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Althaus, Paul. The Theology of Martin Luther (translated by Robert C. Schultz) (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1966).

Ambrose, Saint. Letter 63, The Fathers of the Church, Vol. 26 (Washington: The Catholic University of America, 1954).

Ambrose, Saint. “The Mysteries,” The Fathers of the Church, Vol. 44 (Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 1963).

 

Arand, Charles P., and Robert Kolb. The Genius of Luther’s Theology (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2008).

Aune, David E., editor. The Blackwell Companion to the New Testament (Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).

“Basic Documents in Church and Ministry Discussions,” Faithful Word, Vol. 7, No. 1 (February 1970).

 

Baumler, Gary, and Kermit Moldenhauer, editors. Christian Worship: Handbook (Milwaukee: Northwestern Publishing House, 1993).

 

Becker, Siegbert W. “The Inspiration of Scripture,” This Steadfast Word (Lutheran Free Conference Publications, 1965).

 

Becker, Siegbert W. The Scriptures: Inspired of God (Milwaukee: Northwestern Publishing House, 1971).

 

Bergendoff, Conrad. The Doctrine of the Church in American Lutheranism (Philadelphia: Board of Publication of the United Lutheran Church in America, 1956).

 

Beyer, Oswald. Martin Luther’s Theology (translated by Thomas H. Trapp) (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008.

The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, edited by Robert Kolb and Timothy J. Wengert (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2000).

The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, edited by Theodore G. Tappert (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1959).

 

Brown, Edgar S., Jr. Living the Liturgy (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1961).

 

Brug, John F. Church Fellowship: Working Together for the Truth (Milwaukee: Northwestern Publishing House, 1996.

 

Brug, John F. Review of Evangelical Lutheran Dogmatics, Volume IV, by Adolf Hoenecke, in Wisconsin Lutheran Quarterly, Vol. 97, No. 4 (Fall 2000).

 

Brug, John F. The Ministry of the Word (Milwaukee: Northwestern Publishing House, 2009).

 

Brug, John F. “Walther and Fellowship,” Wisconsin Lutheran Quarterly, Vol. 109, No. 1 (Winter 2012).

Buenger, John. “An Attempt at Reaching Full Understanding in the Controversy on the Doctrine of the Church and the Ministry,” Clergy Bulletin, Vol. X, No. 12 (August 1951).

 

Chemnitz, Martin. Examination of the Council of Trent, Part II (translated by Fred Kramer) (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1978).

 

Chemnitz, Martin. Ministry, Word, and Sacraments: An Enchiridion (translated by Luther Poellot) (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1981).

Chytraeus, David. On Sacrifice (translated by John Warwick Montgomery) (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1962).

Concordia Triglotta (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1921).

 

D. Martin Luthers Werke (Weimarer Ausgabe) 48.

 

Dallmann, William, W. H. T. Dau, and Theodore Engelder, editors. Walther and the Church (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1938).

Dau, W. H. T. “Material for the Catechist,” Eighth Outline, Theological Quarterly, Vol. XXIII, No. 1 (January 1919).

 

Elert, Werner. The Structure of Lutheranism (translated by Walter A. Hansen) (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1962).

 

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Fehrmann, John R., and Daniel Preus, editors. The Office of the Holy Ministry (Crestwood, Missouri: The Luther Academy, 1996).

 

Feuerhahn, Ronald F., and Jeffrey J. Kloha, editors. Scripture and the Church: Selected Essays of Hermann Sasse (Saint Louis: Concordia Seminary, 1995).

“Fraternal Agreement on the Common Chest of the Entire Assembly of Leisnig,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 45 (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1962).

 

Gerberding, George Henry. The Lutheran Pastor (seventh edition) (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1915).

Gerhard, Johann. On the Ecclesiastical Ministry, Part One (translated by Richard J. Dinda) (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2011).

Gerhard, Johann. On the Ecclesiastical Ministry, Part Two (translated by Richard J. Dinda) (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2012).

