Five Lutheran Books that Every Christian Should Read
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- I am often asked about books that one should read in order to gain a better understanding of the Christian faith from a Lutheran perspective. In this video, I discuss five books that I frequently recommend. Along with these, I also recommend reading the Lutheran Confessions, which is the official doctrinal statement of the Lutheran church. These can be found on BookofConcord.org.
1) The Spirituality of the Cross by Gene Edward Veith
2) The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church by George Henry Gerberding
3) The Saving Truth: Doctrine for Laypeople by Kurt Marquart
4) Grace Upon Grace by John Kleinig
5) For God so Loved the World by Lyle Lang
I wish I'd come to Lutheranism earlier in life. I am 62, and an ardent student of the reformation... and it's effect on Christianity. My wife and I begin our catechism next week, we are looking forward to a deep study with our beloved pastor. After a lifetime of frustrating experiences in the realm of "sanctification teachings", I feel totally liberated.
I'm learning... started attending in 2021/2022... I feel totally at peace. Still so much to learn.
Hi Pastor Cooper. I am new to Lutheranism so I am thankful that you give these video lectures. Please continue your good work.
I would be interested in the academic as well, Jordan, so feel free to name the books in that vein as well!
The Spirituality of the Cross changed my thinking entirely. I loved the book. I too had a Calvanist background.
The Spirituality of the Cross is my favorite!
The Spirituality of the Cross is one of my favorite books. Although I was raised in the Lutheran Church, I spent most of my adult life in another denomination. This book helped to guide me home.
In the process of leaving the Reformed tradition for Lutheran. This was very helpful.
im in this process is being very hard for me, but im getting better spiritualy after left reformed tradition
Congratulations
Great recommendations - thank you.
This is a good video. Thanks. I now have read some of the books recommended here. Make more videos like this.
Really appreciated this !
_Grace upon Grace_ seems to be right up my alley. Thx for the recommendation.
glad to see the "Spirituality of the Cross" listed first...a pastor friend recommend it months ago. Blown away!!
My mom was a teacher in the WELS school system. She gave me a copy of Lyle Lange's book and it's been sitting on my shelf for about 10 years. I need to actually read it.
This is very helpfull for all lutheran church of the world to knowing their tradition and doctrin even in liberal era.
Thanks Jordan!
My pastor's favorite teacher in seminary was Professor Marquardt
I have the second book published by Pastor Cooper and it is a book I would recommend also.
Thanks Pastor Cooper for this list, I would add "The Christian Faith: A Lutheran Exposition" by LCMS author Robert Kolb
What about the Catechisms of Luther?
Thanks for your recommendations. I would of taken a more old School path and gone right to the Book of Concord the Tappert translation is my favorite. If you think that is to long. Luther's Small Catechism with Explanation. i am ELS but the 1991 edition published by Concordia(LCMS) is my preference. Robert Hoerber book How to Read and Understand the Bible was very helpful to me and Commentary on Romans by Martin Luther is a must read. The Proper Destination Between Law and Gospel would by Wather (that might be misspelled) was a very helpful book as well. I know there Old but their reliable, and helpful.
“The Bondage of the Will” deserves to be on this list. It shows very clearly why Luther found his former religion unconvincing, and what and why he believed instead. Everyone who wants to argue about what Luther believed, and why, ought to read it. Then there might be less misunderstanding of what and why he believed.
Martin Hengel’s “Crucifixion” is another book very well worth reading. Anyone who reads it will find out, in great detail, just why the Christian preaching of Christ Crucified was so offensive in the Apostolic Age - and why it always is, and must be.
Joachim Jeremias’ “The Eucharistic Words of Jesus” is another must-read.
And Gustav Aulen’s “Christus Victor”.
I'm really struggling to remain protestant at this point. It'd be helpful if you could do a video on Eastern Orthodoxy, they seem to have it right in my mind.
How is your journey going on now?
Jordan, could you please do a video on how to go about starting a publishing company?
When I was a teenager in the 70s I checked out many heavy volume of Lutheran's Works. I loved them. It would be nice to have a whole set economy and paper back.
Typo Luther's Works.
Crazy to see how different this is from the newer videos
My favorite book of Luther was “The Bondage of the Will”. I read and reread it several times and his arguments against Erasmus revealed to me that Luther and Calvin had more in common than most Lutherans and Calvinists realize.
Hi Jordan, could you recommend any books on Lutheran ecclesiology? Thanks
I don’t see any link to get that way of salvation book!
A summary of Christian Doctrine by Edward W. A. Koehler. It's like a condensed version of Pieper's Dogmatics with less Hebrew, Greek, & German words for us who can't read those languages. And anything by P.E. Kretzmann, especially his 4 volume Popular Commentary of the Bible.
For a basic systematic theology, what are your thoughts on J.T. Mueller's Christian Dogmatics?
I'm not even a Lutheran (smile) but I like confessional Lutheranism so I use several books published by CPH.
