About this Volume"Upon reflection, it is obvious that a preface by Martin Luther would be a much soughtafter addition to any volume coming out of his wing of the Reformation. Fortunately, not only for the authors who merited one of these paratexts, but for modern scholars as well, the reformer did take on the mantle of a writer of prefaces. The results, collected in volumes 59 and 60 of Luthers Works, are strongly recommended reading for Reformation scholars, especially for those interested in his thoughts, activities, and acquaintances as well as his reading list during the quarter century after the Diet of Worms (1521), as he and many for whom he wrote prefaces were engaged in building the Lutheran church." Andrew Villalon, in Sixteenth Century Journal 44, no. 3 (2013) 849. This volume contains Luthers prefaces to the works of others from 1532 to 1545. Amid the outpouring of print in the wake of the Reformation, Lutherespecially in the prefaces to his own workssometimes expressed the wish that his own books might disappear and give place to the Bible alone. In his prefaces to the works of others, however, Luther developed the opposite rhetorical strategy, hailing their books as faithful guides to the Scriptures or as edifices that, because of their confession of Christ, would "surely stand secure on the Rock upon which they are built."Although Luther complained of the many "useless, harmful books" that the Gospels opponents flooded the world with, the multiplication of...

Binding: Hardback;408 pages; Publisher: Concordia Publishing House; Classification: HRC; Weight: 887 g; Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 27

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