This volume offers Martin Luther's preaching and exposition of the Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude in modern English, with a translator's preface that presents the work as a vivid encounter with Luther's mind and method. Fresh, forceful, and unmistakably Reformation in spirit, these pages defend justification by faith alone, uphold Scripture as the final authority, and expose the abuses of papal religion with plainspoken urgency. The translator emphasizes both the book's historical impo...

This rare early study of vagabonds and beggars in Central Europe reads like a rogue's handbook, a social history, and a moral warning all at once. Edited by Martin Luther and translated into English with notes by John Camden Hotten, it presents rough, candid, pre-Reformation material whose old-fashioned style only sharpens its authenticity. At its center is The Book of Vagabonds, an early sixteenth-century survey of mendicant life, criminal customs, and cant speech, first printed in Augsbu...

Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

Martin Luther's Catechism opens as a passionate call to Christians, and especially pastors, to remain lifelong students of God's Word. Rejecting laziness, pride, and spiritual complacency, Luther presents the Catechism as daily nourishment: a summary of the whole Christian faith, a shield against temptation, and a source of comfort, light, and strength. He insists that even the learned must keep returning to its teachings, for mastery of the Ten Commandments unlocks a deeper understanding ...

These selections from Martin Luther's Table Talk offer a vivid, unsoftened glimpse into the reformer's mind: his theology, his temper, and his relentless moral vision. Preserved through the labor of Johann Goldschmid Aurifaber and later carried into English amid stories of concealment, danger, and providential rescue, the sayings are presented as a treasure of Christian teaching, practical wisdom, and spiritual admonition. Luther defends the Bible as God's living word, superior to all huma...

This volume presents Martin Luther's Epistle Sermons for Epiphany, Easter, Pentecost, and related feasts, framed by a spirited defense of Luther as a missionary theologian whose preaching helped carry the Gospel far beyond Wittenberg. Drawing on sermons, hymns, and biblical interpretation, the editor portrays him not simply as a reformer but as a thinker deeply concerned with evangelization, the heathen, and the church's worldwide witness. The result is a rich resource for pastors, lay rea...

Martin Luther's Treatise on Good Works emerges here as a pastoral answer to a troubled Christian world, not a grand reform manifesto. Written first as a promised sermon and then expanded for a wider audience, it speaks plainly in German for ordinary believers and is dedicated to Duke John of Saxony so that a leading prince may grasp why true morality depends on faith. Luther attacks the confusion of his age: the idea that human effort, public piety, or church status can earn God's favor. A...

Martin Luther's Commentary on Galatians is a forceful, accessible rendering of one of the Reformer's defining works, shaped to bring his expansive Latin lectures within reach of modern readers without losing their urgency. Rooted in Luther's lifelong conviction that Galatians most clearly expresses the heart of the Gospel, it presents a theology of salvation that still confronts pride, tradition, and false authority with uncompromising clarity. At its center is the battle over justificatio...

Joseph Stump's instructional handbook offers a careful, orderly guide to Luther's Small Catechism, designed for pastors, catechumens, and students who need both a teaching outline and a study aid. Moving through the Ten Commandments, the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, Baptism, and the Sacrament of the Altar, it combines Scripture references, review questions, and doctrinal explanation in a thetical style meant to unite Christian truth into a connected whole. The result is a practical manual for...

Martin Luther's Epistle Sermons from Trinity Sunday through Advent offers a vivid, pastorally charged guide to the Christian life, translated and introduced for English readers by Prof. John Nicholas Lenker. Intended as a devotional companion for homes, congregations, and individual believers, the volume presents Luther as a clear, warm, and urgent teacher whose sermons bring Scripture into daily life and stand as a major pillar of Protestant devotional literature. From the opening meditat...

This volume presents Martin Luther's Genesis commentary as a major work of Reformation theology, devotional insight, and biblical exposition, especially valuable for modern students, pastors, and readers of the Old Testament. Moving chapter by chapter through Genesis 1–4, it explores creation, the Sabbath, Paradise, the Fall, Cain and Abel, and the origins of marriage and family, showing Luther as a teacher who began and ended his ministry in Scripture. Alongside that commentary stands a p...

In this fierce appeal to Pope Leo X, Martin Luther defends his conduct while insisting that his battle is not against the pope's person but against false doctrine, corruption, and the tyranny of human authority. He recounts failed attempts at peace, the meddling of John Eccius, the mishandling of Cardinal Cajetan, and the interventions of Charles Miltitz, all of which deepened a controversy Luther says he never sought. Yet beneath the polemic lies a sweeping theological argument: Christian...