Luther and His Spiritual Legacy (Published
by Michael Glazier, Wilmington, Del., 1983)
Chapters in PDF format:
Title, Contents, Foreword
Ch. 1 - Images of Luther
Ch. 2 - The Eve of the Reformation
Ch. 3 - Luther’s Life and
Career to 1512
Ch. 4 - Luther’s Theology
of the Cross, 1513-1518
Ch. 5 - Luther’s Reformation
Decisions, 1518-25
Ch. 6 - Luther’s Later Life
and Works, 1526-46
Ch. 7 - Luther’s Mature Spiritual
Teaching
General Bibliography and Index
Living and Praying
as simul iustus et peccator. A Chapter in
Luther’s Spiritual Teaching (29 pages, 1989)
Martin Luther:
the Heart Clinging to the Word (16 pages, 1990)
Applied Theology
at the Deathbed: Luther and the Late-Medieval Tradition
of the Ars moriendi (21 pages, 1998)
God and His
Grace according to Luther (25 pages, 2001)
Recent Reviews of Books on Luther:
– Review of
Thesaurus Lutheri, ed. Tuomo Mannermaa et al. (1987).
Essays on Luther from the new perspectives developed in
Finland in the 1980s.
– Review of
Dokumente zur Causa Lutheri (1517-1521). Part 1. eds.
Peter Fabisch and Erwin Iserloh (1988). Presenting original
documentation on how Luther’s protest of 1517 on
indulgences escalated to a canonical “case”
against him for deviant teaching.
– Review
of Ad fontes Lutheri. Toward the Recovery of the Real
Luther. Festschrift Kenneth Hagen. Eds. T. Maschke,
F. Posset, and J. Skocir (2001). Essays on Luther by colleagues
and disciples of K. Hagen, long-time professor at Marquette
University.
– Review
of Theodore Dieter, Der junge Luther und Aristoteles (2001). On a painstaking investigation of what was at
stake in Luther’s citations of Aristotle and arguments
against Aristotelian positions.
– Review
of Wolfgang Simon, Die Messopfertheologie Martin Luthers.
Voraussetzungen, Genese, Gestalt und Rezeption (2003).
On a monograph treating Luther’s theological handling
of the Eucharist as sacrifice, which looks as well to
how other Reformers received Luther’s creative account.
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Other studies on Luther by J. Wicks have
come out in the volume, Luther’s Reform. Studies
on Conversion and the Church (Mainz: Ph. von Zabern, 1992):
Approaching Luther’s Reform
Justification and Faith in Luther’s Theology
Luther’s Treatise on Indulgences, 1517
Fides sacramenti – Fides specialis: Luther’s
Development in 1518
Roman Reactions to Luther: the First Year, 1518
Luther and Lived Religiosity
Holy Spirit – Church – Sanctification: Insights
from Luther’s Instruction on the Faith
A Recent Review-Article is:
“Facts and Fears In and Around Martin Luther,”
in Moreana (Angers, France) 37 (2000), 5-32. On Richard
Marius, Martin Luther: The Christian Between God and Death
(1999). Summarized in Luther Digest 10 (2002), 229-233.