Introduction / Mark Mattes
Theological Prolegomena
Prolegomena to Lutheran theology / R. David Nelson
Luther on the authority of scripture / Vitor Westhelle
God, Creation, and Law
God's hiddenness / Oswald Bayer
The unbounded creator and the bounded creatures / Charles P. Arand
Being in the image of God / Oswald Bayer
The law of God / Sarah Hinklicky Wilson
Jesus Christ, Fallenness, and Redemption
Sin, between law and gospel / Piotr J. Malysz
The person of Christ in sixteenth-century Lutheran teaching / Robert Kolb
Thomas Aquinas and Martin Chemnitz on the Hypostatic Union / Jack D. Kilcrease
Christ, the hated God / Steven D. Paulson and Nicholas Hopman
Justificatio and the Gospel
Pauline prolegomena to a theology of justification / R. David Nelson
Justification as the basis and boundary of theology / Oswald Bayer
The promise of predestination / Steven D. Paulson and Jerome Klotz
Holy Spirit, Church, and the Means of Grace
The generative grammar of the Holy Spirit / Lois Malcolm
The Church / Cheryl Peterson
The sacrament of baptism / Gordon A. Jensen
Confession and absolution / John T. Pless
The sacrament of the altar / Gordon A. Jensen
Christian LIfe and Eschatology
Law and gospel, personal and political / Robert Benne
Luther on vocation / Karlfried Froehlich
Luther on prayer as authentic communication / Mary Jane Haemig
A Lutheran approach to eschatology / Jeffrey G. Silcock