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.