{"title":"The Gates of Hell: An Untold Story of Faith and Perseverance in the Early Soviet Union by Matthew Heise (review)","authors":"S. H. Wilson","doi":"10.1353/lut.2023.a905044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lut.2023.a905044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81901,"journal":{"name":"Lutheran quarterly (Gettysburg, Pa. : 1949)","volume":"37 1","pages":"356 - 356"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43310534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wittenberg Uses of Law and Gospel","authors":"R. Kolb","doi":"10.1353/lut.2023.a905030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lut.2023.a905030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Melanchthon attempted to preserve the proper preaching of repentance and to teach proper Christian living through the law of God by designating three uses of the law in the Christian life. He did so to counter the form of antinomianism advanced by Johann Agricola. The Wittenberg theologians distinguished Christian preachers’ uses of the law from its functioning in their hearers and the impact it makes on the actions of the hearers. Luther did not use Melanchthon’s terminology but recognized that the law as God’s design for humanity functions as societal discipline, call to repentance, and instruction in godly living. For saints who are in combat with their own sinfulness each day, the law’s good counsel easily turns to accusation as well.","PeriodicalId":81901,"journal":{"name":"Lutheran quarterly (Gettysburg, Pa. : 1949)","volume":"37 1","pages":"249 - 267"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43668497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Freedom from the Law and the Experimental “Third Use”","authors":"Steven D. Paulson","doi":"10.1353/lut.2023.a905031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lut.2023.a905031","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article addresses the Lutheran discussion of the “third use” of the law. From the doctrine’s origin in Philip Melanchthon’s Annotations on Romans and Corinthians (1522) to the attempted application in the Church Visitations, the attempt was made to apply the law to the baptized as a moral guide without the law’s trademark accusation.The shoehorn for prying a third use into our lives comes from the misguided attempt of preachers to “read their audiences” and aid in a congregation’s moral improvement. The fear of absolution leads to the notion of “dead faith” that must be dealt with beyond the gospel.Though Luther did not imagine such a thing, Melanchthon’s students continued the discussion into the Formula of Concord VI.This article’s thesis opposes attempts to add law to the Gospel: freedom, as Paul astutely argues, is not a passage to something else. It is its own goal and purpose: “For freedom! Christ has set you free” (Galatians 5:1). Freedom frees from the law—not into it. The imaginary third use of law opposes the chief doctrine of justification and is best put to rest.","PeriodicalId":81901,"journal":{"name":"Lutheran quarterly (Gettysburg, Pa. : 1949)","volume":"37 1","pages":"268 - 289"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41478856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teaching Reformation: Essays in Honor of Timothy J. Wengert ed. by Luka Ilić and Martin J. Lohrmann (review)","authors":"Vincent Evener","doi":"10.1353/lut.2023.a905034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lut.2023.a905034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81901,"journal":{"name":"Lutheran quarterly (Gettysburg, Pa. : 1949)","volume":"37 1","pages":"335 - 337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47423494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}