Foreword

Translator-Editor's Note

Part One Introduction: Preliminary Considerations and Presuppositions Relative to a Description of Luther's Theology

Criteria for Describing Luther's Theology

The Situation in the Church around 1500

The Theological Situation around 1500, Especially in Erfurt and Wittenberg

Luther's Personal Development

The Uniqueness of Luther's Theology

Part Two Luther's Theology in Its Historical Development

Basic Theological Ideas in Luther's Marginal Notes on Augustine and Peter Lombard (1509/1510)

Early Reformation Theology in the First Psalms Lecture (1513-1515)

The Structure of Reformation Theology in the Period of Pauline Exegesis (1515-1518)

The Reformation Discovery

Luther's Attack on Indulgences (1517/1518)

Luther's Dispute with Cajetan over Justification, Faith, and Church Authority

Luther's Debate with Eck on the Authority of Pope and Council (1519)

Luther's Dispute with the Sacramental Teaching of His Time (1519/1520)

Luther's Dispute with the Monastic Ideal (1520/1521)

Luther's Dispute with the Wittenberg Reformers

Luther's Dispute with Radical Tendencies to ``Right'' and ``Left'': The Distinction between the Two Kingdoms and the Two Governments

Luther's Dispute with Erasmus

Luther's Dispute with Zwingli: The Lord's Supper Controversy

Luther's Dispute with the Antinomians

Part Three Luther's Theology in Its Systematic Context

Sola scriptura

Reason and Faith

The View of God

Christology

Spiritus Creator

Humanity as Creature of God

Sin

Justification

Law and Gospel

The Church

Office and Ordination

Baptism

The Lord's Supper

The Doctrine of the Two Kingdoms

Eschatology

Excursus: Luther's Attitude toward the Jews

Bibliography

Index of Names

Index of Subjects