Two words characterize Luther's world and our own: change and uncertainty. The end of the 15th century was not unlike the end of our century - a time of religious and philosophical upheaval. Luther's voice is a reassuring reminder of the decisive impact God's Word can have on church and culture alike.

LUTHER DIGEST, the annual abridgment of Luther studies (the only publication of its kind in the United States), is designed for pastors and lay theologians; college, university, and seminary students and teachers; sixteenth-century historians, libraries and church book racks - for all who want to stay abreast of the timely, immense work being done in Luther studies today. From among the literary forms of paraphrase, annotation, precis and the like, one advantage of the digest is to draw the reader into the world of the author - to allow the author to speak and persuade.

Our editor is the distinguished and internationally known Luther scholar, Prof. Emeritus Kenneth Hagen of Marquette University, and our publisher is the Luther Academy (USA) which is committed to the importance of biblical confessional Lutheranism in the best tradition of historically responsible theological scholarship.

2006 celebrates LUTHER DIGEST's fourteenth anniversary of annual publication of the best in transcontinental Luther studies. All articles and books are translated to English if necessary and abridged by Luther scholars. The abridgments are included in LUTHER DIGEST only after they have been critiqued and approved by the authors. In addition, Volumes Four to Fourteen are comprehensively indexed and Volumes Three to Fourteen are illustrated with biblical and historical woodcuts and engravings.

We are in a working relationship with the Luther Study group in South Korea and we share resources with Luther-Bulletin in Germany and with Luther.Zeitschrift der Luther-Gesellschaft in the Netherlands.

We invite and encourage you to subscribe now to LUTHER DIGEST to stay abreast of the latest and best in transcontinental Luther studies - a reassuring voice for our turbulent times.

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