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Luther's Works on CD-ROM. Version 1.0. Edited by Jaroslav Pelikan and Helmut T. Lehmann. Fortress/Concordia, $179.00. MY LIBRARY BOASTS seven linear feet of red-bound volumes of Luther's Works, American Edition [...]

Luther's Works on CD-Rom. Edited by Jaroslav Pelikan and Helmut T. Lehmann (Fortress Press; Concordia Publishing House, $179). In addition to the complete 55-volume set of the American Edition of [...]

'To my knowledge,' Bruce D. Marshall notes in his foreword to this welcomed volume, 'no systematic theologian of his generation commented on the Bible as extensively as [Jenson] did.' Likewise, [...]

Abstract This article investigates an uncharted facet of Martin Luther's Hebrew translation method. It is one of the more fascinating aspects of his translation, which demonstrates both the complexity of [...]

General Studies Surveys Cameron, Euan. The European Reformation. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Hillerbrand, Hans. The Division of Christendom: Christianity in the Sixteenth Century. Louisville, KY: Westminster John [...]

Abstract The 2017 commemoration of the Reformation is an opportunity to reflect on the dynamic of the Reformation as a phenomenon of change, change that seems to be needed in [...]

Abstract While Luther did not intend to start a Reformation with his 95 Theses, the increasingly sharp conflict with the ecclesiastical authorities led to a separation between Luther and his [...]

Abstract This article argues that the commemoration of the Reformation is not just a time to look back historically, but an occasion to reflect where reform and reformation is needed [...]

* Everything Happens with Absolute Necessity Among the quotations from Luther's works condemned by the pope in 1520 was the statement that free will is something that exists in name [...]

Some notable and common interpretations of Hagar's and Ishmael's story are Christian in origin, but fall short of higher Christian ideals of faith, hope, and charity. This essay contains evaluations of historic interpretations and constructive suggestions about how Christians might best understand Hagar and Ishmael today. Keywords Hagar, Ishmael, Genesis 16-25, Galatians 4, Allegory, Etiology, Tropology, Luther, Introduction On the whole, Abraham's second wife Hagar and their son Ishmael have usually not fared well in Christian interpretations. Despite significant methodological variety, the most influential historic interpretations of [...]

I don't believe in heroes. However, if I did Dietrich Bonhoeffer would be at the top of my list of people to follow, adore, and emulate. My first-born child is [...]

Recent studies by Warren Carter and Boris Repschinski have argued that the notice in Matt 1:21 that Jesus 'will save his people from their sins' signals a major theme to [...]

Few ideas have impacted the church more than reform, but in recent centuries it virtually disappeared from theological discourse. That changed on December 22, 2005, when Pope Benedict XVI, in his address to the Roman Curia, introduced 'hermeneutic of reform' as the proper category for interpreting Vatican II. John O'Malley here traces the history of the idea of reform, describes its meaning in different contexts, and shows how the problem of change is at its very core. He then shows how Vatican H dealt with the problem and concludes with an analysis of Benedict's address., IN THE WEST FEW IDEAS have enjoyed a longer, more complex, and, in many instances, more disruptive history than reform. Expressed through a number of terms, of which the most [...]

The Birkat ha-minim, the twelfth blessing in the Shemoneh Esreh or Eighteen Benedictions, has played an important role in some reconstructions of early Christian history. (1) In 1964, for example, [...]

The second book of Samuel was a neglected work in the theological, exegetical, and liturgical traditions of the Western church from the Patristic era through the Protestant Reformation. The theological [...]

It follows from this argument that all are consecrated priests through baptism, that there is no true, basic difference between laymen and priest's, princes and bishops, between religious and secular, [...]

IN a provocatively titled 2005 book, Mark Noll and Carolyn Nystrom wondered Is the Reformation Over? (1) While not presuming to answer their query, the present essay argues that a [...]

Eucharistic Economy Attention to terminology gets us going in the right direction. While it's common currently to reach for the word 'worship' to describe what Christians do when they assemble [...]

