{"id":7659,"date":"2025-11-19T03:49:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T03:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=7659"},"modified":"2025-11-22T21:12:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:12:50","slug":"promissio-the-reformational-turn-in-luthers-theology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=7659","title":{"rendered":"Promissio: The Reformational Turn in Luther&#8217;s Theology"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7659\" class=\"elementor elementor-7659\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-252fa0e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"252fa0e\" 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-2c00c36\" data-id=\"2c00c36\" 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-9d7c2fa elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"9d7c2fa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\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<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6a354bd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"6a354bd\" 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-2a4edbb\" data-id=\"2a4edbb\" 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-679c9a6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"679c9a6\" 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><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7194 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/bayer-02192025-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"Oswald Bayer\" width=\"191\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/bayer-02192025-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/bayer-02192025.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/>By Oswald Bayer.<\/p><p>Translated by Jeffrey G. Silcock. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2025. 464 pp.<\/p><p>One of the most important and illuminating works of modern Luther scholarship is now available in English, thanks to Fortress Press, Lutheran Quarterly Books, and Jeffrey Silcock, who has been translating Bayer\u2019s writings for many years now with the author\u2019s active cooperation. This book, which combines Bayer\u2019s doctoral dissertation and <em>Habilitation<\/em> thesis, is his fundamental contribution to Luther research and the basis of his later work in systematic theology and ethics. This publication in English comes to us with a new preface and retrospective afterword by Bayer, as well as a translator\u2019s preface.<\/p><p>Bayer\u2019s method is modeled on New Testament historical criticism, supported by close literary reading of selected texts carefully situated in historical context. Rather than a broad, quasi-Hegelian history where a key idea unfolds with a kind of inevitability over time, Bayer offers painstaking exegesis of a relatively small number of texts in which Luther is working out key insights that came as a surprise to him\u2014including the insight that earlier scholars called his \u201cbreakthrough\u201d (<em>Durchbruch<\/em>) and Bayer calls his \u201creformational turn\u201d (<em>reformatorische Wende<\/em>).<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/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<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f2b0a67 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"f2b0a67\" 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-755ff5d\" data-id=\"755ff5d\" 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-ebc9266 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"ebc9266\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\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>By Oswald Bayer. 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