Holy Trinity 2026
Volume 35, Number 3
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Editors’ Introduction
Aaron Moldenhauer

ARTICLES:

Lutheran Schools at the Intersection of the Three Estates
D. Richard Stuckwisch

Sermon concerning the Law’s Arena
Bo Giertz, Translated by Nile Sandeen

A Lutheran Approach to Legislative Prayer
Jedidiah T. Maschke

Three Estates, Two Realms, One Lord
Joel Biermann

Echoes of Luther in Vladimir Solovyov’s Theology of the Two Kingdoms
Nicos Kaloyirou

Three Estates, Two Kingdoms, One King: Temporal Government and the Eternal Gospel
Jonathan Lange

LOGIA FORUM:

• The Politics of Martyrdom

• And Other Authorities

• The Table of Duties and the Three Estates in Lutheran Dogmatics

• Two Kingdoms and Three Estates

• Should Magistrates Enforce the First Table of the Law?

• Will There Always Be an England?

• The Office of the Spirit

• A Great Cloud of Witnesses

• A Great Chasm Has Been Fixed

• How Long?

• The Christian Lives in the Realm of Two Kingdoms

Eastertide 2026
Volume 35, Number 2
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Editors’ Introduction
Jerry Gernander

ARTICLES:

Visiting the Iniquity: Reflections on Psalm 109 on Christ’s Lips and Ours
Adam D. Hensley

Johannes Bugenhagen: Truly Called an Interpreter of the Psalter
Jason Oakland

Alexander Alesius: A Lutheran Interpreter of the Psalms
Robert W. Paul

The Doctrine of the Trinity in the Lutheran Confessional Revival in the Nineteenth Century: Johannes von Hofmann and Gottfried Thomasius
James Ambrose Lee II

COLLOQUIUM FRATRUM:

A Response to Bror Erickson: Bonhoeffer and Infant Baptism
Eric R. Andræ

A Response to Eric Andrae
Bror Erickson

REVIEWS:

Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity
By Paul Kingsnorth. Review by James Ambrose Lee II

Remarriage in Early Christianity
By A. Andrew Das. Review by Justin Hilton

Luther under Scrutiny: Knowledge, Will, and Metaphysics
By Olli-Pekka Vainio. Review by John W. Hoyum

Theo-Politics of the Hussite Movement: From Reform to Revolution
By Martin Pjecha. Review by Richard J. Serina Jr

LOGIA FORUM:

• The Psalter as Prayerbook

• The Jury Is Still Out

• The Psalms Are God’s Word

• On Call

• Holding on to the Pattern of Sound Words

• Isaiah Sings Psalm 22

• The Chief Characteristics of a Good Sermon

• Where Are the Homemakers?

• The Slaughter of the Amalekites

Epiphany 2026
Volume 35, Number 1
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Editors’ Introduction
Jason D. Lane

ARTICLES:

The Hermeneutics of John Calvin and His Predecessors
Martin R. Noland

Flacius and Hooper against the Surplice
Wade Johnston

Noah’s Curse and Noah’s Blessing: Genesis 9:24–25 in Historic Lutheran Exegetical Perspective
Chris Durham

Mutual Conversation and Consolation of Brethren in Luther and the Confessions
Zachary Stuckwisch

REVIEWS:

“Wyr gleuben all an eynen Gott”: Das Nicaeno-Constantinopolitanum in seiner Bedeutung für Martin Luther und Philipp Melanchthon
By Jennifer Wasmuth. Review by Aaron Moldenhauer

On Classical Trinitarianism: Retrieving the Nicene Doctrine of the Triune God
Edited by Matthew Barrett. Review byJack D. Kilcrease

Without the Shedding of Blood There Is No Forgiveness of Sins
By David P. Scaer. Review by Martin R. Noland

Scripture in Doctrinal Dispute: Doctrine and Scripture in Early Christianity, Volume 2
By Frances M. Young. Review by James Ambrose Lee ii

LOGIA FORUM:

• Invalid Ministry

• Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely (As Someone Once Said)

• Do Protestants Have the Lord’s Supper Today?

• Christian Orthodoxy: The Both-And or Either-Or

• Christian Nationalism

• Is It Christian?

• How the Western Church Became Divided Five Ways

• Being Lutheran in America

• Do Lutherans Acknowledge Just Sentiments?

• The Confession of Two Cities

• Preaching a Good Sermon

• Protect Your College-Bound Youth from Decision Theologians

Reformation 2025
Volume 34, Number 4
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Editors’ Introduction
Wade Johnston

ARTICLES:

Pertinacious Parnassus: Classical Languages and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
Paul Lehninger

What Does it Mean to be a Christian Liberal Arts College?
Erling T. Teigen

Georg Sverdrup and Pastoral Formation
James Molstre

Theologizing the Body between Two Resurrections
Jonathan Mumme

REVIEWS:

The Metaphysics of Christology in the Late Middle Ages: William of Ockham to Gabriel Biel
By Richard Cross. Review by Brandon Koble

Participation and Atonement: An Analytic and Constructive Account
By Oliver Crisp. Review by Jack D. Kilcrease

Pain in the Belly: The Haugean Witness in American Lutheranism
By Thomas E. Jacobson. Review by John W. Hoyum

Music — God’s Mysterious Gift: Its Power to Influence Humans and Its Role in God’s Kingdom
By James L. Brauer. Review by Leopoldo A. Sánchez M.

