Teaching Reformation : essays in honor of Timothy J. Wengert / edited by Luka Ilić and Martin J. Lohrmann

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Publisher: Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, 2021Description: xx, 268 p. ; 24 cmContent type:
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  • 1506467660
  • 9781506467665
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Contents:
Introduction : Timothy J. Wengert's scholarship for the church / Paul Rorem -- Part 1. Luther, Melanchthon, and Reformation Colleagues -- Martin Luther's Tractatus de indulgentiis : a commentary on an unknown text / Theodor Dieter -- Freedom and responsibility : Luther's reformational thinking in his treatises of 1520 and their significance for today / Irene Dingel -- Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) and Urbanus Rhegius (1489-1541) / Scott Hendrix -- What the fathers thought : Melanchthon and Oecolampadius on the Eucharist / Amy Nelson Burnett -- Joachim Mörlin, architect of Concordist theology / Robert Kolb -- Albert Hardenberg, Philip Melanchthon, and the "openly hostile" preachers of Bremen : a cautionary tale / Hans Wiersma -- Part 2. Reading and Interpreting Texts in the Reformation -- The lectures on Judges : a witness to transitions in the Reformation Movement in Wittenberg / Wolker Leppin -- Luther, the genitive, and the Gospel / Erik H. Herrmann -- Foreknowledge and the divine counsel in Calvin's exegesis of Acts 2:23 and 4:28 / Richard A. Muller -- Sam, sham, or Satan? Reformation readings of 1 Samuel 28 / Derek Cooper -- Chronology from world creation up to Luther's Time : an unknown single-sheet print by Melanchthon (1521) and a fragmentary letter from Luther to Melanchthon (1540 or 1541) / Ulrich Bubenheimer -- Melanchthon's Historiae : themes and sources / Stefan Rhein -- Part 3. Forming the Faith -- Ever at rest : Martin Luther's Sabbatarianism / Mickey L. Mattox -- Diluting Luther : baptism in sixteenth-century catechisms / Mark D. Tranvik -- Henry Melchior Mühlenberg's catechetical efforts in colonial America, 1742-52 / Mary Jane Haemig -- Faith and love in Luther's small catechism / Martin J. Lohrmann -- Courage to believe / Krisi Stjerna -- A Lutheran visits La Sagrada Família : further reflections on the marks of the church / Gordon Lathrop.
Summary: "Presented on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, this collection of essays honors the life and work of Dr. Timothy J. Wengert, a pastor and noted Reformation historian who brings to scholarship a deep sense of its practical dimensions in the life of the church. In these essays, Wengert's students, colleagues, and peers follow in their honoree's footsteps by highlighting the implications of a rich tapestry of Reformation topics." -- Provided by publisher
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Standardlitteratur Johannelunds teologiska högskola Huvudbiblioteket Historisk och Praktisk teologi (242-299) 270.6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 166116787

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction : Timothy J. Wengert's scholarship for the church / Paul Rorem -- Part 1. Luther, Melanchthon, and Reformation Colleagues -- Martin Luther's Tractatus de indulgentiis : a commentary on an unknown text / Theodor Dieter -- Freedom and responsibility : Luther's reformational thinking in his treatises of 1520 and their significance for today / Irene Dingel -- Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) and Urbanus Rhegius (1489-1541) / Scott Hendrix -- What the fathers thought : Melanchthon and Oecolampadius on the Eucharist / Amy Nelson Burnett -- Joachim Mörlin, architect of Concordist theology / Robert Kolb -- Albert Hardenberg, Philip Melanchthon, and the "openly hostile" preachers of Bremen : a cautionary tale / Hans Wiersma -- Part 2. Reading and Interpreting Texts in the Reformation -- The lectures on Judges : a witness to transitions in the Reformation Movement in Wittenberg / Wolker Leppin -- Luther, the genitive, and the Gospel / Erik H. Herrmann -- Foreknowledge and the divine counsel in Calvin's exegesis of Acts 2:23 and 4:28 / Richard A. Muller -- Sam, sham, or Satan? Reformation readings of 1 Samuel 28 / Derek Cooper -- Chronology from world creation up to Luther's Time : an unknown single-sheet print by Melanchthon (1521) and a fragmentary letter from Luther to Melanchthon (1540 or 1541) / Ulrich Bubenheimer -- Melanchthon's Historiae : themes and sources / Stefan Rhein -- Part 3. Forming the Faith -- Ever at rest : Martin Luther's Sabbatarianism / Mickey L. Mattox -- Diluting Luther : baptism in sixteenth-century catechisms / Mark D. Tranvik -- Henry Melchior Mühlenberg's catechetical efforts in colonial America, 1742-52 / Mary Jane Haemig -- Faith and love in Luther's small catechism / Martin J. Lohrmann -- Courage to believe / Krisi Stjerna -- A Lutheran visits La Sagrada Família : further reflections on the marks of the church / Gordon Lathrop.

"Presented on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, this collection of essays honors the life and work of Dr. Timothy J. Wengert, a pastor and noted Reformation historian who brings to scholarship a deep sense of its practical dimensions in the life of the church. In these essays, Wengert's students, colleagues, and peers follow in their honoree's footsteps by highlighting the implications of a rich tapestry of Reformation topics." -- Provided by publisher

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