The Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther

3-Volume Set

Editor in Chief: Derek R. Nelson and Paul R. Hinlicky

Articles include discussions of historiography, provide a greater depth of coverage than other works, and focus on a forward-looking intellectual agenda.
The scholars who contributed are the best of the best in the field and were drawn from 12 different countries. 61 (nearly half) of the articles were written by authors outside of the U.S.; 49 by authors outside of both the U.S. and U.K.
All of the articles appear online as part of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther

3-Volume Set

Editor in Chief: Derek R. Nelson and Paul R. Hinlicky

Description

This encyclopedia is a collaboration of the leading scholars in the field of Reformation research and the thought, life, and legacy of influence - for good and for ill - of Martin Luther. In 2017 the world marks 500 years since the beginning of the public work of Luther, whose protest against corrupt practices and the way theology was taught captured Europe's attention from 1517 onward. Comprising 125 extensive articles in three volumes, the Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther examines:

- the contexts that shaped his social and intellectual world, such as previous theological and institutional developments
- the genres in which he worked, including some he essentially created
- the theological and ethical writings that make up the lion's share of his massive intellectual output
- the complicated and contested history of his reception across the globe and across a span of disciplines

This indispensable work seeks both to answer perennial questions as well as to raise new ones. Intentionally forward-looking in approach, the ORE of Martin Luther provides a reliable survey to such issues as, for instance, how did Luther understand God? What did he mean by his notion of "vocation?" How did he make use of, but also transform, medieval thought patterns and traditions? How did Luther and the Reformation re-shape Europe and launch modernity? What were his thoughts about Islam and Judaism, and how did the history of the effects of those writings unfold?

Scholars from a variety of disciplines - economic history, systematic theology, gender and cultural studies, philosophy, and many more - propose an agenda for examining future research questions prompted by the harvest of decades of intense historical scrutiny and theological inquiry.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther

3-Volume Set

Editor in Chief: Derek R. Nelson and Paul R. Hinlicky

Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism
Arts: Music, Poetry, and Hymns
Arts: Visual Culture
Atonement and Reconciliation
Augustine and Augustinianism
Authority

Baptism
Bible Translation and the German Language
Biblical Commentary: New Testament
Biblical Commentary: Old Testament
Body, Desire, and Sexuality
Bonhoeffer, Luther, and Political Theologies

Calvin and Luther
Certainty
Charity and Social Ethics
Christian Hebraism
Christological Sources in the Church Fathers
Confessional Age, Luther in the
Cosmology
Cross, The, and the Theologia Crucis

Death and Dying
Dialectical Theology
Doctrine
Doctrine of Creation

Earlier Reformers
Economic Life
Ecumenical Movement
Emotions and Experience
Erasmus and Luther
Eschatology

Faith
Freedom and the Trinity

German Catholic Dioceses on the Eve of the Reformation
German Enlightenment
Gift
God
Grace

History and Its Meaning
Holy Spirit, The
Hope and the Hope for Eternal Life
Human Being
Humanism and Skepticism

Incarnation
Islam and the Ottoman Turks

Jesus Christ
Jews and Judaism
Justification

Law
Law and Gospel
Legal Reforms and Civil Law
Life, 1483-1516
Life, 1517-1525
Life, 1526-1546
Lord's Prayer
Lord's Supper
Love
Luther in Britain and Anglican Theology
Luther in Central Europe
Luther in Denmark
Luther in Finland and the Baltics
Luther in German Historiography
Luther in Latin America
Luther in Marx
Luther in North America
Luther in Norway
Luther in Sweden
Luther Renaissance
Luther, Lutheranism and Post-Christianity
Lutheran Orthodoxy
Lutheranism in the Holy Roman Empire
Luther's Influence on Rise of Natural Sciences

Magic and the Occult
Marriage and the Family
Melanchthon, Luther, and Their Wittenberg Colleagues
Ministry and the Church
Mission and Christianization
Modern European Philosophy
Modern New Testament Scholarship
Modernity, Capitalism, and Liberalism
Monasticism in the Later Middle Ages
Mysticism

Natural Theology and Natural Law
Nineteenth-Century Theology, Luther in
Nominalism and the Via Moderna

Ontology
Opponents, Protestant (Schwärmerei)
Opponents, Roman Catholic
Orthodox Christians and the Evangelical Lutheran Tradition

Penance, Confession, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation
Pentacostalism, Global
Pietism
Polemicist, Luther as
Political Life, Luther on
Portrayals of Luther in Print, Stage, and Film
Prayer
Preaching
Printing, Propaganda, and Public Opinion
Promise

Reason and Philosophy
Reformatory Discovery
Relational Thinking
Religious Violence and Martyrdom
Rhetoric
Roman Catholic German-Language Theologies

Sacramental Theology
Saxon Electors, The, and Luther
Scholasticisms
Sin
Staupitz and Luther
Systematic Theology

Theological Aesthetics
Theological Language
Trinity, the
Twofold Rule of God

Vocation

Word of God
Works: An Overview of Writings
Works: Catechisms
Works: Disputations
Works: Pastoral Writings
Works: Sermons and Postils
Works: Table Talk, Letters, and Prefaces
Works: Treatises and Essays
World Christianities
Worship Reform

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther

3-Volume Set

Editor in Chief: Derek R. Nelson and Paul R. Hinlicky

Author Information

Derek R. Nelson is Professor of Religion and Stephen S. Bowen Professor of Liberal Arts at Wabash College. He is the co-author of Resilient Reformer: The Life and Thought of Martin Luther (Fortress, 2015) and the author or editor of eight other books in the history of theology.

