If there are any of you who would like to familiarize yourself with some classic Lutheran texts, here are twenty suggestions. I’ve tried to give a sampling from each of the distinguishing eras in Lutheran history, namely, the Reformation, Confessional, Scholastic, Pietist, Modern, and Contemporary periods.
- Martin Luther, Select Writings, (d. 1546)
- Phillip Melancthon, Loci Communes, (1559)
- The Book of Concord, (1580)
- Martin Chemnitz, Ministry, Word, and Sacraments: An Enchiridion, (1593)
- Johann Arndt, True Christianity, (1610)
- Johann Gerhard, Theological Commonplaces, (1625)
- Phillipp Jakob Spener, Pia Desideria, (1675)
- August Herman Franke & Nicolas Ludwig, Count von Zinzendorf, Select Writings, (1700s)
- Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, Notebook of a Colonial Clergyman, (d. 1787)
- Soren Kierkegaard, Select Writings, (d. 1855)
- Gustaf Aulen, Christus Victor, (1931)
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship, (1937)
- Gerhard Forde, The Law-Gospel Debate, (1969)
- Heiko Oberman, Luther: Man between God and the Devil, (1982)
- Robert Jenson, Systematic Theology, (1997)
- Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, (1999)
- Tuomo Mannermaa, Christ Present in Faith: Luther’s View of Justification, (2005)
- Eberhard Jungel, Justification: The Heart of the Christian Faith, (2006)
- Oswald Bayer, Theology the Lutheran Way, (2007)
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