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Atonement
Liturgy and Communion
Bibliography
Books
Atonement in Confessional Lutheran Theology: Franz Pieper
Atonement in Lutheran Orthodoxy: Johannes Quenstedt
Atonement in Lutheran Orthodoxy: Baier-Walther
Atonement in Lutheran Orthodoxy: Abraham Calov
Vicarious Satisfaction in Lutheran Catechisms, Confessions, and Hymns
Catechism and Confessions
Vicarious Satisfaction in Explanations of Luther’s Small Catechism
Vicarious Satisfaction in the Lutheran Confessions
Hymns
Vicarious Satisfaction in Lutheran Hymns
Book Reviews
Jack D. Kilcrease, The Doctrine of the Atonement from Luther to Forde
Theodore Dierks, Reconciliation and Justification
Junius B. Remensnyder, Atonement and Modern Thought
Burnell F. Eckardt, Anselm and Luther on the Atonement: Was It “Necessary”?
Benjamin Wheaton, Suffering, Not Power: Atonement in the Middle Ages
Errors and Truth
Atonement in Our Circles and Church
The Cracked Foundation of Forde’s Radical Lutheranism
Nice Guys Ruin the Consolation of Christ’s Blood
The Saddest Chapter in the History of Mankind
NEC-NOS
Finally! Some Satisfaction in the Atonement
How Do Sump Pumps and Sacrifice Work?
Bibliography
Bibliography: Liturgy and Communion
Worship in General
Relevant Worship: The Story of Your Life
Worship: What for? Who acts? Which way does it flow?
How Can Worship Begin — Baptism: No Stepping on the Lord’s Train
Parts of the Service
Why the Preface, Agnus Dei, and Pax Domini? Real Presence
Nunc Dimittis: Seeing God’s Savior and Salvation
What was I thinking when reciting the Creed?
Real Presence
Would you deny Real Presence to escape the jaws of beasts?
Vicarious Satisfaction in Liturgy
Vicarious Satisfaction in Liturgy: Worship in General
Vicarious Satisfaction in Liturgy: Invocation
Vicarious Satisfaction in Liturgy: Agnus Dei (Lamb of God)
NEC-NOS
The Sacrament and the Second Petition in Leviticus
Hushing Christ’s Words of Institution: Then and Now
Publisher’s Preface: Luther’s Liturgical Criteria, Bryan D. Spinks
Luther’s Liturgical Criteria and His Reform of the Canon of the Mass
Luther reformed the Canon of the Mass, the way the Sacrament of the Altar is administered. He has been branded a liturgical hack.
Was he a hack or a surgeon? What part did Jesus’ own words have in Luther’s reform. Is the Lord’s Supper a sacrifice we are to offer to God, or is it a testament and gift that Christ gives to the Church?
World renowned scholar Bryan D. Spinks reports the findings of his research. Spinks identifies errors of scholastic procedure in the body of literature. He examines root sources. By his industry and workmanlike procedure, Spinks succeeds at what he set out to do: Let Luther answer for himself.
As John T. Pless says in the Foreword: “It took an Anglican to rescue Luther from the Lutheran liturgical gurus. That was my first response to reading this tightly-packed and potent monograph years ago. Its value has not diminished with the passage of time. … Spinks demonstrates that Luther’s liturgical revisions were not sloppily done but carried out with integrity based on his confession of justification by faith alone. Luther understood God to be the donor in the liturgy of the Lord’s Supper. Thanksgiving which flows from the gift dare not blur this fact. The Sacrament is the Gospel.”
Spinks’ achievement gives this work an exceptional place in the literature. A new audience needs it. This is why it should be republished. First published in 1982, it has gone out of print. Used copies are rare and expensive. Dr. Spinks once more gives a precious gift to the Church by readily and graciously granting his permission for this new edition.
With new musical engravings of the Verba and The German Sanctus by Jon D. Vieker and commendation by William C. Weedon, this new edition bursts the epiphany of Spinks’ brilliance into the sight of a new audience and generation.