Paul R. Hinlicky is Tise Professor of Lutheran Studies at Roanoke College. He is the author of many books in systematic and historical theology, including Beloved Community: Critical Dogmatics after Christendom (Eerdmans, 2015).

Contributors:

Knut Alfsvåg, VID Specialized University

Phillip Anderas, Independent Scholar

Charles P. Arand, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Heinrich Assel, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald

Carl Axel Aurelius, Københavns Universitet

David Bagchi, University of Hull

L'ubomír Batka, Comenius-Universität in Bratislava

Carl Beckwith, Samford University

Robert Benne, Roanoke College

Albrecht Beutel, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

Dennis Bielfeldt, Institute of Lutheran Theology

Christopher Boyd Brown, Boston University

Stephen G. Burnett, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Mark D. Chapman, University of Oxford

Chris Croghan, Sioux Falls Seminary

Michael P. DeJonge, University of South Florida

Theodor Dieter, Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg (France)

Kathryn A. Edwards, University of South Carolina

Maria Erling, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg

Adam S. Francisco, Concordia University Irvine

John M. Frymire, University of Missouri

Bruce Gordon, Yale University

Mark A. Granquist, Luther Seminary

Niels Henrik Gregersen, Københavns Universitet

Hans-Peter Grosshans, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

Phillip N. Haberkern, Boston University

Mary Jane Haemig, Luther Seminary

Daphne Hampson, University of Oxford

Jan-Olav Henriksen, Norwegian School of Theology

Erik H. Herrmann, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Paul R. Hinlicky, Roanoke College

Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth, Mount Mary University

Bo Kristian Holm, Universität Aarhus

Gordon A. Jensen, Lutheran Theological Seminary Saskatoon

Ninna Jørgensen, Københavns Universitet

Anne Käfer, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

Susan C. Karant-Nunn, University of Arizona

Ilmari Karimies, Universität Helsinki

Pekka Kärkkäinen, Universität Helsinki

Thomas Kaufmann, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Ralph Keen, University of Illinois at Chicago

Robert Kolb, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Dietrich Korsch, Philipps-Universität Marburg

Dirk G. Lange, Luther Seminary

Duane H. Larson, Independent Scholar

Volker Leppin, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

David Lincicum, University of Notre Dame

Carter Lindberg, Boston University

Anja Lobenstein-Reichmann, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen

Martin J. Lohrmann, Wartburg Theological Seminary

David Luy, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Lois Malcolm, Luther Seminary

Piotr J. Malysz, Samford University

Mark Mattes, Grand View University

Mickey L. Mattox, Marquette University

John A. Maxfield, Concordia University of Edmonton

Alicia Mayer, National Autonomous University of Mexico

Alister E. McGrath, University of Oxford

Charlotte Methuen, University of Glasgow

Matthias Mikoteit, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

R. David Nelson, Baker Academic and Brazos Press

Derek R. Nelson, Wabash College

Friederike Nüssel, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Christopher Ocker, San Francisco Theological Seminary

Steve Paulson, Luther Seminary

Cheryl M. Peterson, Trinity Lutheran Seminary

Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, Western Kentucky University

Simon D. Podmore, Liverpool Hope University

Franz Posset, Independent Scholar

Zachary Purvis, University of Edinburgh

Tarald Rasmussen, Universität Oslo

Antti Raunio, University of Eastern Finland

Joachim Ringleben, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Ronald K. Rittgers, Valparaiso University

A.G. Roeber, Pennsylvania State University

Sibylle Rolf, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Philipp Robinson Rössner, University of Manchester

William R. Russell, Augustana Lutheran Church

Eric Leland Saak, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Risto Saarinen, Universität Helsinki

Robert C. Saler, Christian Theological Seminary

Wolf-Friedrich Schäufele, Philipps-Universität Marburg

Johannes Schilling, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

Susan E. Schreiner, University of Chicago

Johannes Schwanke, Staatsunabhängige Theologische Hochschule Basel

Christoph Schwöbel, Universität Tübingen

Jeffrey G. Silcock, Australian Lutheran College/University of Divinity

Andreas Stegmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Kirsi Stjerna, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary of California Lutheran University

Philipp Stoellger, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

John R. Stumme, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Curtis L. Thompson, Thiel College

Wolfgang Thönissen, Johann-Adam-Möhler-Institut

Samuel Torvend, Pacific Lutheran University

Mark D. Tranvik, Augsburg College

Olli-Pekka Vainio, Universität Helsinki

Michal Valco, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra

Anna Vind, Københavns Universitet

Gregory Walter, St. Olaf College

Dorothea Wendebourg, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Timothy J. Wengert, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia

Elke Anna Werner, Freie Universität Berlin

Vítor Westhelle, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago

Joachim Whaley, University of Cambridge

David M. Whitford, Baylor University

Jared Wicks, Pontifical College Josephinum

Hans Wiersma, Augsburg College

Merry Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Sarah Hinlicky Wilson, Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg (France)

John Witte Jr., Emory University

Jens Wolff, University of Rostock

William J. Wright, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Johannes Zachhuber, University of Oxford

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther

3-Volume Set

Editor in Chief: Derek R. Nelson and Paul R. Hinlicky

Reviews and Awards

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2017

"Derek Nelson and Paul Hinlicky have assembled a diverse and able group of scholars to produce the standard reference work on the life and thought of Martin Luther. Whether someone reads one sarticle at a time, or reads the cluster of articles pertaining to one of the four topical categories, this work will surely incite them to ask new, critical questions of Luther and how his thought has been historically received [T]his encyclopedia should be found in colleges, graduate schools, and seminaries where Luther is studied."--Bradley M. Penner, Reading Religion

Chosen as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2017 by Choice