Dr. Anna Vind

Fleeing Plague

History & Biography

“Reading Luther has never been more applicable. With five hundred years of distance, he gives timeless advice about handling epidemics with 'love of neighbor as guiding principle.' A popular and widespread pamphlet in its own time, which ought to be read again today. The edition is carefully introduced and annotated by Anna Marie Johnson.”

Sola

Theology

“Through this dense book on the Reformation "sola" principles, written into his new American context and presenting works from the years around the Jubilee of 2017, one gets a clear notion of the golden thread in Volker Leppin's yearslong and significant scholarship on Martin Luther. Leppin still pursues his "old experiment" of reading Luther as a medieval human being: it is the Luther of differences and transformations within history, not of opposition to and break from his own time. The book is historical, but it also has a strong and thought-provoking contemporary ecumenical agenda: read it and ponder upon it!”