The Uses of Idolatry
By William T. Cavanaugh. Review by William G. Fredstrom

LOGIA FORUM:

• Don’t Think Big!

• Luther on Schools, Languages, and Libraries

• Universitas Semper Reformanda

• An Outline of the History of Christian Higher Education

• Lutheran Higher Education

• The Surprising Word

• Beth Alison Barr and Biblical Womanhood

• Nine Theses on Luther’s Christology

• Going to School

• “Come, Holy Spirit!”

• Lutheran Identity in Lutheran Education

Holy Trinity 2025
Volume 34, Number 3
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Editors’ Introduction
Robert W. Paul

ARTICLES:

Clarifying Marriage Matters: Luther’s Theological Use of Melanchthon’s Dialectics
Brandt C. Klawitter

“Es ist nicht gut das der Mensch alleyn sey”: Luther, the Body, and Sexuality
Charles Lloyd Cortright

The Baptismal Life and Theology of Bo Giertz
Bror Erickson

Worship Practices in Harmony with Our Common Confession of Faith
Martin R. Noland

REVIEWS:

The Body God Gives: A Biblical Response to Transgender Theory
By Robert S. Smith. Review by Mark Mattes

Mere Christian Hermeneutics: Transfiguring What It Means to Read the Bible Theologically
By Kevin Vanhoozer. Review by Jack D. Kilcrease

How Luther Regards Moses: The Lectures on Deuteronomy
By Miles Hopgood. Review by Richard J. Serina Jr

Cultural Sanctification: Engaging the World like the Early Church
By Stephen O. Presley. Review by William G. Fredstrom

Principles of Biblical Interpretation for Everyone
By James W. Voelz. Review by Kendall A. Davis

LOGIA FORUM:

• A Profound Mystery

• Chastity, Children, and Names

• The Relationships between the Moral Law, Religion, and Government

• Single Devotion

• Marriage and Celibacy

• The New Theology of “Participation”

• Spending Time together as Husband and Wife

• Be Fruitful and Multiply

• A Potato Uncomfortably Hot for Handling

• Confessional Address: Christ Is not the Law

• And Is Man a Lord?

Eastertide 2025
Volume 34, Number 2
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Editors’ Introduction
Martin R. Noland

ARTICLES:

The Gospel as Redemption and Ethos: Elert, Harnack, and von Hofmann
Jack Kilcrease

Atonement
David P. Scaer

Adequate Ransom: Chemnitz, the Genus Apotelesmaticum, and the Necessity of Both Natures in the Atonement
Brandon W. Koble 

The Shame of the Cross: An Ignored Aspect of the Suffering of Jesus
Kendall A. Davis

LOGIA CLASSIC:

Atonement Motifs in the Formula of Concord
Paul Lehninger

Catharina von Schlegel and Be Still, My Soul
James R. Eggert

REVIEWS:

Wielding the Sword of the Spirit
By Peter M. Prange. Three volumes. Review by Martin R. Noland

Confessional Lutheranism and German Theological Wissenschaft: Adolf Harleß, August Vilmar, and Johannes Christian Konrad von Hofmann
By James Ambrose Lee II. Review by Jason D. Lane

Ordinary Splendor: Living in God’s Creation
By Lydia Jaeger. Review by William G. Fredstrom

The New Day of Atonement: A Matthean Typology
By Hans M. Moscicke. Review by Robert Hinckley

LOGIA FORUM:

• The Vicarious Atonement: Foundational!

• Atonement and Lord’s Supper

• Atonement Here and Now!

• The Atonement Theory of René Girard

• Eating and Drinking The Atonement

• Brenz again on the Atonement

• Atonement and Blood

• Universal Atonement and the For-You-Ness of the Gospel

• The Lutheran College and University: A LOGIA Reading List

• John Fritz, Preaching Pastoral Care

• A Marquart-ian Call for Repentance

Epiphany 2025
Volume 34, Number 1
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Editors’ Introduction
Paul Lehninger

ARTICLES:

Explanation of the Account of Christ’s Passion and Death
Jesper Brochmand. Translated by Brian J. Lunn

The Eschatology of the World according to Johann Gerhard
Benjamin T. G. Mayes

An Unofficial Response to Dialogue between the International Lutheran Council and the Roman Catholic Church
John A. Maxfield 

An Extended Review of Lutheran Service Book: Companion to the Services
Christopher Ahlman

The Idol of Obedience
Michael Lockwood

REVIEWS:

The Rebirth of Revelation: German Theology in an Age of Reason and History, 1750–1850
By Tuska Benes. Review by James Ambrose Lee II

Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenge in an Anti-Christian Culture
By Aaron M. Renn. Review by Richard J. Serina Jr

The Warrior Savior: A Theology of the Work of Christ
By Owen Strachan. Review by Jack Kilcrease

Mortal Goods: Reimagining Christian Political Duty
By Ephraim Radner. Review by William G. Fredstrom

Humanism in Command or in Crisis? Disciples, Doubters, and Despisers Weigh In
By Michael A. Schuler. Review by Ken Schurb

LOGIA FORUM:

• Liturgical Commonplaces

• Dead Orthodox Lutherans

• The Divine Foundation for the Office of the Holy Ministry

• The Arminian-Calvinist Debate

• C. F. W. Walther’s The True Visible Church

• Preaching the Resurrection of the Body

• Characteristics of a Good Sermon

• Preaching the Law Lawfully

• “Manna”

