Luther Digest, Volume 13 (2005)

I. Scripture

Ulrich Asendorf. “Scripture and Dogma. Regarding the Systematic Aspect of Luther’s Theology.”       

Siegfried Kreuzer. “The Message of Justification in the Old Testament.”

Franz Posset. “Martin Luther’s Reference to Bernard of Clairvaux’s Meditation on Psalm 31:2.”

Johannes Schwanke. “Luther on Creation.”

II. The Pastoral Luther

Kenneth Hagen. “A Critique of Wingren  on Luther  on Vocation.”

Traugott Koch. “Luther’s Reformatory Understanding of Prayer.”

Peter Vogt. “Ecclesia Simul Justa et Peccatrix. Speaking about the Holiness of the Church from a Reformation Perspective.”

Markus Wriedt. “Luther on Call and Ordination: A Look at Luther and the Ministry.”

III. Luther in Historical Context

Sven Grosse. ”Renaissance-Humanism and Reformation: Lorenzo Valla and his Relevance in the Controversy Concerning the Freedom of the Will during the Reformation Era.”

James Turner Johnson. “Aquinas and Luther on War and Peace: Sovereign Authority and the Use of Armed Force.”

Jens-Martin Kruse. “The Significance of the University Professors at Wittenberg for the Beginning of the Reformation.”

Gregory J. Miller. “Fighting Like a Christian: The Ottoman Advance and the Development of Luther’s Doctrine of Just War.”

Thomas Osborne. “Faith, Philosophy, and the Nominalist Background to Luther’s Defense of the Real Presence.”

IV. Theology of the Cross

Alberto L. Garcia. “Signposts for Global Witness in Luther’s Theology of the Cross.”

Won Yong Ji. “Luther’s ‘Theology of the Cross’ and Eastern Thought.”

Robert Kolb. “Luther on the Theology of the Cross.”

Jos E. Vercruysse. “Luther’s Theology of the Cross and its Ecclesiological and Ecumenical Implications.”

Timothy J. Wengert. “‘Peace, Peace…Cross, Cross’: Reflections on How Martin Luther Relates the Theology of the Cross to Suffering.”

V. Special Issues

Matthieu Arnold. “The Expectation of the Last Day according to Luther.”

Dennis Bielfeldt. “Luther and the Strange Language of Theology: How ‘New’ is the Nova Lingua?”

Wilfried Härle. “Luther’s Reformation Discovery – Then and Today.”

Christine Helmer. “God From Eternity to Eternity: Luther’s Trinitarian  Understanding.”

Helmar Junghans. “The History, Use and Significance of the Weimar Luther Edition.”

Bruce D. Marshall. “Justification as Declaration and Deification.”

Johannes Jhrgen Siegmund. “Martin Luther’s Importance for Hanns Lilje.”

Klaas Zwanepol. “Dogma as nota. An exploration of some writings of Martin Luther from around 1540.”

Klaas Zwanepol. “Martin Luther and Happiness. An Interpretation.”

VI. Family and Foes

Dick Akerboom. “Katharina von Bora and Her Influence on Martin Luther.”

Mark U. Edwards, Jr. “Luther on His Opponents.”

Rudolf K. and Marilynn Morris Markwald. Katharina von Bora: A Reformation Life.

Index, Scripture Citations, and Announcements.