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HELPFUL LIBRARY RESOURCES
Commentaries:
Allbeck, Willard Dow. Studies in the Lutheran Confessions. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1968.
Forell, George Wolfgang, and James F. McCue. Confessing One Faith: A Joint Commentary on the Augsburg Confession by Lutheran and Catholic Theologians. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1982.
Grane, Leif. The Augsburg Confession: A Commentary. Translated by John H. Rasmussen. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1987.
Concordance:
Concordance to the Book of Concord. Edited by Kenneth E. Larson. Milwaukee: Northwestern Publishing House, 1989. [in reference section]
Historical Background:
Bente, F. Historical Introductions to the Book of Concord. St. Louis: Concordia, 1965. [in reference section]
Lund, Eric, ed. Documents from the History of Lutheranism, 1517-1750. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2002. [in reference section]
Reu, J. M. The Augsburg Confession: A Collection of Sources. Reprinted. Concordia Seminary Press, n.d.
Maurer, Wilhelm. Historical Commentary on the Augsburg Confession. Translated by H. George Anderson. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1986.
Encyclopedias:
The Encyclopedia of the Lutheran Church. Edited by Julius Bodensieck. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1965. 3 vols. [in reference section]
Lutheran Cyclopedia. Edited by Erwin L. Lueker. Rev. ed. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1975. [in reference section]
Theology:
Schlink, Edmund. Theology of the Lutheran Confessions. Translated by Paul F. Koehneke and Herbert J. A. Bouman. Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press, 1961.
SOME INTERNET RESOURCES
Project Wittenberg (texts of some of Luther’s writings and some confessional documents)
Lutherstadt Wittenberg (pictures and information about the town of Wittenberg)
Lutherstadt Wittenberg – Luther (pictures and information about Luther and other important figures in the Reformation)
Selections from the Lutherhalle Wittenberg Collection (portrait of Luther and book cover plate by Lucas Cranach)
Condemning the Errors of Martin Luther (text of the papal bull “Exsurge Domine” which excommunicated Luther)
Treasures of Saxon State Library – The Reformation in Germany (images and information about significant persons, objects and documents in the Reformation)
Internet Medieval Sourcebook (texts of various documents, some from the Reformation era)
Reformation Picture Gallery – People (a picture gallery)
The Roman Confutation (reply to Augsburg Confession by papal theologians)
The Philip Melanchthon Quinquennia 1997 (information about Melanchthon and some of his writings)
Kessler Collection of the Pitts Theology Library (archive of images of Reformation woodcuts)
LINKS TO READINGS FOR UNIT I
Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification
LINKS TO READINGS FOR UNIT II
ELCA Ecumenical Agreements [click on "Full Communion"]
The Catechumenate among Lutherans
Theses on Law and Gospel, by C.F.W. Walther