• Piety of the New Man in Christ

Reformation 2024
Volume 33, Number 4
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Editor's Introduction
Wade Johnston

ARTICLES:

The Purpose of Preaching
Joshua Pfeiffer

The Unity of the Church and Doctrinal Unity: A Schism Between Bo Giertz and Tom Hardt?
Eric R. Andræ

Bonus Pastor: Pastoral Reform in Fifteenth-Century Sermons on the Good Shepherd
Richard J. Serina Jr 

Luther’s Confession Prayer?
Tilman Pfuch, Translated by Steve Zank

LOGIA Classic:
Using the Third Use: Formula of Concord VI and the Preacher’s Task
Jonathan G. Lange

REVIEWS:

Christian Nationalism: A Biblical Guide for Taking Dominion and Discipling Nations
By Andrew Torba and Andrew Isker. Review by Jack Kilcrease

Martin Luther and the Rule of Faith: Reading God’s Word for God’s People
By Todd R. Hains. Review by Michael J. Albrecht

Lutheran Preaching? Law and Gospel Proclamation for Today
Edited by Matthew C. Harrison and John T. Pless. Review by Jerome Gernander

Kierkegaard and Luther
By David Lawrence Coe. Review by Brandon Koble

Origins of New Testament Christology: An Introduction to the Traditions and Titles Applied to Jesus
By Stanley E. Porter and Bryan R. Dyer. Review by Kendall A. Davis

LOGIA FORUM:

• In Memoriam — William Rodney “Rod” Rosenbladt (1942–2024)

• Well Past Time to Stop Digging, Frankie, Old Boy!

• Preaching as Ministers of Christ

• Revealing Self-Talk

• A Lutheran Response to Marxism

• The KKK and the Missouri Synod

• The Integration of Missouri Synod Congregations in the South from 1954 to 1968

• Science and Religion: A Lutheran Scientist’s View

• Good Sermon, Pastor!

• Cordial Response to Larry Rinehart

• Your Imprint: The Cross

• Preach Christ Crucified

Holy Trinity 2024
Volume 33, Number 3
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Editor's Introduction
Jason Oakland

ARTICLES:

Forgiveness and Life Together
Aaron Moldenhauer

The Gift of a Nathan
Roger W. Uitti

Theodor Kliefoth on Individual Confession and Absolution and the Office of the Keys
Jason D. Lane 

Conscience and Conscientious Objection in Lutheran Theology
Richard J. Serina Jr

REVIEWS:

POSTILLA (1613). Teil 4. Predigten zu den Apostel- und Festtagen and POSTILLA (1613). Teil 5. Appendix: Predigten zu vermischten Bibeltexten
By Johann Gerhard. Review by Armin Wenz

Prussian Conservatism 1815–1856. Ecclesiastical Origins and Political Strategies
By Laura Claudia Achtelstetter. Review by James Ambrose Lee II

The Venerable and Adorable Eucharist: A Study of the Lutheran Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper in the 1500s
By Tom G. A. Hardt. Review by Jack D. Kilcrease

Towards a Politics of Communion: Catholic Social Teaching in Dark Times
By Anna Rowlands. Review by William G. Fredstrom

Organizing for Ministry and Mission: Options for Church Structure
By David J. Peter. Review by Ken Schurb

LOGIA FORUM:

• Has the Church of England “Given up the Ghost”?

• A Brief Defense of Miracles

• Did God Really Say, “Forgive”?

• The Influence and Use of the Church Fathers in Luther and His Successors

• God and the Law

• Forgiveness and Reconciliation

• Look Mom! No Notes!

• Rituals of Reconciliation

• Healing from Abuse

• Bring into Harmony

Eastertide 2024
Volume 33, Number 2
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Editor's Introduction
Wade Johnston

ARTICLES:

The Living and Active Word of God
Michael Albrecht

Concerning Proper Elements in the Lord’s Supper
Michael Wilke

History and Development of the Malagasy Lutheran Church and Its Care for Body and Soul
Robert H. Bennett 

Introducing Historical Criticism: Theodore S. Liefeld and the Bible as “Word of God”
David R. Liefeld

REVIEWS:

London Writings: The Spiritual & Theological Journal of Johann Georg Hamann
By Johann Georg Hamann. Translated by John W. Kleinig. Edited by Gene Edward Veith, Jr. Review by Aaron Moldenhauer

The End of Interpretation: Reclaiming the Priority of Ecclesial Exegesis
By R. R. Reno. Review by Kendall Davis

The Messianic Message: Predictions, Patterns, and the Presence of Jesus in the Old Testament
By R. Reed Lessing and Andrew E. Steinmann. Review by Mark Squire

A Commonwealth of Hope: Augustine’s Political Thought
By Michael Lamb. Review by Benjamin Parviz

The Politics of the Cross: A Christian Alternative to Partisanship
By Daniel K. Williams. Review by William G. Fredstrom

LOGIA FORUM:

• Robert Preus on Hermann Sasse

• Recognizing the Church

• Learning from Anger

• Theology, Queen of Sciences

• Theology as an Ongoing Conversation

• God is Beauty

• An Introduction to the Theological Thought of Xenophanes

• Getting to Know Each Other

• Hallelujah!

