Preach the Word – September/October 2016
Volume 20, Number 1 A new volume welcomes a new writer. Pastor Jonathan Scharf is husband to Janette, father to Andrew, Abi, Hannah, and Malachi, and pastor for the saints at Abiding Grace in Covington, ...
Four Branches September 2016
Editor’s intro: Welcome to the first edition of The Four Branches newsletter. Grow in Grace (The Institute for Pastoral Growth at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary) is pleased to send you this newsletter once a month to ...
Frederick the Wise
It seems strange that much of the life of one of the men who saved the Lutheran Reformation is, in Wellman’s words, “unseen.” We think we know so much about Frederick the Wise, the ...
Review: Luther and His World
I’ve come to appreciate small books. Perhaps I’ve grown lazy. Perhaps I use the excuse, “I don’t have time,” to dislike engaging in five or six hundred page examinations of this or that topic. Or, ...
Review: The Mother of the Reformation
Almost every Lutheran has heard what a remarkable person Katharine Luther was. Yet how much do we actually know about her life? Not as much as we would like, says her biographer Ernst Kroker. "With ...
Review: Luther’s Works: Prefaces I
Luther’s forty-five prefaces to the works of others, from 1520 to 1532, each with its own scholarly introduction, touch on autobiography, history, exegesis, polemics, and pastoral theology. “Most significantly, the prefaces convey a clear sense ...
Review: The Fabricated Luther: Refuting Nazi Connections and Other Modern Myths, 2nd Edition
Correction. In the review of The Fabricated Luther (posted on October 28, 2013), the Shepherd's Study incorrectly reported that the work is a translation of an original German monograph. In actuality the work was based on the author's ...
Review: Faith and Act
Faith and Act: The Survival of Medieval Ceremonies in the Lutheran Reformation, by Ernst Walter Zeeden. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2012. 147 pages. Prof. Dr. Ernst Walter Zeeden was a German historian of some ...
Review: The Real Luther
The Real Luther: A Friar at Erfurt & Wittenberg: Exploring Luther’s Life with Melanchthon as Guide, by Franz Posset. St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House, 2011. 195 pages. Dr. Franz Posset is an independent researcher ...
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