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Lutheran Literature Catalog

This Trieste catalog of Classic Lutheran Literature contains a collection of books from all around the world. The similarity among the books in this catalog is that they are all brief, easy to read and comprehend. Please be aware that our catalogs include colorful and high-quality content, so you have to wait for a minute or less to download it fully.

The content of books in the catalog varies from the life of Martin Luther and translations of his spiritual songs to the 18th-century Lutheran Church in America along with a brief history of the Reformation in the 16th century to 18th and 19th century hymns translated from German into English. There are books in the catalog about the significance of the Old Testament and its connection with the New Testament with special reference to Martin Luther’s slogan of reformation and his struggle to bring theological education in reach of people. The collection includes books that are used for teaching in Sunday schools. This catalog by Trieste has everything you might imagine and search for, in just one place, and just a “click away”. Enjoy!

About this catalog

In 1517, Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the door of the Palatine Church in Wittenberg, thus challenging the authority of the Catholic Church and initiating Protestantism. The Lutheran Reformation has continued to the present day and has had a decisive influence on the history of Europe and the world.

Luther, as can be seen, was a reformer of medieval Christianity and opened the door to modern Christianity. The so-called Counter-Reformation (especially the Jesuits) was the other side of the same phenomenon, which was equally far away from primitive Christianity. The so-called contemporary and Latin American Liberation Theology (Latin America being the only colonial Christendom) signifies a new movement of profound transformation in the history of Christianity, since it returns to primitive Christianity in order, firstly, to reverse the inversion of Christianity (which began with Constantine in the 4th century, when Christianity was transformed from a persecuted and critical Christianity into the foundation of the domination of the slaves of the Roman Empire or the serfs of feudalism in the Germanic Holy Roman Empire).

And secondly, to reverse the second inversion of Christianity in the case of the European Christianities that became metropolitan, modern, colonialist (since the end of the 15th century, i.e. the Spanish, French, English, Danish, Danish, etc., and today American Christianities; the Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, Evangelical churches, etc.). This critique comes from their colonies, neo-colonies, or exploited nations of the global South.

Luther then became globally significant, and not merely provincial like other medieval Christian critics, because of the role that Northern Europe will play in connecting to the Atlantic, being able to separate from Rome and then producing the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment in the 18th century. Who would have thought that the discovery of the Atlantic by Europe (first and foremost Spain), and the mere eruption of America into world history, was the geopolitical condition of possibility for Luther's global significance?

As with everything else, it is always necessary to know more about a subject than just its history.

The life of Martin Luther is a subject of interest to many. Not only those who practice the Lutheran religions, but for historians, diplomats, and many others.

Literature is one of the most important things there is. It is the way experience of the past generations is transferred to the next generations as they want it to be detailed. It is the way to solidify the ideology and the spirit of what is thought, what is perceived, and what happens. To study literature is to make a human being a great connoisseur of humanity, an intellectual, a sage of life, and very intelligent.

The same is true about Lutheran Literature.

Religious expressions are born from writings such as the Bible to the cultural adaptation of people as a phenomenon of psychosis where they face different situations, always exclaiming the divinity of God and proposing sayings that refer to it, and literature has not been the exception by incorporating these expressions in the art of writing; seeing them with a broad and reasonable sense of expression. The great influence of religion in culture and history offers the possibility of re-creating and keeping religious expressions alive in the dialect of the people and also, in the narration of stories, poems, and novels.

For all these reasons and more, we present to you this Lutheran Literature Catalog. Here you can find Lutheran history books, classic Lutheran literature, Christian hymns, among others. Here you will find books that nurture the Lutheran faith as well as reflect many things of its culture and its people.

Some of them are:

THE WAY OF SALVATION IN THE LUTHERAN CHURCH

By George Henry Gerberding. A book that was a bestseller that touches not only the topic of salvation in the Lutheran Church but many others such as baptism, Sunday School, Catechism, Justification, and True Revivals.

HYMN BOOK FOR THE USE OF EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SCHOOLS AND CONGREGATIONS

Compiled and translated by August Crull. A compilation of hymns and doxologies that was in use inside the old Norwegian Synod, translated to English by Crull.

PAUL GERHARDT AS A HYMN WRITER AND HIS INFLUENCE ON ENGLISH HYMNODY

By Theodore Brown Hewitt. If you are more interested in German hymnology and classic inspirational poetry this book is for you. It has the most outstanding hymns of the Lutheran Church.

EARLY HISTORY OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA

By Charles William Schaeffer. A very complete book with materials collected from the Archives of the Ministerium of Pennsylvania, many congregational records and the Halle Archives at Harvard.

THE LUTHERAN MOVEMENT OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY: AN INTERPRETATION

By David Henry Bauslin. A very interesting and different book, as it provides an interpretation of historical times and events as seen by the author. He gives special attention to the moral, theological and ecclesiastical aspects of Lutheranism and speaks about the principles of the movement.