• Church and Parachurch

• Ordination Sermon

Epiphany 2024
Volume 33, Number 1
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Editor's Introduction
Dennis Marzolf

ARTICLES:

Desperate Measures: Streicher’s Attempts to Improve Congregational Song in Vienna
Jane Schatkin Hettrick

The Lutheran Hymnal (1941): The Synodical Conference’s Ultimate Answer to the Language Question
Elisabeth J. Urtel

The Week Ulrik Vilhelm Koren Fell Silent
Gracia Grindal

Luther, Bach, and Goliath
Roger W. Uitti

REVIEWS:

Lutheran Music Culture: Ideals and Practices.
Edited by M. Lundberg, M. Schildt, and J. Lundblad. Review by Brian Hamer

Introducing Christian Ethics: Core Convictions for Christians Today.
By David P. Gushee. Review by Gifford A. Grobien

Trinitarian Grace in Martin Luther’s The Bondage of the Will.
By Miikka Ruokanen. Review by Aaron Moldenhauer

God’s Word: A Guide to Holy Scripture.
By John Kleinig. Review by Jack D. Kilcrease

Christ, Church, and World: Bonhoeffer and Lutheran Ecclesiology After Christendom.
By Theodore Hopkins. Review by Richard J. Serina Jr.

LOGIA FORUM:

• Singing with Grace in Our Hearts

• Singing the Faith

• Doctrinally Pure Worship Elements

• Korby on the Priesthood of the Baptized

• A Lutheran Approach to Theology

• The Consequences of a Church that Wants to be Relevant

• The Centrality of Substitutionary Atonement

• Images of the Preacher

• The Purpose

• Education and the Three Estates

• Thought on Preaching the Gospel in the Strict Sense

Reformation 2023
Volume 32, Number 4
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Editor's Introduction
Carl Roth

ARTICLES:

Eyes, Ears, and All My Senses: Digital Ecclesiology, Worship, and the Body
A. Trevor Sutton

Livestreaming Ourselves to Death: Countering Technological Liturgies with Liturgies of Life
Joshua Pauling

Peace under the Cross: Peace in the Theology of Martin Luther
Aaron Moldenhauer

Busy Even in Exile: Matthias Flacius Illyricus, Church History, and Hermeneutics
Wade Johnston

Flacius’ Reception in the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
Michael Albrecht

REVIEWS:

The Diamond Quintet (5 volumes)
By F. W. Baue. Review by Gene Edward Veith

Justification by the Word
By Jack D. Kilcrease. Review by Aaron Moldenhauer

Christian Character Formation: Lutheran Studies of the Law, Anthropology, Worship, and Virtue
By Gifford A. Grobien. Review by Silas Hasselbrook

Christ, the Way: Augustine’s Theology of Wisdom
By Benjamin T. Quinn. Review by Brandon Koble

Music in Martin Luther’s Theology
By Yakub E. Kartawidjaja. Review by Brian Hamer

LOGIA FORUM:

• Septuagesima in Anglia Anno MCMIII

• Ecclesia Virtuala?

• Lutheran Colleges: A Unique Mission

• Embodied Faith

• Science and Religion: A Lutheran Approach

• Assembling Together

• Walther’s World and Nietzsche’s World

• The Ninth Installment of the Magdeburg Confession

• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Holy Trinity 2023
Volume 32, Number 3
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Editor's Introduction
Aaron Moldenhauer

ARTICLES:

Creation in Harmony: Confucius, Cicero, and Aesthetic Morality
James A. Kellerman

Luther and the Painters of Italy
Carl P. E. Springer

What Virgil Taught Martin Luther About Poetry and Music
E. Christian Kopff

Martin Luther and the Beauty of the Banquet
R. Alden Smith

The Reformation of Images in the Sixteenth Century: Karlstadt, Zwingli, Calvin, and the Puritans
Martin R. Noland

Between Two Testaments: Luther’s Shift in Attitude Toward the Book of Revelation
Andrew L. Christiansen

An Apocalypse of Human Hearts: Jesus’ Apocalyptic Ministry in Luke’s Gospel
Kendall A. Davis

REVIEWS:

Dogmatic Ecclesiology, volume 1: The Priestly Catholicity of the Church.
By Tom Greggs. Review by Jonathan Mumme

The Resurrection of Jesus: Apologetics, Polemics, History.
By Dale C. Allison Jr. Review by Kendall Davis

The Humility of the Eternal Son: Reformed Kenoticism and the Repair of Chalcedon.
By Bruce Lindley McCormack. Review by John W. Hoyum

Theology, History, and the Modern German University.
Edited by Kevin M. Vander Schel and Michael P. DeJonge. Review by James Ambrose Lee II

Luther’s Rome, Rome’s Luther: How the City Shaped the Reformer.
By Carl P. E. Springer. Review by Richard J. Serina Jr.

LOGIA FORUM:

• Under Authority

• The Gospel and the Power of Fate

• C. F. W. Walther on Vocation

• Reflections on the Fortieth Anniversary of Lutheran Worship (1982)

• Where Did “Woke” Come From?

