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Reverend Bob Smith
Kroemer Library
Concordia Theological Seminary

II. SELECTED WORKS OF MARTIN LUTHER, 1483 - 1546

...from Wittenberg's Martin Luther Page includes biography, hymns, Disputation on the Divinity and Humanity of Christ, Let Your Sins Be Strong, Luther's catechisms, and of course, Luther's Ninety-five Theses, amongst an ever growing collection.

III. SELECTED HISTORIC WORKS FROM OTHERS:

• Jakob Andreae (1528-1590)
  
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
  
• Johann Wilhalm Baier (1647-1695)
• Gerhard Friedrich Bente (1858-1930)
  
• Johannes Bugenhagen (1485-1558)
  
  Bugenhagen was one of the great figures of the first generation of the Lutheran reformation. Pastor of the town church in Wittenberg, he was Luther's confessor, one of the first Lutheran pastors to marry, married Luther, reorganized and brought the Lutheran tradition to: Hamburg, Brunswick, Luebeck, Lower Saxony, Minden, Osnabrueck, Goettingen, Soest, Bremen, Pomerania, Denmark and other places. He declined three Bishoprics and was appointed general superintendant of Saxony. This sermon is the official sermon at Luther's funeral. He is called the father of Lutheran Education.
  • A Christian Sermon Over the Body and At the Funeral of the Venerable Dr. Martin Luther, Preached by Mr. Johann Bugenhagen Pomeranus (1546)
    A file from Pitts Theological Library, Emory University
• Martin Chemnitz (1522-1586)
  
• Paul Gerhardt (1607-1676)
  
• Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560)
• Carl Ferdinand Walther (1811-1887)
• Friedrich Conrad Dietrich Wyneken (1810-1876)

IV. HYMNALS

• [Turn to our online hymnal]
• Following are more complete versions of
  The Lutheran Hymnal (1941),
  The Hymns of Martin Luther (1883), and
  The Evangelical Lutheran Hymnbook (1927).

V. THE BOOK OF CONCORD (1580)

• The Augsburg Confession (1530)
  
• The Small Catechism of Martin Luther (1530)
  
• The Large Catechism of Martin Luther (1530)
  
• The Smalcald Articles of Martin Luther (1537)
• Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope (1537)

VI. RESEARCH REVIEWS

• The Luther Letter: A Commentary on Martin Luther, the Reformation and the Modern World, edited by Reverend William R. Russell, Ph.D.

VII. THE LUTHERAN CHURCH - MISSOURI SYNOD

• LCMS Documents at this archive include a brief doctrinal statement, and works prepared by the LCMS Commission on Theology and Church Relations, and Council of Presidents.

VIII. SERMON NOTES ON THE RUSSIAN GOSPELS, DR. HAROLD BULS (1920-1997)

• [The Sermon Notes of Harold Buls On the Gospel Lessons of the Ingrian Lutheran Church of Russia]

This document results from a cooperative effort between Project Wittenberg, Gary Bogart of Cornell University, Reverend Bob Smith, Project Coordinator and Concordia Theological Seminary. Document somewhat revised, 10 March 2021

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