{"id":7501,"date":"2025-08-24T02:50:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T02:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=7501"},"modified":"2025-09-03T23:44:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:44:02","slug":"winter-2025-featured-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=7501","title":{"rendered":"Autumn 2025 Featured Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7501\" class=\"elementor elementor-7501\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-93b6db5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"93b6db5\" 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-7588b87\" data-id=\"7588b87\" 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-0da3f61 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"0da3f61\" 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\">\u201cWyr gleuben all an eynen Gott.\u201d Das Nicaeno-Constantinopolitanum in\nseiner Bedeutung f\u00fcr Martin Luther und Philipp Melanchthon. <\/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-615993b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"615993b\" 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-17f18b3\" data-id=\"17f18b3\" 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-b6137ca elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b6137ca\" 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\tBy Jennifer Wasmuth. T\u00fcbingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024. 586 pp. + xvi.\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6881 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/robert-kolb-400x400-copy-300x300.png\" alt=\"Robert Kolb\" width=\"126\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/robert-kolb-400x400-copy-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/robert-kolb-400x400-copy-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/robert-kolb-400x400-copy.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 126px) 100vw, 126px\" \/><br>\n<em>Reviewed by Robert Kolb<\/em>\n<br>\n<br>Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon anchored their call for\u00a0reform in Holy Scripture and understood it as the Word of the Holy\u00a0Trinity, whose identity is summarized and confessed authoritatively in\u00a0the creeds of the ancient church. In his <i>Three Symbols or Creeds of the\u00a0Christian Church<\/i> (1538), Luther treated the Apostles\u2019 Creed, the Athanasian Creed, and the <i>Te Deum Laudamus<\/i>, printing the Nicene Creed\u00a0at the end with the brief comment, \u201cit is sung in the mass every\u00a0Sunday\u201d (<i>Luther\u2019s Works<\/i> 45:228). Wasmuth finds that the Apostles\u2019\u00a0Creed assumed great significance for Luther as a catechetical tool\u00a0and that the Athanasian Creed provided him with the terminology\u00a0that he used in explicating his doctrine of God and demonstrating his catholicity. In contrast, Luther seldom discussed the Nicene\u00a0Creed explicitly in sermons and theological treatises; however, Wasmuth shows that its terms and phrases supplied him with fundamental elements of his confession of faith. Even in the disputations of\u00a0his later years that touched on Trinitarian issues, his attention to the\u00a0Nicene Creed was largely reactive to others\u2019 use of it. Nonetheless,\u00a0it fed into his Trinitarian and Christological positions as a decisive\u00a0secondary authority.\n<br>\n\nRead the entire review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/KOLB.1-LUT_39-3_Print.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\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>Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon anchored their call for<br \/>\nreform in Holy Scripture and understood it as the Word of the Holy<br \/>\nTrinity.<\/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-7501","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\/7501","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=7501"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7527,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501\/revisions\/7527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}