• After Ecumenism

• Hamann: Classical and Romantic

• A Christian Response to Millennialism

• The Eighth Installment of the Magdeburg Confession

• Look to Christ

• “Oh My”

• Preaching Life Goals (Continued)

Eastertide 2023
Volume 32, Number 2
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Editor's Introduction
Jerry Gernander

ARTICLES:

The False Dichotomy of Formula Missae and Deutsche Messe
Daniel G. Baker

A Tale of Two “Modern” Liturgical Movements
Armand J. Boehme

Luther’s Early Sacramental Piety
Robert Kolb

Worship in Luther’s Early Thought: Four Dimensions, One Experience
Timothy Maschke

Our Position on Scripture
J. P. Koehler, Translated by Michael Holmen

REVIEWS:

Ministers of a New Medium: Broadcasting Theology in the Radio Ministries of Fulton J. Sheen and Walter A. Maier
By Kirk Farney. Review by Adam Koontz

Inward Baptism: The Theological Origins of Evangelicalism.
By Baird Tipson. Review by Richard J. Serina, Jr.

Missional Acts: Rhetorical Narrative in the Acts of the Apostles.
By Daniel McGinnis. Review by Ken Schurb

The Scroll of Isaiah: Its Unity, Structure, and Message.
By Seth Erlandsson. Review by Lars Borgström

The Nature of Human Persons: Metaphysics and Bioethics.
By Jason Eberl. Review by Silas Hasselbrook

LOGIA FORUM:

• The Liturgy Saves

• Liturgical Symbolism in Matthew

• Take Care of Each Other

• Worthy of Being Worshiped

• High Pastoral Formation and High Pastoral Care

• Did God Command the Destruction of the Canaanites?

• An Exhortation to Lutheran Brothers

• Presuppositions for Preaching Sermons with Life Goals (Part Two)

• Look to Christ

• The Seventh Installment of the Magdeburg Confession

Epiphany 2023
Volume 32, Number 1
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Editor's Introduction
Martin R. Noland

ARTICLES:

The Encomia of LOGIA: 1992–2022
Martin R. Noland

The Wonderful Blessing of Christian Unity: A Sermon on Psalm 133
Mark Braun

Confession and Pastoral Care
Philip Moldenhauer

Does the Lex Aeterna Debate Rest on a Mistake?
Noah Hahn

Jesus Christ and Moralistic Therapeutic Deism
Mark Mattes

The Church in the Melting Pot
Bo Giertz, translated by Nile Sandeen

Bo Giertz and an Expanding Bibliography of English Translations, 2022
Bror Erickson

REVIEWS:

Pastor Craft: Essays & Sermons
By John T. Pless. Review by John G. Nordling

Philologia Sacra und Auslegung der Heiligen Schrift. Studien zum Werk des lutherischen Barocktheologen Salomon Glassius (1593–1656)
By Armin Wenz. Review by Jason Soenksen

To Baptize or Not to Baptize: A Practical Guide for Clergy
By Sarah Hinlicky Wilson. Review by Joshua C. Miller

The Trinity and the Bible: On Theological Interpretation
By Scott R. Swain. Review by Kendall Davis

Augustine and Tradition: Influences, Contexts, and Legacy.
Edited by David G. Hunter and Jonathan P. Yates. Review by Brandon Koble

LOGIA FORUM:

• Dead Orthodox?

• A Fateful Consistency

• From Christ to Paul to Luther to Today

• Is She a Prophet?

• A Meditation on the Crucifix

• Appreciating God’s Creation through the Sciences

• God’s Grace Reframes the Problem of Evil

• The Sixth Installment of the Magdeburg Confession

Reformation 2022
Volume 31, Number 4
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Editor's Introduction
Jason Oakland

ARTICLES:

Spirit Christology Today: An Assessment of the Pentecostal Discussion and a Lutheran Proposal
Leopoldo A. Sánchez M.

The Forgotten History of Modern Pentecostalism
Nancy A. Almodovar

The Pastor as Healer
Christopher Maronde

Genesis 1 and the Vestments of the High Priest
Robert M. Hinckley

REVIEWS:

A History of Contemporary Praise and Worship: Understanding the Ideas That Reshaped the Protestant Church
By Lester Ruth and Lim Swee Hong. Review by Jacob Ehrhard

Introduction to Spirit Christology
By Leopoldo A. Sánchez M. Review by Brian A. Gauthier

Christ and Calamity: Grace and Gratitude in the Darkest Valley
By Harold Senkbeil. Review by W. Mart Thompson

A Theology for the Bildungsbürgertum: Albrecht Ritschl in Context
By Leif Svensson. Review by James Ambrose Lee II

The Canons of the Third Lateran Council of 1179: Their Origins and Reception
By Danica Summerlin. Review by Richard J. Serina, Jr.

Luther’s Augustinian Theology of the Cross: The Augustinianism of Martin Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation and the Origins of Modern Philosophy of Religion
By Marco Barone. Review by Caleb E. Keith

BRIEFLY NOTED:

Seminex in Print: A Comprehensive Bibliography of Published Material and Selected Archival
Resources for Historical Research
Compiled by David O. Berger with Daniel N. Harmelink

Office and Ordination in Luther and Melanchthon
By Helmut Lieberg. Translated by Matthew Carver

John Henry Newman and the Development of Doctrine: Encountering Change, Looking for Continuity
By Stephen Morgan

LOGIA FORUM:

• Ongoing Reception of the Holy Spirit

• Spirit-Filled

• Good and Evil: A Diabolical Dialectic Educational Enthusiasm

• The Fifth Installment of the Magdeburg Confession

• Christianity and “Grand Narratives”