This essay explores the continuing crisis in ecumenism and, reflecting specifically on Lutheran-Roman Catholic bilateral dialogues, makes the case that the crisis may be the logical outcome of the oppositional methodology employed throughout the previous four decades of bilateral dialogues. It then explores the use of metaphoric process, speech-act theory, and the 'genre bidisciplinary dialogue' to propose a new model that might produce different results, Finally, the essay explores the Reformation formula of simul iustus et peccator and Karl Rahner's essay, 'Justified and Sinner at the Same Time,' both to demonstrate how the model of bidisciplinary dialogue might be utilized and to illustrate the types of breakthroughs such a model might facilitate., The ecumenical movement is in crisis. This observation has been so widely noted that the claim very nearly has become cliched. Among the first to observe the crisis in ecumenism [...]

As Protestants, we are familiar with the equation of Scripture and God's Word. Such identification was first introduced In 1536 by the Swiss reformer Heinrich Bullinger at the very beginning [...]

At the age of seventeen Johann Sebastian Bach composed two keyboard pieces as tributes to people who were beloved by him in his comparatively young life. With one, the Capriccio [...]

In the wake of the investiture struggle and against the background of burgeoning humanist thought, Martin Luther's affirmation of the secular realm as a discrete area of divine activity may [...]

Fasting has an ancient and revered place in the many religious traditions that human communities have fostered throughout history and across the globe. In India, to take a modern example, [...]

Translucence: Religion, the Arts, and Imagination. Edited by Carol Gilbertson and Gregg Muilenburg. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2004. 220 pages. Paper. $18.00. This is a collection of essays that grew out of [...]

Martin Luther, writing in his Betbuchlein in 1522, declared: Among the many harmful books and doctrines which are misleading and deceiving Christians and give rise to countless false beliefs, I [...]

In 1996, Bernhard Lohse wondered if the Luther presented by some would recognize the Luther described by others. (2) Trying to recognize the 'political' Luther would be especially difficult. On [...]

A common uncritical criticism claims that dogma robs humans of the freedom to think and act. This dogmatic pronouncement reflects a sad misunderstanding concerning the function and meaning of dogma. [...]

The Reformed witness to grace may be even more needed today than it was in the sixteenth century, since now Pelagianism seems comfortably at home in the Reformed churches. But the question is whether 'sovereign grace' requires the predestinarianism that the Reformers took over from Augustine., At Miletus, we are told, the Apostle Paul sent for the elders of the church at Ephesus and in his farewell address gave a memorable profession of his calling: 'I [...]

The challenge for ecumenical social ethics today The overarching realities of economic globalization raise significant challenges for ecumenical social ethics today. Countless organizations throughout the world are addressing these challenges, [...]

Abstract This article analyzes the Lucan discipleship text (Luke 9:57-62) using Klaus Berger's history-of-effect (wirkungsgeschtliche) hermeneutic. After reviewing the text's reception history and Berger's rhetorical approach, it is argued that [...]

Paul uses a rich variety of metaphors to express the significance of Jesus' death. Far from giving permission to those in power to silence the powerless, the cross becomes the paradigm of self-sacrificing service for the whole community of faith., IN 1970 INTERPRETATION devoted an issue to 'The Significance of the Death of Jesus.' The volume included the English translation of the report of the Theological Committee of the Evangelische [...]

WHEN ATTENTION turns to justification, that central distinctive doctrine of the Protestant Reformation, Roman Catholics typically think of Luther's views. This study, however, published on the eve of the 450th [...]

Key xx/xx = issue number/page number Issue numbers: No. 1: January 2-9 No. 2: January 16-23 No. 3: January 30-February 6 No. 4: February 13-20 No. 5: February 27-March 6 [...]

1. September 11 NINE-ELEVEN' HAS BECOME a shorthand reference to the shocking day when four hijacked airliners crashed into the World Trade Center's twin towers, into a side of the [...]

Henry Melchior Muhlenberg: The Roots of 250 Years of Organized Lutheranism in North America. Edited by John W. Kleiner. Studies in Religion and Society 41. Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 1998. xii [...]

Fortress 1. The Wrath of Jonah: The Crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Rosemary Radford Ruether and Herman J. Ruether 2. Sacred Choices: The Right to Contraception [...]

Oxford 1. Buddhism: The Illustrated Guide edited by Kevin Trainor 2. The Oxford Guide to Ideas & Issues of the Bible edited by Bruce M. Metzger and Michael D. Coogan [...]

Sigmund Freud speaks of three offenses against the human love of self. The first blow is 'cosmological' and is associated with the name Copernicus. The second blow is 'biological' and [...]