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Dietrich Bonhoeffer · 1930 · Book
Sanctorum Communio emerged from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's doctoral dissertation at Berlin University, completed when he was just twenty-one years old. Writing in the aftermath of World War I, as German society grappled with…
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer · 1931 · Treatise
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's second doctoral dissertation, completed at age twenty-five, addresses a fundamental crisis in Protestant theology between two competing understandings of revelation. Writing in the wake of Karl Barth's revolutionary emphasis on…
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer · 1937 · Book
Written during the rise of Nazi power in Germany, The Cost of Discipleship emerged from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's dual experience as a pastor in the underground Confessing Church and director of an illegal…
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer · 1939 · Book
Life Together emerged from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's experience directing an underground seminary at Finkenwalde from 1935 to 1937, where young pastors prepared for ministry under the Confessing Church while Nazi pressure mounted against…
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer · 1940–1943 · Treatise
Ethik emerged from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's wrestling with moral responsibility during his involvement in the conspiracy against Hitler. Written in fragments between 1940 and 1943 while serving as a double agent for the…
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer · 1951 · Letter
Letters and Papers from Prison collects the correspondence and theological fragments Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote during his two years of Nazi imprisonment, from April 1943 until his execution in April 1945. Arrested for…
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Thorleif Boman · 1954 · Book
Norwegian Lutheran theologian Thorleif Boman's comparative study emerged from mid-twentieth century biblical scholarship's growing awareness that understanding Scripture required grappling with fundamentally different ways of thinking. Writing in the wake of theological…
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Alpha and Omega Alpha and Omega: A Study in the Theology of Karl Barth
Robert Jenson · 1963 · Book
Robert Jenson's first major theological work emerged from his doctoral studies at the University of Heidelberg under Peter Brunner, where he grappled with Karl Barth's revolutionary reconceptualization of Christian doctrine. Writing in…
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William F. Beck; OT completed/edited by colleagues · 1963 · Scripture
Known commonly by the name of its translator, Beck's An American Translation is a significant Lutheran Bible in modern English, prepared as a fresh rendering of the complete Bible from the original-language…
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Robert Jenson · 1967 · Book
Robert Jenson's first book emerged from his doctoral dissertation at the University of Heidelberg, written during the theological ferment of the 1960s when American Christianity grappled with secularization, the "death of God"…
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God after God God after God: The God of the Past and the God of the Future, Seen in the Work of Karl Barth
Robert Jenson · 1969 · Book
Robert Jenson's theological debut emerged from the intellectual ferment of the late 1960s, when the "death of God" theology had declared traditional theism obsolete and many theologians sought new ways to speak…
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Knowledge of Things Hoped For The Knowledge of Things Hoped For: The Sense of Theological Discourse
Robert Jenson · 1969 · Book
Robert Jenson's first major theological work emerged from his wrestling with the crisis of theological language in the late 1960s. Writing as a young Lutheran theologian trained in both European and American…
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Story and Promise Story and Promise: A Brief Theology of the Gospel About Jesus
Robert Jenson · 1973 · Book
Robert Jenson's theological primer emerged from his teaching at Luther College and reflects the ferment of systematic theology in the early 1970s. Writing for students and educated church members rather than professional…
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Triune Identity The Triune Identity: God According to the Gospel
Robert Jenson · 1982 · Book
Robert Jenson's The Triune Identity emerged from his conviction that modern theology had lost its grip on the biblical understanding of God's identity. Writing as a Lutheran theologian engaged with both classical…
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America's Theologian America's Theologian: A Recommendation of Jonathan Edwards
Robert Jenson · 1988 · Book
Robert Jenson's America's Theologian emerged from his conviction that American theology had failed to recognize its greatest systematic mind. Writing in 1988, the distinguished Lutheran theologian argued that Jonathan Edwards deserved recognition…
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Phillip B. Giessler and committee · 1988 · Scripture
God's Word to the Nations New Testament marks an intermediate stage in the institutional history that led to GOD'S WORD. Limited in scope to the New Testament, it drew on the Greek…
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Unbaptized God Unbaptized God: The Basic Flaw in Ecumenical Theology
Robert Jenson · 1992 · Book
Robert Jenson's "Unbaptized God" emerged from his decades of involvement in Lutheran-Orthodox dialogue and broader ecumenical conversations, particularly his frustration with the theological impasses that repeatedly surfaced despite genuine goodwill among participants.…
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God's Word to the Nations translation team · 1995 · Scripture
GOD'S WORD Translation, published in 1995, is a complete English Bible rendered from Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, working from modern critical editions of the original-language texts. It emerged after the sponsoring society…
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Systematic Theology Systematic Theology, Volume 1: The Triune God
Robert Jenson · 1997 · Book
Robert Jenson's systematic theology emerges from his conviction that Christian doctrine has been captured by Greek philosophical categories that obscure the gospel's radical particularity. Writing as a Lutheran theologian deeply engaged with…
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Systematic Theology Systematic Theology, Volume 2: The Works of God
Robert Jenson · 1999 · Book
The second volume of Robert Jenson's ambitious systematic theology completes the project he began with his treatment of the doctrine of God. Where the first volume established his trinitarian framework and understanding…
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On Thinking the Human On Thinking the Human: Resolutions of Difficult Notions
Robert Jenson · 2003 · Book
Robert Jenson's On Thinking the Human emerged from his decades of wrestling with how Christian theology addresses fundamental questions about human nature in conversation with contemporary philosophy and science. Writing as a…
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Wartburg Project: more than 100 Lutheran pastors, professors, teachers and laypeople · 2019 · Scripture
The Evangelical Heritage Version is a new Lutheran English Bible designed for use in church, in worship, and in the home. Prepared as a fresh translation of the complete Bible from the…