• Bright Valley of Love for High Pastoral Care

• The Emptiness of Signs and Wonders

• Presuppositions for Preaching Sermons with Life Goals

• Nuanced and Non-Hysterical

• As Kingfishers Catch Fire

Holy Trinity 2022: Volume 31, Number 3

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Editor's Introduction
Wade Johnston

ARTICLES

The Significance of a Theology of Personalism for Contemporary Confessional Lutheranism
Paul Lehninger

Vocation and Human Dignity
Gene Edward Veith

A Lutheran View of Human Dignity
Michael Salemink

Gene Editing: A Violation of Human Dignity?
Kevin E. Voss

Marriage: The Church in Everyday Life
Bo Giertz

Eastertide 2022: Volume 31, Number 2

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Editor's Introduction
Gregory P. Schulz

ARTICLES

To What Extent the Books of the Philosophers Are Useful for Theology
Martin R. Noland

A Lutheran Critique of Autonomous Reason
Angus J. L. Menuge

Humanity’s Horizon: Transhumanism, Posthumanism, and the Person of Christ
Silas Hasselbrook

Death as Friend: The Consolation of Philosophy
Carl P. E. Springer

LEthics Education Is Vital
Kevin E. Voss

Epiphany 2022: Volume 31, Number 1

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Editor's Introduction
Jason Lane

ARTICLES

Eastern Religious Ways: Disputed Japanese Rites in Light of Lutheran Doctrine and Practice
Daniel N. Jastram

Understanding Asian American Neighbors to Share the Gospel of Christ
Tom Park

The Role of the Trinity in Interreligious Apologetics
John B. King Jr.

Old Hymns for Our Time: Songs of Pandemics in an Austrian Lutheran Hymnal of 1810
Jane Schatkin Hettrick

Three Perspectives on Lutheran Church Planting: Visions into Post-Constantinian Realities
Jari Kekäle, Translation by Tom and Riitta Toepher

Reformation 2021: Volume 30, Number 4

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Editor's Introduction
David Fleming

ARTICLES

Luther’s Counsel to a Depressed Young Man: His 1534 Letters to Prince Joachim of Anhalt
Stephen Pietsch

Compassion Fatigue: A Problem for Pastors
Jerome T. Gernander

Starting from Scratch: Nourishing Congregational Song
Phillip Magness

Pastoral Formation and Practice Today: An Exercise in Memory and Hope
Paul O. Wendland

Is It Time for Confessional Booths in the Lutheran Church?
James Douthwaite

Come and See
Mark Mattes

Holy Trinity 2021: Volume 30, Number 3

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In Memoriam: ROGER D. PITTELKO and JOHN A. MOLDSTAD

Editor's Introduction
Angus Menuge

ARTICLES

Martin Luther’s Swan Song: Luther’s Students, Melanchthon, and the Publication of the Lectures on Genesis, 1544–1554
John A. Maxfield

The Saint Who was Slain and the Murderer Who Received Mercy: Luther on Abel and Cain
Vincent Kam

Making the Case against Scientism
Angus Menuge

On the Need for a Thoughtful, Distinctively Lutheran Perspective on Creation
Michael Young

The Image of God and Marriage
Nathan Jastram

The Creator’s Delight
Charles P. Arand

The Smoking Firepot, a Flaming Torch, and Lutheran Theology
Armand J. Boehme

The Gospel as External Word and Personal Experience
Stephen Pietsch

Eastertide 2021: Volume 30, Number 2

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In Memoriam: Paul McCain

Editor's Introduction
Martin R. Noland

ARTICLES

“Not to Make an Operatic Impression”: Pathways to and from Sacred Music, 1723–2006
Brian J. Hamer

The Necessity of Liturgical Art in the Lutheran Church
Jonathan Mayer

Out Standing in Their Field: The Vocation of Lutheran Visual Artists
Paul Burmeister

Sacred Art: What It Can and Cannot Do
Edward Riojas

The Use of Cinematic Arts in Lutheran Confessional Education
Richard Wolff

Luther and the Cure of Souls
Stephen Pietsch

Damnamus: A Catechetical Necessity
John T. Pless

Epiphany 2021: Volume 30, Number 1

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Editor's Introduction
Jerry Gernander

ARTICLES

Romans 13:1–7 and the Two Kingdoms
Scott R. Murray

Religious Liberty and Conscience Rights: Two Kingdom Citizenship at Work for the Culture and the Church
Gregory Selz

Damnamus: Lessons from Church History
Charles Cortright

“Go into All the World and Make Disciples of All Nations”? On the Translation and Interpretation of Matthew 28:19–20
Wolfgang Reinbold

Neither Traditionalism nor Biblicism, but Bible and Confession
Leiv Aalen

Reformation 2020: Volume 29, Number 4

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Editor's Introduction
Aaron Moldenhauer

ARTICLES

The Lutheran Church in the Sixteenth Century
Robert Kolb

Lutheranism in the Seventeenth Century
Timothy Schmeling

Lutheranism in the Eighteenth Century
Eric Lund

Nineteenth-Century Lutheran Missions
Klaus Detlev Schulz

Lutheranism in the Twentieth Century
Mark Braun

Holy Trinity 2020: Volume 29, Number 3

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Editor's Introduction
Jason D. Lane

