Volume 12 - 2004

I. Scripture

  • Theo Bell. “The Magnificat—Translated and Explained by Dr. Martin Luther.”
  • Mary Jane Haemig. “The Other John in John: Luther and Eck on John the Baptist (John 1:19-28).”
  • Arnold J. Koelpin. “Preparing a New Bible Translation in Luther’s Day.”
  • Mickey L. Mattox. “Sancta Sara, mater ecclesiae. Martin Luther’s Catholic Exegesis of Genesis 18:1-15.”
  • John K. Riches. “Theological Interpretation of the New Testament and the History of Religions: Some Reflections in the Light of Galatians 5:17.”
  • Birgit Stolt. “‘... And Feel It in Your Heart:’ Luther’s Bible Translation from the Viewpoint of Modern Language and Translation Research.”
  • Paul F. M. Zahl. “Mistakes of the New Perspective on Paul.”

 

II. The Pastoral Luther

  • Matthieu Arnold. “Making and Breaking of the Marriage Bond according to Bucer and Luther.”
  • David Cornick. “The Reformation Crisis in Pastoral Care.”
  • Won Yong Ji. “Mission and Church Renewal: Scanning the Asian Horizon for the Twenty-First Century.”
  • Helmar Junghans. “Luther’s Table Talks.”
  • Gerald S. Krispin. “A Study in Luther’s Pastoral Theology.”
  • Carter Lindberg. “Luther on Poverty.”
  • Johann Werner Mödlhammer. “The ‘One Church of Christ.’ Considerations regarding the Catholic Understanding of Church with Reference to ‘Dominus Iesus’.”
  • Wolfhart Pannenberg. “‘Outside Us’—Luther’s Contribution to Christian Piety.”
  • Wolfhart Pannenberg. “Luther’s Contribution to Christian Spirituality.”
  • Franz Posset. “Teacher as Care of Souls: Ecumenical Potential of the Concept of the Care of Souls in the Old Luther.”
  • Jared Wicks, S.J. “The Significance of the ‘Ecclesial Communities’ of the Reformation.”
  • Friedrich Wintzer. “Luther as Preacher.”
  • Christian Zippert. “Luther’s Presence in His Hymns.”

 

III. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

  • Johannes Brosseder. “Martin Luther on God as Father.”
  • Jean-Paul Gabus. “The Experience of the Spirit in Protestant Religious Revivals.”
  • Christine Helmer. “More Difficult to Believe? Luther on Divine Omnipotence.”
  • Frank D. Macchia. “Justification through New Creation: The Holy Spirit and the Doctrine by which the Church Stands or Falls.”
  • Dennis Ngien. “Trinity and Divine Passibility in Martin Luther’s ‘Theologia Crucis’.”
  • Otto Hermann Pesch. “A Little Plea for an ‘ascetic’ Doctrine of the Triune God. Following the Example of Thomas Aquinas and Martin Luther.”
  • Birgit Stolt. “The Positive God-the-Father Image  of the Older Luther.”

 

IV. Special Issues

  • Oswald Bayer. “Luther’s Entire Theology.”
  • Gottfried Hammann. “The ‘Joyous Exchange’: Theological Meditation on a Key Theme of Lutheran Spirituality.”
  • Christine Helmer. “Luther’s Theology of Glory.”
  • Gottfried Hoffmann. “The Twofold Use of iustificari according to Apology IV, 72.”
  • Lois Malcolm. “What Justification Has to Do with Idolatry and Blasphemy.”
  • John Arthur Maxfield. “Catholic or Heretic? Martin Luther as Rebel and Reformer.”
  • Michael Parsons. “The Apocalyptic Luther: His Noahic Self-Understanding.”
  • Michael Plathow. “Reality—Revealed in the Cross. Martin Luther’s Theology of the Cross in Contemporary Context.”
  • Gerhard Sauter. “The Proclamation of the Resurrected One as Promise of Life with God.”
  • Harold Wells. “Theology of the Cross and the Theologies of Liberation.”
  • Karl-Heinz zur Mühlen. “Simul iustus et peccator in the Theology of Martin Luther.”      

                                   

V. Luther in Historical Context

  • Berndt Hamm. “Johann von Staupitz (ca. 1468-1524)—Reformer of the Late Middle Ages and ‘Father of the Reformation’.”
  • Gottfried G. Krodel. “Luther as a Creative Writer: The Explanation of the Second Article of the Apostles’ Creed in the Small Catechism.”
  • Timothy Maschke. “Contemporaneity: A Hermeneutical Perspective in Martin Luther’s Work.”
  • Josef Pilvousek. “Martin Luther and Erfurt.”
  • Franz Posset. “From the Corrupter of the Faith to the Father in the Faith: 100 Years of Catholic Luther Research.
  • George H. Tavard. “Medieval Piety in Luther’s Commentary on the Magnificat.”

 

Index, Scripture Citations, and Announcements.