{"id":7885,"date":"2026-03-10T02:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=7885"},"modified":"2026-03-16T13:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:24:10","slug":"spring-2026-featured-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=7885","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2026 Featured Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7885\" class=\"elementor elementor-7885\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-54530b6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"54530b6\" 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-1df9a19\" data-id=\"1df9a19\" 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-7f3e91c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7f3e91c\" 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<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Spring 2026 featured book review<\/h2>\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-b502b5a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"b502b5a\" 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-b13e49c\" data-id=\"b13e49c\" 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-aedb043 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"aedb043\" 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<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">United with Christ: Martin Luther and Christian Mysticism<\/h4>\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-ac804c4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"ac804c4\" 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-c84f7ff\" data-id=\"c84f7ff\" 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-5adca27 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5adca27\" 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, 2025. 198 pp. + viii.<\/em><\/p><p>Reviewed by Ronald K. Rittgers.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6883 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/volker-leppin-copy.png\" alt=\"Voker Leppin\" width=\"133\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/volker-leppin-copy.png 273w, https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/volker-leppin-copy-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/>Volker Leppin needs no introduction to readers of LQ. One of Germany\u2019s leading Reformation scholars who now teaches at Yale Divinity School, Leppin stands in the scholarly tradition of Heiko Oberman and Berndt Hamm with his commitment to situating the Reformation in its late-medieval theological context. He is cautious about positing radical breaks between the Reformation and late-medieval Christianity. Transformation, not rupture, is his most important interpretive category.<\/p><p>This book is informed by Leppin\u2019s Reformation-as-transformation thesis. Its central argument is that \u201cwe cannot understand Luther without mysticism\u201d. The book explores the myriad ways that Luther was influenced by certain strands of medieval mysticism<br \/>along with how he transformed this mysticism in the development of his evangelical theology.<\/p><p>To read the full article, please click <a title=\"Here\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Rittgers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/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>Spring 2026 featured book review United with Christ: Martin Luther and Christian Mysticism By Volker Leppin<\/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-7885","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\/7885","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=7885"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7927,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7885\/revisions\/7927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}