 | Why I Am a Lutheran: Jesus at the Center by Daniel Preus
Buy new: $14.69 / Used from: $8.78 The forgiven believe 'Jesus has done everything necessary to save us.' Promoting free will instead puts focus on the one 'who through the exercise of free will contributes to his or her salvation.'
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 | Dying to Live: The Power of Forgiveness by Harold L. Senkbeil
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $5.50 By offering the forgiveness obtained by the incarnation and work of Christ, the good news and sacraments supernaturally enable everything done by the believer, even in his or her vocation, to be lived daily in his name (Col. 3:17), that is, liturgically.
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 | The Fire And The Staff: Lutheran Theology In Practice by Klemet I. Preus
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $20.86 Another great place to start. Why the gospel must be kept completely free from pluralism, Arminianism, and Calvinism. Includes questions for study groups.
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 | Handling The Word Of Truth: Law And Gospel In The Church Today by John T. Pless
Buy new: $10.39 / Used from: $3.46 A short introduction to Walther's Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel (described below). Includes questions for study groups.
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| Christian Dogmatics Volume Set by Francis Pieper
Buy new: $124.99 / Used from: $157.62 Persuasive overview of Lutheran theology, including excellent material on the perspicuity of Scripture. Used in LCMS seminaries. Index and individual volumes available from the publisher.
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 | Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel by C. F. W. Walther
Buy new: $25.66 / Used from: $23.99 The author, a founder of the LCMS, cleared up misconceptions & brought assurance. The gospel is not a demand, but the good news that Christ has already accomplished everything needed for forgiveness.
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 | The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.44 Bonhöffer calls antinomians, especially those who bear the Lutheran name, back to the faith of Luther and the Lutheran confessions. However, Bonhöffer was not as orthodox as Sasse.
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 | Bondage of the Will, The by Martin Luther
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $2.07 According to Luther, the errors of Erasmus, like those of the Arians, the Reformed, and other heretics, resulted from a disregard of the clear words of Scripture, not from their lack of clarity.
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| This Is My Body: Luther's Contention for the Real Presence in the Sacrament of the Altar by Hermann Sasse
Buy new: $22.99 / Used from: $11.48 Scholarly and clear account of the main controversy between Luther and Zwingli, with a detailed description of their debate at Marburg.
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| The Lord's Supper/De CoenaDomini by Martin Chemnitz
Buy new: $34.99 / Used from: $15.95 Interprets the words of institution as if they were clear, defending them against Zwingli, Calvin, and their early followers, by an author of the Lutheran confessions.
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 | The Lonely Way: Selected Essays and Letters of Hermann Sasse: (1941-1976 by Hermann Sasse
Buy new: $19.98 / Used from: $12.98 Timely information on the lack of doctrinal unity among the earliest Christians, and on fellowship between orthodox and heterodox Christians. Documents Calvin's agreement with the Zwinglians.
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| Baptism (Confessional Lutheran dogmatics) by David P Scaer
Buy used from: $34.95 Why a Lutheran, unlike a Calvinist or Roman Catholic, continues to depend on his or her baptism. Explains why baptismal regeneration occurs by faith alone.
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 | Discourses in Matthew: Jesus Teaches the Church by David P. Scaer
Buy new: $24.98 / Used from: $19.64 Accounts for the observation that the gospel accounts were written for liturgical use.
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 | The Sermon on the Mount: The Church's First Statement of the Gospel by David P. Scaer
Buy new: $23.99 / Used from: $17.75 The author takes issue with Luther's reading the Sermon primarily as law rather than as gospel. Includes observations on John 6.
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 | The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $24.49 What all genuine Lutherans believe, from Martin Luther to the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church.
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 | Luther on Vocation by Gustaf Wingren
Buy new: $27.00 / Used from: $18.00 How each baptized Christian's calling crucifies the selfish flesh, enabling the new man to supernaturally rise in response to the good news to freely serve out of genuine love for the neighbor.
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 | Christus Victor: An Historical Study of the Three Main Types of the Idea of Atonement by Gustaf Aulen
Buy new: $21.60 / Used from: $16.44 Draws a sharp contrast between the atonement theology of the apostles, the early church fathers, and the Lutheran catechisms on the one hand, and the atonement theology of Anselm, later Protestant orthodoxy, and Roman Catholicism on the other hand. The contrast is overstated in the treatment of Lutheranism, but the fathers' emphasis on God's victory over his enemies is explained well.
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 | The Structure of Lutheranism (Concordia Classics Series) by Werner Elert
Buy new: $19.98 / Used from: $19.97 Dispels many misconceptions. Notes that the sacramental controversy led Luther to reject the medieval spatial conception of heaven (beyond the starry firmament) even before science rejected it.
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| The Two Natures in Christ: A Monograph Concerning the Two Natures..., Their Hypostatic Union, the Communication of Their Attributes, and Related Questions...on ... and the Witnesses of the Ancient Church by Martin Chemnitz
Buy used from: $35.00 More advanced material answering Reformed objections, by an author of the Lutheran confessions. Read this before making accusations of christological heresy.
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 | Perspectives Old and New on Paul: The "Lutheran" Paul and His Critics by Stephen Westerholm
Buy new: $26.28 / Used from: $18.49 An insightful and well researched critique of 'the new perspective on Paul.' ('Lutheran' therein is defined much more broadly than in the other books on this list.)
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| Dawning Realm: God s saving reign through the incarnate Word
My Dawning Realm web site has references to many of the above books.
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