{"title":"Martin Luther and the Flow of Faith","authors":"Mark D. Tranvik","doi":"10.1353/lut.2023.0060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lut.2023.0060","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Martin Luther's radical and revolutionary understanding of God's love in Christ entails a new kind of theological language. For Luther, divine love is dynamic, powerful, and even dangerous. He therefore needs a language to express the disruptive and surprising character of God's active presence in human life. Sometimes overlooked is his use of a family of words linked together by the flow of water. This essay will explore Luther's use of word-pictures connected with the images of \"fountain\" and \"flow\" or \"overflowing.\" It argues that Luther finds these metaphors particularly congenial to his new understanding of justification by faith and the respective roles played by God and humanity. It concludes with some systematic reflections on how the use of these \"watery\" words can help convey the dynamism of grace to listeners today.","PeriodicalId":81901,"journal":{"name":"Lutheran quarterly (Gettysburg, Pa. : 1949)","volume":"37 1","pages":"125 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66306359","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}
Volker Leppin, A. Burnett, J. R. Eggert, Z. Csepregi, R. Kolb, M. Becker, Suzanne Hequet, Steven Bielenberg, Richard Carter, Paul W. Westermeyer, R. Benne, M. Mattes, S. McArver, H. Anderson, Ronald K. Rittgers, M. J. Haemig, A. Johnson, Jonathan Wilson, Andrew Ronnevik, H. Barker
{"title":"About This Issue","authors":"Volker Leppin, A. Burnett, J. R. Eggert, Z. Csepregi, R. Kolb, M. Becker, Suzanne Hequet, Steven Bielenberg, Richard Carter, Paul W. Westermeyer, R. Benne, M. Mattes, S. McArver, H. Anderson, Ronald K. Rittgers, M. J. Haemig, A. Johnson, Jonathan Wilson, Andrew Ronnevik, H. Barker","doi":"10.1353/lut.2023.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lut.2023.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the Late Middle Ages, an inward piety oriented toward the suffering of Christ, had become a central theme of spiritual and theological reflection. Famously, Johann Staupitz transmitted it to his spiritual advisee Martin Luther. Using the mystical language of bridal encounter, he depicted Christ as an effective example for his disciples. Luther took part in this Christocentric piety and theology, as can already be observed in his early lectures. Framed by the humanist Lefèvre's hermeneutics, the Wittenberg monk claimed, that the entire scripture was to be understood through the perspective of Christ. Already in his interpretation of Romans, Luther began to develop this Christocentrism in contrast to human works. More and more, he spread his ideas through the vernacular, starting with The Seven Penitential Psalms of 1517. A highlight of his passion devotion can be found in his Sermon on the Contemplation of Christ's Holy Passion. While these writings still resonate with medieval spirituality, we can track an increasing juxtaposition of Christ over against work and merit related forms of medieval piety. A famous example for this is the confrontation in the Heidelberg Disputation between the theologus gloriae and the theologus crucis which points directly to the passion-Christology background. This formation of solus Christus as the clarion call for Luther's fight against the medieval church was reached a good year earlier than that of sola scriptura, which only emerged in its full form in the Leipzig Disputation in 1519. Here, hermeneutics, spirituality and ecclesiology merged to a basis for a full-fledged reformational theology, which still shows its roots in the Middle Ages.","PeriodicalId":81901,"journal":{"name":"Lutheran quarterly (Gettysburg, Pa. : 1949)","volume":"37 1","pages":"1 - 101 - 101 - 103 - 103 - 105 - 105 - 107 - 107 - 108 - 108 - 110 - 110 - 112 - 112 - 114 - 114 -"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48805263","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":"Colonial Records of the Swedish Churches in Pennsylvania, Volume 7-A and 7-B: The Göransson & Hultgren Years, 1768–1776 ed. by Kenneth S. Peterson (review)","authors":"Jonathan Wilson","doi":"10.1353/lut.2023.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lut.2023.0021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81901,"journal":{"name":"Lutheran quarterly (Gettysburg, Pa. : 1949)","volume":"37 1","pages":"101 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47243355","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":"Teach Us to Pray: The Lord's Prayer, Catechesis, and Ritual Reform in the Sixteenth Century by Katharine Mahon (review)","authors":"A. Johnson","doi":"10.1353/lut.2023.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lut.2023.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81901,"journal":{"name":"Lutheran quarterly (Gettysburg, Pa. : 1949)","volume":"37 1","pages":"97 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46106316","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":"The Origin and Diffusion of the Common Table Prayer \"Come, Lord Jesus\"","authors":"J. R. Eggert","doi":"10.1353/lut.2023.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lut.2023.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Common Table Prayer \"Komm, Herr Jesu\" or \"Come, Lord Jesus\" is traditionally prayed before meals in many Lutheran and other Christian households. Many consider it to have first been published in London in 1753 and written by Nicolaus von Zinzendorf, the German religious reformer, missionary, and bishop of the Moravian Church. This paper shows, however, that this is a misattribution: the prayer had appeared in print at least twenty times before 1753. Its earliest known publication was in 1698, before Zinzendorf's birth, in a schoolbook written in Leipzig by Johann Conrad Quensen. He was likely the author of the prayer. The prayer was apparently based on a 1669 aria by Johann Rudolph Ahle whose text had recently been republished in the Wagner Gesangbuch of 1697. But unlike the aria, the prayer was meant to be spoken and to be taught to children. The possible precursors to Ahle's aria show it may have been inspired by the Emmaus or Cana stories. The diffusion of the prayer, initially through schools and then more broadly in society, was rapid and complete; by the mid eighteenth century it was culturally dominant throughout German Protestant lands and was becoming a truly international and ecumenical table prayer.","PeriodicalId":81901,"journal":{"name":"Lutheran quarterly (Gettysburg, Pa. : 1949)","volume":"37 1","pages":"49 - 72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47352162","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":"\"Solus Christus\" from Late Medieval Passion Piety to Reformation Faith","authors":"Volker Leppin","doi":"10.1353/lut.2023.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lut.2023.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the Late Middle Ages, an inward piety oriented toward the suffering of Christ, had become a central theme of spiritual and theological reflection. Famously, Johann Staupitz transmitted it to his spiritual advisee Martin Luther. Using the mystical language of bridal encounter, he depicted Christ as an effective example for his disciples. Luther took part in this Christocentric piety and theology, as can already be observed in his early lectures. Framed by the humanist Lefèvre's hermeneutics, the Wittenberg monk claimed, that the entire scripture was to be understood through the perspective of Christ. Already in his interpretation of Romans, Luther began to develop this Christocentrism in contrast to human works. More and more, he spread his ideas through the vernacular, starting with The Seven Penitential Psalms of 1517. A highlight of his passion devotion can be found in his Sermon on the Contemplation of Christ's Holy Passion. While these writings still resonate with medieval spirituality, we can track an increasing juxtaposition of Christ over against work and merit related forms of medieval piety. A famous example for this is the confrontation in the Heidelberg Disputation between the theologus gloriae and the theologus crucis which points directly to the passion-Christology background. This formation of solus Christus as the clarion call for Luther's fight against the medieval church was reached a good year earlier than that of sola scriptura, which only emerged in its full form in the Leipzig Disputation in 1519. Here, hermeneutics, spirituality and ecclesiology merged to a basis for a full-fledged reformational theology, which still shows its roots in the Middle Ages.","PeriodicalId":81901,"journal":{"name":"Lutheran quarterly (Gettysburg, Pa. : 1949)","volume":"37 1","pages":"1 - 26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44661312","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}