As celebrations of the five-hundredth anniversary of Martin Luther's initiation of the most dramatic reform movement in the history of Christianity approach, 47 essays by historians and theologians from 15 countries provide insight into the background and context, the content, and the impact of
his way of thought. Nineteenth-century Chinese educational reformers, twentieth-century African and Indian social reformers, German philosophers and Christians of many traditions on every continent have found in Luther's writings stimulation and provocation for addressing modern problems.
This volume offers studies of the late medieval intellectual milieus in which his thought was formed, the hermeneutical principles that guided his reading and application of the Bible, the content of his formulations of Christian teaching on specific topics, his social and ethic thought, the ways
in which his contemporaries, both supporters and opponents, helped shape his ideas, the role of specific genre in developing his positions on issues of the day, and the influences he has exercised in the past and continues to exercise today in various parts of the world and the Christian church.
Authors synthesize the scholarly debates and analysis of Luther's thinking and point to future areas of research and exploration of his thought.
Introduction: Luther s Thought and its role in the Twenty-First-Century Global Societies
I. Luther s Life
1. Charlotte Methuen: Luthers Life
II. The medieval background and origins of Luther s thought
2. Theodor Dieter: Luther as Late Medieval Theologian: His
Positive and Negative use of Nominalism and Realism
3. Volker Leppin: Luthers roots in Monastic-Mystical piety
4. Martin Wernisch: Luther and Medieval Reform Movements, Particularly the Hussites
5. Erik Herrmann: Luthers Absorption of Medieval Biblical Interpretation and His Use of the
Church Fathers
6. Robert Rosin: Humanism, Luther and the Wittenberg Reformation
7. Gerhard Müller: Luthers Transformation of Medieval Thought: Discontinuity and Continuity
8. Volker Leppin: Luthers Transformation of Medieval Thought: Continuity and Discontinuity
III. The
hermeneutical principles that guided Luther s teaching and preaching
9. Mark Thompson: Luther on God and History
10. Johannes von Lüpke: Luthers Use of Language
11. Vitor Westhelle: Luthers Theologia crucis
12. Robert Kolb: Luthers Hermeneutics of Distinctions: Law and Gospel,
Two Kinds of Righteousness, Two Realms, Freedom and Bondage
IV. Luthers treatment of the traditional topics of western Christian theology
13. Steven Paulson: Luther Doctrine of God
14. Johannes Schwanke: Luther Theology of Creation
15. Notger Slenczka: Luthers
Anthropology
16. L ubomír Batka: Luthers Teaching on Sin and Evil
17. Risto Saaarinen: Justification by Faith: The View of the Mannermaa School
18. Mark Mattes: Luther on Justification as Forensic and Effective
19. Mattheiu Arnold: Luther on Christ s Person and Work
20. Jeffrey
Silcock: Luther on the Holy Spirit and His Use of God s Word
21. Jonathan Trigg: Luther on Baptism and Penance
22. Gordon A. Jensen: Luther and the Lord s Supper
23. David P. Daniel: Luther on the Church
24. Jane E. Strohl: Luthers Eschatology
V. Luthers view of sanctified
living
25. Jane E. Strohl: The Framework for Christian Living: Luther on the Christian s Callings
26. Jane E. Strohl: Luther on Marriage, Sexuality and the Family
27. Ricardo Rieth: Luthers Treatment of Economic Life
28. Eike Wolgast: Luthers Treatment of Political and Societal
Life
29. Carter Lindberg: Piety, Prayer, and Worship in Luthers View of Daily Life
30. Gregory Miller: Luthers Views of Jews and Turks
31. Paul Rajashekar: Luther as a Resource for Christian Dialogue with Other World Religions
VI. The genre in which Luther shaped his
theology
32. Mary Jane Haemig: The Influence of the Genre of Exegetical Instruction, Preaching, and Catechesis on Luther
33. Ronald K. Rittgers: How Luthers Engagement in Pastoral Care Shaped Luthers Theology
34. Anna Vind: Luthers Thought Assumed Form in Polemics
35. Christoph
Burger: Translation of Scripture and Hymns Shaped Luthers Theology
VI. The Impact and Reception of Luther's Thought in History and in the twenty-first Century
36. Timothy J. Wengert: The Wittenberg circle
37. Heribert Smolinsky: Luthers Roman Catholic Critics
38. Amy Nelson
Burnett: Luther and the Schwärmer
39. Irene Dingel: Luthers Authority in the Late Reformation and Protestant Orthodoxy
40. Paul R. Hinlicky: The Use of Luthers Thought in Pietism and the Enlightenment
41. Heinrich Assel: The Use of Luthers Thought in the Nineteenth Century and the Luther
Renaissance
42. Thomas A. Brady, Jr.: Marxist Evaluations of Luthers Thought
43. Theo M. M. A. C. Bell: Roman Catholic Luther Research in the Twentieth Century: From Rejection to Rehabilitation
44. Kenneth G. Appold: Luthers Abiding Significance for World Protestantism
45. Pilgrim W.
K. Lo: Luther and Asia
46. Luther in Africa
47. Nestor Luiz João Beck: Luther Studies in Latin America
Conclusion: Venturing into the Study of Luther
Appendices: Sources and Resources, and Glossary
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Robert Kolb is Professor of Systematic Theology emeritus at Concordia Seminary in Saint Louis, USA. Irene Dingel is Director of the Leibniz-Institute for Europen History, Mainz. Lubomir Batka is Dean of the Lutheran Theological Faculty at Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
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