I'm a KJV lover, not KJV-only, but I use The Lutheran Study Bible ESV compact with the matching compact Book of Concord, the blue 1963 small Catechism with explanation and the compact Treasury of Daily Prayer which again uses the ESV translation. I carry them in my bag with my KJV Thompson Chain Reference Bible.
I have many other books published by CPH including Mueller's Christian Dogmatics and Koehler's A Summary of Christian Doctrine and Small Catechism with Explanation. The ESv translation of the Apocrypha is there, also.
Someday I'll buy Pieper's Systematic Theology.
You mentioned some books I don't have, so thanks for the video.
you should become a Confessional Lutheran :)
Hello, have you read a set of Bible Commentary set through ?
Could you also put the books in the description? Thanks!
axegrinder01 Will do.
Bump :)
I can't see them in the description, so I'll write them down below:
The Spirituality of the Cross by Gene Edward Veiths
The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church by George Henry Gerberding
The Saving Truth: Doctrine for Laypeople by Kurt Marquart
Grace Upon Grace by John Kleinig
For God so Loved the World by Lyle Lange
@@Habackuk24 Thank you!
I'm curious as to what other books you would recommend as a refutation of the mass? Many Thanks
We don't refute the mass, though. If you look up Augsburg Confession article XXIV, the first thing it says is that we hold and celebrate the mass with highest reverence. BookOfConcord.org has the entirety of our confessions available to be viewed for free.
The Saving Truth is, in my opinion, hands down the best book for lay Lutherans to read.
What are some of the other books you would recommend??
who would you say are the biggest Lutheran scholars in print for doctrine, commentaries, and apologetics in the 20th century?
Just ordered the Spirituality of the cross
Thank you Pastor. Cooper. After learning of the Orthodox and Catholic Faith, the Lutheran Church is a renewal of my protestant faith without dumping the baby with the bath water.
Not a Lutheran but learning more about it. My wife's aunt is LCMS
Lutherans are kind of weird: Lutherans are Biblical but they are not Biblicists
Lutherans are Confessional but are not fundamentalists
Lutherans teach the functions of the Law but they are are not legalists
Lutherans preach the Gospel but they are not liberals
Lutherans love liturgy but they respect adiaphora
Lutherans do not venerate saints but they are not iconoclasts
Lutherans teach sanctification but they are not pietists
Lutherans take catechism seriously but they are not cultic
Lutherans are catholics but they are not Roman
Lutherans are orthodox but they are not Eastern
Lutherans are evangelicals but they are not generic Protestant
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What about The bondage of the will ?
Even Reformed folks like that one
Blessings
Reformed people like ONLY that one of Luther
@@Dilley_G45 😂 Yes, says this ex-Reformed Lutheran!
I looked up For God So Loved the World on Amazon. Stop cost was $7100.00. Lol
IM new to Protestant Tradition
I am interested in,Pardon ,Promise
and Power………..:::::::::::::::
Lutherans: Sola Scriptura
Also Lutherans: here’s Luther’s 54 volumes of complete works
How is the Book of Concord not on the list?
That should be a given. I wasn't including the Confessions on this list.
@@DrJordanBCooper Considering the decline of Christianity in the West, NO book--not even the Bible, should be a taken as a given. Religion is totally off the radar of many people--especially the young--today. I've met students (many more than one, unfortunately) at the college I work at who don't even know if their family is Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish, or Non-Christian. In that kind of environment, they probably don't even know who Jesus is or about the Bible.
Two branches of the Reformation? What about Protestants who are neither Lutheran nor Calvinist?
HotWax93 Lutheran and Reformed*
In the broad sense that he's using it "reformed", encapsulates both the Calvinist and Arminian strands of Protestantism.
There is debate as to whether or not Anglicanism is it's own branch, however as it has been influenced by (and participated in the further development of) both Calvinistic and Arminian ideas, it's possible to consider it also under the reformed tradition.
Every body can read and recite all the Bible chapter and verse and that is a point. But it is not the full meaning of salvation. You have to live what and how the Bible says. So obedience is the key. If people keep arguing with each other who is better than the other, then they are not following the true gospel of Jesus Christ... ❤️❤️❤️
Are you 100% obedient in your walk with Christ, every moment of the day? I am not ... and thanks to Christ who did live a perfect life for me, because I cannot.
Luthers small catechism
One book to every Lutheran and every one seeking God should read. It is called the Bible, the holy scriptures, the inerrant word of God. After you've mastered that one as far as you can take it in a good commentary would help you deepen your understanding, just remember is the word of God the only place you can hear from God the only true word that you can trust.
I've never heard of any of these books before. But, I know that Dietrich Bonhoeffer's THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP is an internationally-know spiritual classic which tells you more about the ethos (or at least, the desired ethos) of Lutheran theology and life. Yet, you omitted it from your list?!?!?!?
Bonhoeffer wasn't really Lutheran
"Bondage of the will" and "commentary on the galatians"
Nothing on flat earthers?:)
William Metz Haha. Sorry, not this time.
