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"27abc7c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>By Volker Leppin. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2024. 244 pp.<\/em><\/p><p>\u201c<em>Si Lyra non lyrasset, Lutherus non saltasset.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0 This sixteenth-century jingle, which humorously linked Martin Luther\u2019s \u201cdancing\u201d to the tunes played by Nicholas of Lyra\u2019s exegetical approach, could have been the title for this book. Leppin\u2019s main premise is that we should no longer starkly distinguish medieval and reformatory thinking in Luther for \u201cthere was no abrupt break with the Middle Ages but an incremental transition from the early medieval beginning to the late reformer, never losing all ties to his roots\u201d (187). Yet the title of the book is <em>Sola<\/em>, an allusion to the four \u201cexclusive particles\u201d that came to characterize the novelty of the Reformation: <em>Solus Christus, Sola gratia, Sola fide, Sola Scriptura.<\/em> In an irenic ecumenical spirit, Leppin\u2019s approach seeks to avoid sloganeering, seeing instead these concepts as entry points (\u201cshafts\u201d) that get us to the late medieval roots of Luther\u2019s early theology and thus to a more ecumenical, Catholic-friendly Luther.<\/p><p><em>Read the full review\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Hansen-LUT_39-2_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSi Lyra non lyrasset, Lutherus non saltasset.\u201d This sixteenth-century jingle, which humorously linked Martin Luther\u2019s \u201cdancing\u201d to the<br \/>\ntunes &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7279"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7349,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7279\/revisions\/7349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}