A Documentary History of Lutheranism, Volumes 1 and 2: Volume 1: From the Reformation to Pietism Volume 2: From the Enlightenment to the Present

by Eric Lund (Editor), Mark A. Granquist (Editor)

Overview

This unique collection of excerpts from Lutheran historical documents--many translated here for the first time--presents readers with a full picture of how the Lutheran movement developed in its thought and practice. Covering not only theology but also church life, popular piety, and influential historical events, the primary documents include theological treatises, confessional statements, liturgical texts, devotional writings, hymns, letters and diaries, satirical polemics, political documents, woodcuts, and pamphlet literature.

This first volume covers the chronological period from Luther‘s first calls for reform to the development of Lutheran Orthodoxy and Pietism during the seventeenth century. The judiciously selected and carefully translated texts as well as the contextualizing information provided in each chapter‘s introductory essay acquaint readers with the turbulence and fervor of this revolutionary Christian movement, its struggles for survival and consolidation, and its further evolution up to the dawn of the Enlightenment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506416656
Publisher:	Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date:	12/01/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	824
File size:	34 MB
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About the Author

Mark Granquist is associate professor of church history at Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of Lutherans in America: A New History (Fortress Press, 2015) and Scandinavian Pietists: Spiritual Writings from 19th-Century Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland (2015), and coauthor, with Maria Erling, of The Augustana Story: Shaping Lutheran Identity in North America (Fortress Press, 2008).

Table of Contents

PREFACE
ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES
A CHRONOLOGY OF LUTHERAN HISTORY SINCE THE ENLIGHTENMENT
CHAPTER ONE: THE IMPACT OF ENLIGHTENMENT RATIONALISM
CHAPTER TWO: CHURCH LIFE IN GERMANY IN THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES
CHAPTER THREE: LUTHERAN BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP AND THE QUEST OF THE HISTORICAL JESUs
CHAPTER FOUR: THE REVITALIZATION OF LUTHERANISM IN 19TH CENTURY GERMANY
CHAPTER FIVE: LUTHERANS IN AMERICA (1619–1865)
CHAPTER SIX: NINETEENTH CENTURY LIBERAL LUTHERANISM
CHAPTER SEVEN: CHURCH STRUGGLES IN EUROPE DURING THE WARS OF THE
TWENTIETH CENTURY
CHAPTER EIGHT: LUTHERAN THEOLOGY IN TWENTIETH CENTURY EUROPE
CHAPTER NINE: LUTHERANS IN AMERICA (1865–2016)

CHAPTER TEN: LUTHERANS IN SCANDINAVIA (1750 TO PRESENT)

CHAPTER ELEVEN: LUTHERANISM AS A WORLDWIDE MOVEMENT

CHAPTER TWELVE: LUTHERANS, ECUMENISM AND INTER-RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE

SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INDEX