The Essential City of God : a reader and commentary
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City of God is Augustine's fullest treatment of church and society. This abridged edition includes commentary, essays, and other resources for readers to discover his work anew.
Return to the heart : the biblical spirituality of St. Augustine's confessions (2025 ebook)
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St. Augustine's Confessions is the first autobiography in Western literature and a perennial classic of rhetoric, philosophy, and theology. It is also one man's journey away from and back to God, finding himself along the way. And though Augustine's sin and his desires for love, happiness, and peace are his own, in them we can recognize aspects of our own experience.
Return to the Heart: The Biblical Spirituality of St. Augustine's Confessions invites readers to follow in the footsteps of an enduring spiritual master. Bringing St. Augustine's wisdom to a new generation, Shane Owens reveals that it is only in the heart-to-heart encounter with God that we become whole and understand ourselves.
Return to the Heart gives convincing testimony from St. Augustine to the reality that an ever-present God is at work in our lives to bring us to conversion—and to eternal life.
Nineteenth-Century Women's Movements and the Bible (2024 ebook)
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Nineteenth-Century Women's Movements and the Bible examines politically motivated women's movements in the nineteenth century, including the legal, cultural, and ecclesiastical contexts of women. Focusing on the period beginning with the French Revolution in 1789 through the end of World War I in 1918, contributors explore the many ways that women's lives were limited in both the public and domestic spheres. Essays consider the social, political, biblical, and theological factors that resulted in a multinational raising of awareness and emancipation for women in the nineteenth century and the strengthening of their international networks. The contributors include Angela Berlis, Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Ute Gerhard, Christiana de Groot, Arnfriður Guðmundsdóttir, Izaak J. de Hulster, Elisabeth Joris, Christine Lienemann-Perrin, Amanda Russell-Jones, Claudia Setzer, Aud V. Tønnessen, Adriana Valerio, and Royce M. Victor.
Here's a selection of the latest (Summer/Fall 2024) full-text journal articles in Church History from a variety of history journals:
Recent (Fall 2024) articles on Church History--ATLA Religion, including ATLA Root Review of "Church in a Secular Age"
Here are some other recent (Spring 2024) full-text journal articles in Church History from these journals, Themelios, European Journal of Theology, Concordia Theological Quarterly, and Christian Century:
Additional recent full-text articles on church history from ATLA (2023)
"Recontextualising theology: A challenge for theological training" by J. Beyers. Open access in Verbum et Ecclesia, May 2025
"A Study of Natural Theology from a Lutheran Perspective" by T. Pandiangan, in RERUM: Journal of Biblical Perspective (5.1: April 2025)
Enjoy the latest articles (some by Luther Sem's own Faculty), from Word & World recent issues (44.4), accessed via Luther Library's subscription to ATLA -Religion Database. This issue also includes the 1960 sermon by Gerhardt von Rad, Jacob Wrestles at Peniel: A Sermon on Genesis 32:22-31b. (translated by Luther Sem Emeritus Prof. F. Gaiser). See this PDF for full-text links: Word and World , Fall, 2024 . For the latest Word & World, Spring 2025, on the 'Care of Creation' (not yet indexed in the Atla Religion Database) see this link.
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Browse this partial list of currently received print journals in church history or theology (linked to their online version); you'll find the most recent Print version in the Reading Room at Luther Library.