Luther Digest, Volume 9 (2001)

I. The Two Orders

  Robert J. Bast.  “From Two Kingdoms to Two Tables: The Ten Commandments and the Christian Magistrate.”

  Jan Herman Brinks. “Luther and the German State.”

  James M. Estes. “The Role of Godly Magistrates in the Church: Melanchthon as Luther’s Interpreter and Collaborator.”

  Igor Kišš. “Diagram of Luther’s Two-Kingdoms’ Doctrine as an Aid to Instruction.”

  Donald H. Kobe. “Copernicus and Martin Luther: An Encounter between Science and Religion.”

II. Luther and the Tradition

  Kaarlo Arffman. “The Justification of Infant Baptism in the Early Church Adopted by the Theology of Wittenberg, 1521-1536.”

  Gustav Adolf Benrath. “The So-called Pre-reformers in Their Significance for the Early Reformation.”

  Geoffrey Dipple. “Anti-Franciscanism in the Early Reformation: The Nature and Sources of Criticism.”

  Kent A. Heimbigner. “The Evolution of Luther’s Reception of the Early Church Fathers in Eucharistic Controversy: A                 Consideration of Selected Works, 1518-1529.”

  Denis R. Janz. “Syllogism or Paradox: Aquinas and Luther on Theological Method.”

  Athina Lexutt. “Luther’s Relationship to Mysticism: a Church-historical Attempt at the Solution of the Question: Mysticism and Protestantism—Heavenly Pair or Infernal Duo?”

  Karl-Heinz zur Mühlen. “The Meaning of the Auctoritas Patrum in Martin Luther’s Treatise ‘On the Councils and the Church’.”

  Mark Sander. “Cyprian’s On the Lord’s Prayer: A Patristic Signpost in Luther’s Penitential Theology.”

  Kurt-Victor Selge. “Expressions of Medieval Traditions in Luther’s Early Theology.”

III. Theology of the Cross

              Hubertus Blaumeiser. “In the Crucified Christ Is the True Theology.”

  Martin B. Bourgine. “Crux sola. Luther’s Christology in Light of His Theologia Crucis.”

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

               Michael Plathow. “Martin Luther in Heidelberg. Die Heidelberger Disputation.”

  Hans Schwarz. “The Contemporary Relevance of Luther’s Insistence on the Otherness of God.”

IV. Freedom and the Will

  Oswald Bayer. “Freedom? The Anthropological Concepts in Luther and Melanchthon Compared.”

              Burnell F. Eckardt, Jr. “Bondage of the Will: Calvin and Luther.”

              Egil Grislis. “Martin Luther’s ‘The Freedom of a Christian’ Revisited.”

              Dietrich Korsch. “Freedom as Sum: About the Form of Christian Life according to Martin Luther.”

              Kyle A. Pasewark. “Predestination as a Condition of Freedom.”       

V. Ecumenical Significance

 Carl F. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson, eds. Union with Christ: the New Finnish Interpretation of Luther.

 Kurt Hünerbein. “Dr. Martin Luther’s Ecumenical Legacy.”

 Karl Lehmann. “Luther as Teacher of the Faith? The Ecumenical Significance of His Catechisms.”

VI. The Pastoral Luther

 Lowell C. Green.  “What Does This Mean? Luther’s Exposition of the Decalogue in Relation to Law and Gospel with Special Reference to Johann Michael Reu.”

 James D. Heiser. The Limits of Liturgical Innovation in Light of Martin Luther’s "Exhortation to the Christians in Livonia Concerning Public Worship and Unity (1525).

 Helmar Junghans. “Luther’s Reform of Worship—Concept or Quandary.”

  Robin A. Leaver. “Luther's Catechism Hymns, 3-8: Creed, Lord’s Prayer, Baptism, Confession, Lord’s Supper, and Confessional    Substance.”  

  Bryan D. Spinks. “Adiaphora: Marriage and Funeral Liturgies.”

  Timothy J. Wengert. “Luther on Children: Baptism and the Fourth Commandment.”

  Jared Wicks, S.J.  “Applied Theology at the Deathbed: Luther and the Late-Medieval Tradition of the Ars moriendi.”

VII. Special Issues

  T.H.M. Akerboom. “‘There will be great signs...’ An Exploration of Luther’s Understanding of the Apocalypse in the Context of his Time.”

  Carl Axel Aurelius. “Luther in Sweden.”

  J. P. Boendermaker. “Karl Barth’s View of Luther in 1933: The ‘Yes’ under the ‘No’.”

  Egil Grislis. “Martin Luther and the World Religions.”

  Berndt Hamm. “Why Did Faith Become the Central Concept of the Christian Life for Luther?”

  Helmar Junghans. “Martin Luther and Rhetoric.”

  Robert Kolb. “God Kills to Make Alive: Romans 6 and Luther’s Understanding of Justification (1535).”

  Birgit Stolt. Martin Luther’s Rhetoric of the Heart.

  Index, Scripture Citations, and Announcements.