Luther's Works - Volume 76

<p><strong style=color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>About this Volume</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>Luther's collected sermons for the church year were originally published in two series: the Church Postil and the House Postil. These were among his most popular works. Aside from his catechisms they did more to teach people the Reformation than any other book. The new translation of the Church Postil follows the last edition of Luther's life from 1540-1544 and includes Luther's often-extensive revisions to his own work with significant variant readings from earlier editions translated in the footnotes.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>This volume includes the sermons on the Epistle and Gospel readings from New Year through Holy Week plus Meditation on the Holy Suffering of Christ and Sermon on Confession and the Sacrament. The appendix contains Luther's prefaces to earlier editions of the Church Postil. All the sermons include footnotes indicating Luther's edits over the course of his life all rendered in clear lucid English.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>Benefits of Luther's Works American Edition vol. 76 (Church Postil II):</span></p><ol><li>Accurate and clear translation. (An early 20th-century version of these sermons was inaccurate and stilted.)</li><li>Presents the Church Postil as the mature Luther wanted it to be:</li></ol><ul><li>Includes Luther's often-extensive revisions to his own work with significant variant readings from earlier editions translated in the footnotes.</li><li>Includes the version of the summer sermons that Luther approved (Cruciger's edition not Roth's edition).</li><li>Epistles and Gospels are interspersed as they were originally printed showing the progression of Luther's teaching through the course of the church year. (The early 20th-century Lenker version followed the revisionist 1700 edition of Philipp Jakob Spener not Luther's mature final edition of 1540 and 1544.)</li></ul><ol><li>Includes the careful explanatory introductions and footnotes that have become a hallmark of Luther's Works: American Edition.</li><li>Includes cross-references and a table showing where Luther's sermons can be found in the German originals.</li><li>Fully indexed.</li></ol><p><span style=color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>Edited by Benjamin T.G. Mayes and James L. Langebartels.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>About the Series</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>The 28 planned new volumes are intended to reflect both modern and sixteenth-century interests and to expand the coverage of genres underrepresented in the existing volumes such as Luther's sermons and disputations. The primary basis for the translation is the comprehensive Weimar edition.</span></p>