ARTICLES

From the Velvet Cushion to the Altar: Luther’s Theology of the Lord’s Supper and Its Relationship to His Christology
Brandon Koble

The Christology of Theodore of Mopsuestia: Some Reflections on the Modern Discussion
Vincent Kam

Treasure New and Old
Patrick James Bayens

Damnamus: The Biblical Foundations
Charles Cortright

REVIEWS

Communicatio Idiomatum: Reformation Christological Debates. Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology. By Richard Cross. Review by Aaron Moldenhauer

Christobiography: Memory, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels. By Craig Keener. Review by Adam Koontz

A Man Attested By God: The Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels. By J. R. Daniel Kirk. Review by James B. Prothro

Luther’s Small Catechism: A Manual for Discipleship. By John T. Pless. Review by Michael Berg

Luther’s Outlaw God, Vol 2: Hidden in the Cross. By Steven Paulson. Review by Jack D. Kilcrease

The Lord’s Service: A Ritual Analysis of the Order, Function, and Purpose of the Daily Divine Service in the Pentateuch. By Robert D. Macina. Review by Mark Birkholz

Concordia Ecclesiae: An Inquiry into Tension and Coherence in Philipp Melanchthon’s Theology and Efforts for Ecclesiastical Unity, Especially in 1527–1530. By Ragnar Anderson. Review by Brandon W. Koble

The German Awakening: Protestant Renewal after the Enlightenment 1815–1848. By Andrew Kloes. Review by James Ambrose Lee II

How Luther Became the Reformer. By Christine Helmer. Review by Richard J. Serina, Jr.

LOGIA FORUM

• The Person and Work of Jesus Christ

• Christ for You

• Jesus Is Just

• Get Your Mind Out of the Grave

• The NALC and Confessional Subscription

• Hamann’s Philo-Logical Christology

• Bergoglio Steps Back from the Brink!

• A Two-Way Bridge

• What Radical Lutherans Can Learn from Waltherian Lutherans

• John Brenz and the Extra Calvinisticum

• God’s Word: Luther versus Erasmus

• Bizarro World

Eastertide 2020: Volume 29, Number 2

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Editor's Introduction
Aaron Moldenhauer

ARTICLES

The Benedictus: A Liturgical Framework for Extraordinary Pastoral Care
Tyler C. Arnold

My Deathbed Experience of the Holy Spirit’s Work
Harold Senkbeil

Through Death to Life: Selecting Ecumenical Hymns for a Lutheran Funeral
Joel W. West

Herman Sasse and Edmund Schlink: Theologians, Colleagues, Friends
Herbert C. Mueller III

God’s Word, A Javelin
Matthew Richard

LOGIA FORUM

The Liturgy and Pastoral Care
A Funeral Just for You
Why Are There Still Takers for Tashlan?
In the Midst of Life We Are in Death
A Genealogy of the New Perspective on Paul
“Andy” Rectilinear or Typology? Both!
What’s Good About Shame!
Baptismal Death, Baptismal Resurrection
Non Nobis, Domine
† Wilhelm Walther Petersen † In Memoriam
Dr. Norman E. Nagel —Preacher

Epiphany 2020: Volume 29, Number 1

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Editor's Introduction
Wade Johnston

ARTICLES

The Natural Law and Christian Ethics
Gifford A. Grobien

Natural Law in the Lutheran Reformation
Ryan C. MacPherson

A Dim Spark of Knowledge
John S. Ehrett

Slouching toward Gomorrah: How the ELCA Lost Her Moral Compass in Pursuit of a Different Gospel
Thomas V. Aadland

“It Is Written on Their Hearts”
Tom Park

The God Who Gives Himself Completely and Thoroughly
Oswald Bayer; translated by Bror Erickson

REVIEWS

The Holy Trinity
By Carl Beckwith. Review by Jason Gehrke

The Reformation of Prophecy: Early Modern Interpretations of the Prophet and Old Testament Prophesy
By G. Sujin Pak. Review by Richard J. Serina, Jr.

Johann Gerhard (1582–1637) and the Conceptualization of Theologia at the Threshold of the “Age of Orthodoxy”: The Making of a Theologian
By Glenn K. Fluegge. Review by Joshua J. Hayes

Sculptor Spirit: Models of Sanctification from Spirit Christology
By Leopoldo A. Sánchez M. Review by Jonathan W. Rusnak

The Church Is One: Recapturing the Lost Unity Christ Intended for His Church on Earth
By Richard Bolland. Review by Aaron Moldenhauer

Martin Luther on Holy Baptism: Sermons to the People (1525–39)
Edited by Benjamin T.G. Mayes. Review by Richard J. Serina, Jr.

Clerical Households in Late Medieval Italy
By Roisin Cossar. Review by Richard J. Serina, Jr.

LOGIA FORUM

• Is God the Law?

• Divine Ordinances and Natural Rights

• The Natural Knowledge of God’s Law

• How Wide Is The Scope of Natural-Cum-Philosophical Theology?

