Martin Luther and the Lutheran Church

This CD includes 22 books and other documents by and about Martin Luther and about the Lutheran Church.

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), these books are organized for easy access. Individual books are in plain text format. You can open these books by clicking on the titles in this index page with your Web browser or a recent Windows-based word processor. In addition, many of the same books are also provided in a single file in Word (.doc) format, with internal links.

According to Wikipedia: "Martin Luther (10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German monk, theologian, university professor, Father of Protestantism, and church reformer whose ideas influenced the Protestant Reformation and changed the course of Western civilization. Luther's theology challenged the authority of the papacy by holding that the Bible is the only infallible source of religious authority and that all baptized Christians under Jesus are a universal priesthood.[8] According to Luther, salvation is a gift of God, received only by true repentance and faith in Jesus as the Messiah, a faith given by God and unmediated by the church. At the Diet of Worms assembly over freedom of conscience in 1521, Luther's confrontation with the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and his refusal to submit to the authority of the Emperor resulted in his excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church and being declared an outlaw of the state as a consequence. His translation of the Bible into the vernacular of the people made the Scriptures more accessible to them, and had a tremendous political impact on the church and on German culture. It furthered the development of a standard version of the German language, added several principles to the art of translation, and influenced the translation of the English King James Bible. His hymns inspired the development of congregational singing within Christianity."

Table of Contents

---

Works by Martin Luther

As a single multi-book file in Word (.doc) format, with internal links
As individual books in plain text format

• 95 Theses by Martin Luther (short)
• Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther
• Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther
• Disputation on the Divinity and Humanity of Christ by Martin Luther, 1540
• Dr. Martin Luther's Deutsche Geistliche Lieder (The Hymns of Martin Luther)
• The Epistles of St. Peter and St. jude Preached and Explained, 1523-1524
• Luther's Epistle Sermons, Trinity Sunday to Advent
• The Large Catechism by Martin Luther
• Letters from Luther
• Let Your Sins Be Strong (Luther to Melanchton, 1521)
• An Offer of Apology to King Henry VIII by Martin Luther, 1528
• To Several Nuns, 1524
• Luther to George Spalatin, 1514
• Luther's Epistle Sermons (Epiphany, Easter, and Pentecost)
• Luther on Sin and the Flood: Commentary on Genesis by John Nicholas Lenker
• Open Letter on Translating by Martin Luther (short)
• Open Letter to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation by Martin Luther, 1520
• Introduction
• Cover Letters
• The Three Walls of the Romanists
• Abuses to be Discussed in Council
• Proposals for Reform
• part 1
• part 2
• part 3
• Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther, translated by Captain Henry Bell
• The Smalcald Articles by Martin Luther (short)
• Treatise on Good Works by Martin Luther

Works about Martin Luther and His Writings

• An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism by Joseph Stump, 1910
• The Life and Acts of Martin Luther by Philip Melancthon (1497-1560) (short)
• Life of Luther by Julius Kostlin
• Luther and the Reformation by Joseph Seiss, 1883
• Luther Examined and Reexamined by W.H.T. Dan

Works by Luther's Colleagues

• Augsburg Confession by Philip Melancthon, in English
• Augsburg Confession by Philip Melancthon, in Latin and German
• An Apology of the Augsburg Confession by Philip Melancthon
• Of the Power and Primacy of the Pope by Philipp Melancthon (1497-1560) (short)

Works about the Lutheran Church

• American Luteranism Vindicated by S.S. Schmucker
• American Lutheranism by F. Bente,
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Lutherans of New York by George Werner, 1918
• The Organization of the Congregation in the Early Luthern Churches by Beale Schumacker
• The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church by G.H. Gerberding