A Reading List for Getting To Know Lutheransim

The Thinking Fellows give readers a short list of books they find essential for understanding Lutheranism.

The Thinking Fellows give readers a short list of books they find essential for understanding Lutheranism. The list below includes books that contextualize the story and doctrinal formation of the Reformation. This Library should help both people who are unfamiliar with Lutheranism and those familiar with Lutheran doctrine but would like a better historical picture of who the Lutherans are.

Berg, Michael. Vocation: The Setting for Human Flourishing

Cary, Phillip. The Meaning of Protestant Theology: Luther, Augustine, and the Gospel That Gives Us Christ.

Elert, Werner. The Structure of Lutheranism

Giertz, B. The hammer of God

Green, Lowell C. How Melanchthon Helped Luther Discover the Gospel: The Doctrine of Justification in the Reformation

Kolb, Robert. The Christian Faith: A Lutheran Exposition

Kolb, Robert, and Charles P. Arand. The Genius of Luther's Theology: A Wittenberg Way of Thinking for the Contemporary Church

Montgomery, J. W., and G. E. Veith. Where Christ is Present: A theology for All Seasons on the 500th anniversary of the Reformation

Nestingen, James, and Gerhard O. Forde. Free to Be

Paulson, Steven D. Luther for Armchair Theologians

Trueman, Carl R. Luther on the Christian Life: Cross and Freedom

Various, and Martin Luther. Day by Day with Martin Luther

Veith, Jr. Gene E. God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life

Wisløff, Carl F. I Know in Whom I Believe: Studies in Bible Doctrine

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Scott Keith

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Scott Keith is the Executive Director of 1517. He is a co-host of The Thinking Fellows Podcast and a contributor to 1517 and Christ Hold Fast. He is also the author of...

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Scott Keith

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Scott Keith is the Executive Director of 1517. He is a co-host of The Thinking Fellows Podcast and a contributor to 1517 and Christ Hold Fast. He is also the author of "Being Dad: Father as a Picture of God’s Grace." He earned his doctorate from...

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Caleb Keith

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Caleb Keith is a Summa Cum Laude, and Honors Scholar graduate of Concordia University Irvine, and holds an MA in systematic and philosophical theology from the...

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Caleb Keith

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Caleb Keith is a Summa Cum Laude, and Honors Scholar graduate of Concordia University Irvine, and holds an MA in systematic and philosophical theology from the University of Nottingham. In 2018, he published a translation of Luther's Heidelberg...

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Adam Francisco

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Adam is Director of Academics and Scholar in Residence at 1517. He earned his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2006 and served as Professor of History, Dean, and...

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Adam Francisco

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Adam is Director of Academics and Scholar in Residence at 1517. He earned his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2006 and served as Professor of History, Dean, and Assistant Provost in the Concordia University System for nearly two decades.

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Bruce Hillman

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Bruce Hillman is a Scholar in Residence at 1517. He Holds a BA in History and Political Science from Quinnipiac University, an MDiv. from the Lutheran Brethren Seminary,...

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Bruce Hillman is a Scholar in Residence at 1517. He Holds a BA in History and Political Science from Quinnipiac University, an MDiv. from the Lutheran Brethren Seminary, and an STM in Patristics from Drew University; He is the former Lead Pastor at...

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