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.