Genius of Luther`s Theology – A Wittenberg Way of Thinking for the Contemporary Church

Robert Kolb (PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison) is Mission Professor of Systematic Theology and director of the Institute for Mission Studies at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. He is the author of numerous books, including Martin Luther as Prophet, Teacher, and Hero, and co-editor of The Book of Concord. Charles P. Arand (ThD, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis) holds the Waldemar and June Schuette Chair in Systematic Theology at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. He is the author of That I May Be His Own: An Overview of Luther's Catechisms and Testing the Boundaries: Windows to Lutheran Identity.

• Introduction: The Genius of Luther's Thought: Two Presuppositions of Wittenberg TheologyPart 1: "Our Theology": Luther's Definition of the Human Creature through "Two Kinds of Righteousness"1. Anthropology as a Matrix for Luther's Way of Thinking2. The Core of Human Identity3. The Shape of Human Performance4. The Subversion of Our Human Identity5. The Dynamic of FaithPart 2: When the Word Is Spoken, All Things Are Possible: Luther and the Word of God6. The Functions of the Word7. The Enfleshed and Written Forms of God's Word8. The "Means of Grace" as Forms of God's Word9. God's Word Takes Form as His People Convey It to One AnotherConclusion: Thinking with Luther in the Twenty-first Century