• Luther and Natural Law: Some Thoughts

• Let’s Talk Some More about the Two Kingdoms

• On Distinguishing Between the Law and the Gospel in Study, Teaching and Use of Holy Scriptures

• Women’s Ordination: A Testimonial Warning

• Original Sin Pastoral Patience

• A Meeting of Mothers

• Natural Is Unnatural

Reformation 2019: Volume 28, Number 4

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In Memoriam
Dean Bell, 1947–2018

Editor's Introduction
Wade Johnston

ARTICLES

The Office of the Keys in the Late Reformation
Robert Mayes

The Reform of Marriage Law in Sixteenth-Century Germany
Carl D. Roth

The Office of the Ministry in Global Lutheranism
John T. Pless

Breaking Down the Chancel Rails: Devastating Love or Loveless Devastation?
Paul Lehninger

The Tenure of the Call: Exegetical, Doctrinal, Historical, and Practical Perspectives
Martin R. Noland

REVIEWS

Surviving the Storms: Memoirs of David P. Scaer
By David P. Scaer. Review by Richard J. Serina, Jr.

Justification
By Michael Horton. Review by Jack Kilcrease

Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Theology of a Preaching Life
By Michael Pasquarello III. Review by Theodore J. Hopkins

Law and Gospel in Action: Foundations, Ethics, Church
By Mark C. Mattes. Review by John W. Hoyum

It Takes a Church to Baptize: What the Bible Says about Infant Baptism
By Scot McKnight. Review by Jonathan Mumme

The Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Christian Theology
Edited by Daniel Whistler. Review by James Ambrose Lee II

LOGIA FORUM

• Awakened Senses

• A Tiny Cloud Heralding the Worst of Storms

• Justification or Atonement?

• The Truth About God and Neighbor

• Jordan Peterson: Sic et Non

• President’s Piece for Peace

• Tragedy Without Faith

• God’s Good Use of Philipp Nicolai

• Angelus Tenebrarum Detectus

• The Role of the Confessions Among Us

• The “Pro-Nomian” Teaching?

Holy Trinity 2019: Volume 28, Number 3

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In Memoriam
Wilhelm Walther Petersen, 1928–2018
Charles John Evanson, 1936–2018

Editor's Introduction
Aaron Moldenhauer

ARTICLES

The Human Body in the Theology of the Latin West, 300–1500
Charles L. Cortright

The Estate of Love in the Song of Songs
Brian T. German

Let’s Talk: The Two Kingdoms
Scott R. Murray

Discerning the Church with Bonhoeffer
Larry Rinehart

Christian Conscience in Pulpit and Pew
Paul Schlueter

REVIEWS

Review Essay: Luther for Evangelicals: A Reintroduction
By Paul R. Hinlicky. Review by Richard J. Serina, Jr.

Long Before Luther: Tracing the Heart of the Gospel from Christ to the Reformation
By Nathan Busenitz. Review by Korey D. Maas

Paul and the Person: Reframing Paul’s Anthropology
By Susan Grove Eastman. Review by James B. Prothro

On the Law of Nature: A Demonstrative Method
By Niels Hemmingsen. Review by Jack D. Kilcrease

A Redemptive Theology of Art: Restoring Godly Aesthetics to Doctrine and Culture
By David A. Covington. Review by Andrew D. Whaley

Ferdinand Christian Baur and the History of Early Christianity
Edited by Martin Bauspiess, Christof Landmesser, and David Lincicum. Review by James Ambrose Lee II

LOGIA FORUM

• In His Image

• By the Book

• Mythology, Metaphysics, and the Gospel

• Unplanned Pregnancies

• “In Body and Soul to Life Everlasting”

• Atonement in Reformation Hymnody

• All We Are Is Dust in the Wind?

• Sexual Salvation: A Critique

• Care of One’s Self

• Baptismal Self-Sacrificial Living

• Presuppositionalism and Holy Innocents

Eastertide 2019: Volume 28, Number 2

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Editor's Introduction
Jerry Gernander

ARTICLES

The “Metaphor” of Marriage in the Bible
Adam D. Hensley

The Twofold Clarity of Scripture in Luther’s Theology
Anthony J. Oliphant

The sensus mysticus in Lutheran Exegesis
Jason D. Lane

Lutheran Considerations on Community of Property from Acts to the South African Land Issue
Karl Böhmer

A Contemporary Evangelical Congregation Becomes Confessional Lutheran
Robb C. Ring

REVIEWS

Luther’s Epistle of Straw: The Voice of St. James in Reformation Preaching
By Jason Lane. Review by Richard J. Serina, Jr.

Cicero in Heaven: The Roman Rhetor and Luther’s Reformation
By Carl P. E. Springer. Review by Joshua J. Hayes

Luther’s Outlaw God, Vol. 1, Hiddenness, Evil, and Predestination
By Steven Paulson. Review by Jack D. Kilcrease

Changing World, Changeless Christ: The American Lutheran Publicity Bureau, 1914–2014
By Richard O. Johnson. Review by Adam Koontz

Martin Luther’s Legacy: Reforming Reformation Theology for the Twenty-first Century
By Mark Ellingsen. Review by John W. Hoyum

The Wittenberg Concord: Creating Space for Dialogue
By Gordon A. Jensen. Review by Jack D. Kilcrease

LOGIA FORUM

• The Hermeneutics of The Eye

• God’s Law: Good or Bad?

• Speaking with Authority

• Sir, We Would See Jesus!

• Two Pieces from J. G. Hamann

• Is the Law Eternal?

• Law and Gospel and Law

• The Scriptures as Judge

• A Song of Comfort

• Interpreted by God’s Word

• Theses on Reforming the Local Congregation

• Preaching that Silences Satan