Theology of Lutheran Confessio

by Edmund Schlink

Book Overview

In this classic translation of Theologie Der Lutherischen Bekenntnisschriften, Schlink answers key theological questions as he points to Scripture as the basis of the Lutheran Confessions, which are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800618831
• ISBN13: 9780800618834
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

faithful, comprehensive, and challenging

A book on the Lutheran confessions (or any confessional corpus) can go wrong in one of 2 directions. Such a book can be an unvarnished tribute, that sees no difficulties and no challenges in the confessions. Or a book can be slam on the confessions, a slash and burn coverage. Schlink walks a via media, managing to provide a critical (in the best sense of the word) overview of the confessions while at the same time standing under the confessions as a faithful student, learning, questioning, and helping the reader to do so at the same time. This is a challenging, engaging read, and was helpful both personally and ecclesiastically. I highly recommend it. I'd especially recommend the appendix, where Schlink works through some of the tough questions about the confessions and their engagement with the scriptures and the church fathers.

A good compendium to the Book of Concord

This is a good summary of Lutheran theology as found in the Book of Concord (Lutheran Confessions). I found it helpful to have read this before I tried reading the Book of Concord. It does not much go into any historical background for the Reformation era documents.