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WHAT WOULD IT MEAN for mainline Protestants to understand and appropriate the message of Luther's 95 Theses? For all the ballyhoo over the centuries, I have come to wonder whether [...]

In this contribution the author responds to Bruce Marshall's Thomist critique of Barth's theology, at the cost of a certain revision of Barth's mature exploration of the “being-for-others” of the eternal Son in CD IV/1. Affirming the eternity of the Son, the Logos asarkosand thus of the immanent Trinity, socially modeled, the article argues that this revision follows the cutting-edge of Barth's thought and provides a dispositional ontology which both allows for a properly divine mutability in the incarnation and at the same time preserves the freedom of reconciling grace.

This symposium contribution scrutinizes Zahl’s treatise on the Holy Spirit and Christian experience from the perspective of his utilization of Augustine, Luther and Melanchthon. It exposits his argument as a critical retrieval of the early Reformation doctrine of justification by the Spirit’s sanctification which is the gift of faith, recognizable as affective transformation from servile fear to filial trust. It qualifies his genealogy of the discrediting of such affective experience in modern Protestant theology by tracing it to the Osiander controversy and its resolution in the 1580 Formula of Concord’s separation of justification from the Spirit’s sanctifying work in bestowing faith as the gift which receives the gift of Christ in his joyful exchange with the sinful.

How Luther Became the Reformer By Christine Helmer Westminster John Knox, 178 pp., $30.00 paperback A flood of publications accompanied the 500th anniversary in 2017 of Martin Luther's 95 theses. [...]

MY LIFE and work as a theologian was intertwined with Robert W. Jenson--'Jens,' as friends and colleagues addressed him. I discovered him in his book The Triune Identity when I [...]

The article discusses the message of Martin Luther's 95 Theses, citing it's opening statement: "When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent'". It cites on the familiarization of Luther of the canon law, which had distinguished the guilt of sin from the punishment of sin. The article also discusses on the idea of guilt and punishment as reparative rather than retributive endured in solidarity with Christ.

A letter to the editor is presented that responds to the article "Reforming the German Family" by Michael Root in the November 2013 issue, which responds to the document "Between Autonomy and Dependence" by the Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland (EKD) churches.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "The Trials of American Lutheranism," by Robert Benne in the May 2011 issue.