A Documentary History of Lutheranism ─ From the Reformation to Pietism / from the Enlightenment to the Present

This unique collection of excerpts from Lutheran historical documents--many translated here for the first time--presents readers with a full picture of how the Lutheran movement developed in its thought and practice. Covering not only theology but also church life, popular piety, and influential historical events, the primary documents include theological treatises, confessional statements, liturgical texts, devotional writings, hymns, letters and diaries, satirical polemics, political documents, woodcuts, and pamphlet literature.

This first volume covers the chronological period from Luther's first calls for reform to the development of Lutheran Orthodoxy and Pietism during the seventeenth century. The judiciously selected and carefully translated texts as well as the contextualizing information provided in each chapter's introductory essay acquaint readers with the turbulence and fervor of this revolutionary Christian movement, its struggles for survival and consolidation, and its further evolution up to the dawn of the Enlightenment.

Eric Lund is professor emeritus of religion at St. Olaf College. He taught courses on church history and historical theology for thirty-six years and served for nine years as the college's director of international studies. His publications have covered the Protestant Reformation, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Lutheran spirituality, and the English reformer, William Tyndale.

Mark Granquist is associate professor of church history at Luther Seminary in Saint. Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of Lutherans in America: A New History (Fortress Press, 2015), and Scandinavian Pietists: Spiritual Writings from the 19th Century Denmark, Sweden, and Finland (2015), and coauthor, with Maria Erling, of The Augustana Story: Shaping Lutheran Identity in North America (Fortress Press, 2008).