Lutheran

Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther

Way to Live: Christian Practices for Teens

The Lutheran Handbook

The essential field guide for all things Lutheran. Confirmands — or anyone hiking the trails of life's adventures and challenges — will want to pack this handy illustrated field guide to Lutheran theology and culture. This enjoyable, easy-to-read, reliable, all-in-one collection helps you understand the essential information about our theology, culture and Lutheran way of life. Organized by Church Stuff, Everyday Stuff and Bible Stuff with how-to's like "How to Forgive Someone" and lists like "The Top-10 Bible Villains." Encapsulates essential principles of the Christian life, making many of the complexities of our religious tradition accessible for contemporary seekers.

Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings (w/ CD-ROM)

These previously published introductions together with the CD-ROM provide a remarkably comprehensive Christian theology resource. The set consists of two books in paper Hodgson and King's Christian Theology and the historical anthology, Readings in Christian Theology accompanied by a CD-ROM that contains the entirety of these two volumes and many pedagogical features. Their compilation on CD-ROM contains primary texts of important classic and contemporary theologians; well-crafted topical essays that compare and contrast major historical contributions to each theological issue; and fresh reconstuctions of key theological themes in light of recent intellectual, social, and pedagogical challenges.

Genius of Luther's Theology, The: A Wittenberg Way of Thinking for the Contemporary Church

This volume offers a unique approach to the study of the great German reformer, Martin Luther. Robert Kolb and Charles Arand offer an introduction to two significant themes that form the heart of Luther's theology. The first theme concerns what it means to be truly human. For Luther, "passive righteousness" described the believer's response to God's grace. But there was also an "active righteousness" that defined the relationship of the believer to the world. The second theme involves God's relation to his creation through his Word, first creating and then redeeming the world. Clergy and general readers will find here a helpful introduction to Luther's theology and its continuing importance for applying the good news of the gospel to the contemporary world.

The Spirituality of the Cross: The Way of the First Evangelicals

Luther's Small Catechism, with Explanation

On Being a Theologian of the Cross: Reflections on Luther's Heidelberg Disputation, 1518 (Theology)

Three Treatises

The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church

Commissioned in 1993, this new translation of The Book of Concord brings a new generation of scholarship and sensitivities to bear on the foundational texts of Lutheran identity. The fifth English translation since 1851, this edition succeeds that edited by Theodore Tappert published in 1959 by Muhlenburg Press.

A review of the text in light of a mountain of new scholarship and other factors dictated the new translation and apparatus, including changes in the English language over the past forty years, differences in the training and preparation of seminarians and pastors, limitations in the introductions and annotations to the various parts of the book, new knowledge of the history and theology of these very documents, and the occasional error in Tappert's translation.

Kolb and Wengert's team of leading Reformation historians was augmented by consultation with one hundred other scholars and teachers who use The Book of Concord continually, and two other teams of scholars who have reviewed the translations. In coming years, two volumes of related documents will follow.

Benefits of this new translation: Expanded introductions and annotations offer richer historical context New translation aims at accessible but accurate translation Format is easier to read and use Leading American scholars have been involved or consulted