No Bonhoeffer?
You need one more subsciber!! Hahha
Soren Lundberg It's proof that I work for the Illuminati.
Jordan Cooper Lutheran spelled backwards was proof of that!! Jk! Love the videos! Thanks for spreading the faith!
Five Catholic books every believer should read (no particular order):
1. Autobiography of a Soul by St. Theresa of Lisieux
2. Rome, Sweet Home by Scott Hahn
3. Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis deSales
4. The Facts About Luther by Patrick O'Hare
5. The Glories of Mary by St. Alphonsus Liguori
I'm getting The Imitation of Christ.
I like the geology of the cross I would like more I just don't like the dresses that you wear as as clergy and infant baptism makes no sense to me at all
vestments have been used in the liturgical church since time eternal. They convey that the person is a clergy and is supposed to not make him stand out but rather to point to Christ.
Of course all these books are only to aid in understanding the only book we need: the Bible.
Got the book from a Pastor? And then you said she. O dear. Not a disciple of Jesus then.
No, it was a male.
Just read the the Bible. No other books necessary.
I would much rather hear 5 truths from Jesus than your opinion.. just saying. I thought Gods name was I AM
Feel free to not watch his videos. He is a pastor and makes a video so we can inform ourselves about books that can help us understanding the faith. He is entitled to his opinion as you are to yours
@@Dilley_G45 i don't want an opinion. Opinions are not truth its its your doubt, i can't believe in opinions. I need to know truth so i can believe in the truth. If pastors preach opinions then we might as well listen to buddhism, or any other religious person...Jesus made a way to know the truth or you might just be lost i I don't know. For Jesus said i am the way, the truth , the life and my sheep know my voice and another they will not follow and few there are that find it....
@@davidwhite6032 once again...don't watch the video then. He recommends books. He didn't call it a sermon. Feel free to watch it or not but don't dismiss his opinion because you disagree. He never said you shouldn't read the Bible. So just leave if you don't want to hear what man has to say. Unless you have an opinion as to why some of these books would be unbiblical to read.
@@davidwhite6032"They read from the Book of the Law of God, making it clear and giving the meaning so that the people could understand what was being read." (Nehemiah 8:8) It seems that expounding upon the Word of God has Scriptural sanction. Many more passages apply.
@@Dilley_G45 no one wants to hear an opinion we want truth.
2 Thessalonians 2:15 disproves sola scriptura. Matthew 25:31-46 and James 2:26 disprove sola fide. Lutheranism is wrong. Lutheranism is heresy. Only the Catholic Church is the True Church.
@Saxon Murray In St. Paul's writings there are two kinds of works he refers to: (1) "works of the law", the Levitical law, circumcision, no pork, animal sacrifice, etc., and (2) good works of charity. Jesus repealed the Levitical law at Luke 16:16, and whrn Paul says at Galatians 5:2 that if we are circumcized Christ profits us nothing, Paul is re-iterating Luke 16:16. Good works of charity are absolutely required for salvation, as Paul says at 1 Corinthians 13:1, 1 Corinthians 13:13, and several other places, as James says at James 2:24-26, James 1:22, and throughout his epistle, and as Jesus Himself says at Matthew 25:31-46 and in the Lazarus/rich man parable.
Good works = love. No love, no acts of love, no salvation.
@Saxon Murray Salvation is through faith alone? Does the Bible say that? Lets see what it does say: "Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only." That's James 2:24 from the KJV. That is the only verse in the entire Bible where the phrase "faith only" appears.
I'm glad you are doing good works. Keep up the good work.
Faith in Jesus means faith in everything Jesus taught, and Jesus made it very clear at Matthew 25:31-46 that good works are necessary for salvation.
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@Saxon Murray Jesus said good works are necessary for salvation. Luther said they are not (Luther actually said that good works are sins). So how can both Jesus and Luther be right?
@Saxon Murray Jesus said, at Matthew 25:31-46 that those who refused to feed the hungry and clothe the naked would go to Hell. How could He have been any clearer? Works are necessary for salvation (yes, so is faith(.
@Saxon Murray PROTESTANT: Salvation is by faith alone.
CATHOLIC: James 2:24 says, even in the KJV, "Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only."
PROTESTANT: Oh, er, well, um, er, well....
Here's 5 his Christians should read...& they,re inspired...Acts Romans Galatians Ephesians...& Colossians....
Thanks for your recommendations. I would of taken a more old School path and gone right to the Book of Concord the Tappert translation is my favorite. If you think that is to long. Luther's Small Catechism with Explanation. i am ELS but the 1991 edition published by Concordia(LCMS) is my preference. Robert Hoerber book How to Read and Understand the Bible was very helpful to me and Commentary on Romans by Martin Luther is a must read. The Proper Destination Between Law and Gospel would by Wather (that might be misspelled) was a very helpful book as well. I know there Old but their reliable, and helpful.