Tag: Reformation

Calvin’s commentaries

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John Calvin’s commentaries have been brought into varying English versions. The version published in Edinburgh by Calvin Translation Society, 1844–1856, is the version that has been reprinted by Baker Academic and Logos Bible Software.

Many of these volumes are openly available online. Below is a list with links to those that I’ve located thus far. Volumes not yet found are:

  • Psalms (vol. 1)
  • Isaiah (vol. 1)
  • Catholic Letters

Interested readers who may find these volumes are specially welcome to post links below to help complete the list.

Genesis (vol. 1, vol. 2)

A harmony of Exodus–Deuteronomy (vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4)

Joshua

Psalms (vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4, vol. 5)

Isaiah (vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4)

Jeremiah, Lamentations (vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4, vol. 5)

Ezekiel 1–20 (vol. 1, vol. 2)

Daniel (vol. 1, vol. 2)

Minor prophets (vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4, vol. 5)

A harmony of the Synoptics (vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3)

John (vol. 1, vol. 2)

Acts (vol. 1, vol. 2)

Romans

1–2 Corinthians (vol. 1, vol. 2)

Galatians, Ephesians

Philippians, Colossians, 1–2 Thessalonians

1–2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon

Hebrews

Catholic letters

Sorensen on Luther

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One of our current PhD students in Humanities, Rob Sorensen, has been featured on Baylor’s “Research on Religion” podcast. The discussion mostly revolves around Rob’s reflections on and in his Martin Luther and the German Reformation (Anthem Perspectives in History, Anthem Press, 2016).

For more about Rob, see his faculty page at the Bear Creek School. For more about Faulkner University’s PhD in Humanities, see the university website.

July's Luther Resources @ Logos

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Hans Iwand,
Hans Iwand

This month, Logos Bible Software is giving away Hans Iwand’s The Righteousness of Faith according to Luther (trans., Randi Lundell; Wipf & Stock, 2008, originally published in 1941). According to the product page, the volume:

is an important contribution to contemporary appreciation of Luther’s theological significance. Although Iwand wrote his study three decades after the beginning of the Luther Renaissance, it nevertheless developed some of the central insights of Luther scholarship during that period. Two concepts—in particular, promise and simultaneity—are crucial to an appreciative understanding of Luther’s doctrine of justification. The language of promise presents justification to the believer as a reality that has yet to arrive or is hidden under present reality. And the language of simultaneity attests that humans remain throughout their lives one in the same, sinner and saint.

Brett Muhlhan,
Brett Muhlhan

The companion $0.99-discount for the month is on Brett Muhlhan’s Being Shaped by Freedom: An Examination of Luther’s Development of Christian Liberty, 1520–1525 (Pickwick, 2012), which:

seeks to find the answer to this question by examination of two elements: What is Luther’s understanding of Christian freedom? How did his understanding stand up under the pressure of reformation? Muhlhan explores both of these elements and contends that the sublime beauty of Luther’s early understanding of Christian freedom . . . is consistently the same understanding he used to undermine papal heteronomy and refute radical legalism. . . . Muhlhan shares insight on how the relational character, cruciform substance, and complex structure of Luther’s concept of freedom enabled him to speak both polemically and catechetically with a clear and authoritative clarity that reinvoked the magnificence of Christ and him crucified for sinners.

For more information, please see the links above and the Logos Blog.