 

Giertz, Bo. Christ’s Church: Her Biblical Roots, Her Dramatic History, Her Saving Presence, Her Glorious Future (translated by Hans Andrae) (Eugene, Oregon: Resource Publications, 2010).

 

Haas, John A. W., and Henry Eyster Jacobs, editors. Lutheran Cyclopedia (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1899).

 

Hardt, Tom G. A. “The Confessional Principle: Church Fellowship in the Ancient and in the Lutheran Church,” Logia, Vol. VIII, No. 2 (Eastertide 1999).

 

Harrison, Matthew C. At Home in the House of My Fathers (Fort Wayne, Indiana: Lutheran Legacy, 2009).

 

Harrison, Matthew C., and John T. Pless, editors. The Ordination of Women in Biblical Lutheran Perspective (third edition) (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2012).

 

Henkel, William. “The Status of Woman in the Public Life of the Congregation,” Wisconsin Lutheran Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 3 (July 1961).

Herl, Joseph. Worship Wars in Early Lutheranism: Choir, Congregation, and Three Centuries of Conflict (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).

 

Herrmann, Gottfried. “The Path of the Evangelisch-Lutherischen Freikirche (ELFK) into the Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference (CELC) and the Doctrine of Church and Ministry” (translated by Michael Seifert) (2000). Online at http://www.wlsessays.net/files/HerrmannELFK.pdf

 

Herrmann, Gottfried. “The Theological Development of the WELS With Particular Reference to Its Doctrine of the Ministry,” Wisconsin Lutheran Quarterly, Vol. 96, No. 2 (Spring 1999) (translated by Wilbert R. Gawrisch).

 

Hoenecke, Adolf. Evangelical Lutheran Dogmatics, Vol. IV (translated by Joel Fredrich, Paul Prange, and Bill Tackmier) (Milwaukee: Northwestern Publishing House, 1999).

 

Hoenecke, Adolf. “Farewell Sermon” (preached at St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church in Milwaukee on December 7, 1891) (2008) (translated by Peter Metzger and Jeffrey Grundmeier). Online at http://www.studiumexcitare.com/content/105

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Hove, Elling. Christian Doctrine (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1930).

 

Jacobs, Henry Eyster. Martin Luther: The Hero of the Reformation (Philadelphia: General Council Publication House, 1898).

Jacobs, Henry Eyster. Memoirs of Henry Eyster Jacobs (edited by Henry E. Horn) (1938), 2 vols.

Jacobs, Henry Eyster. A Summary of the Christian Faith (Philadelphia: The United Lutheran Publication House, 1905).

 

Jacobs, Henry Eyster. “Theses on the Ministry and Ordination,” Lutheran Church Review, Vol. XXVII, No. 1 (January 1908).

 

Jahn, Curtis A., editor. Essays on Church Fellowship (Milwaukee: North western Publishing House, 1996).

Jahn, Curtis A., editor. Here We Stand: A Confessional Christian Study of Worldviews (Milwaukee: Northwestern Publishing House, 2010).

 

Kaehler, E. W. “Does a Congregation Ordinarily Have the Right Temporarily to Commit an Essential Part of the Holy Preaching Office to a Layman?,” Logia, Vol. VI, No. 3 (Holy Trinity 1997) (translated by Mark D. Nispel).

 

Kalb, Friedrich. Theology of Worship in 17th-Century Lutheranism (translated by Henry P. A. Hamann) (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1965).

 

Karant-Nunn, Susan C. “Continuity and Change: Some Effects of the Reformation on the Women of Zwickau,” Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. XII, No. 2 (Summer 1982).

Karant-Nunn, Susan C. Luther’s Pastors: The Reformation in the Ernestine Countryside (Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1979).

 

Karant-Nunn, Susan C., and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, editors. Luther on Women: A Sourcebook (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).

 

Klotsche, E. H. Christian Symbolics (revised edition) (Des Moines, Iowa: The Lutheran Literary Board, 1929).

 

Kolb, Robert, and James A. Nestingen, editors. Sources and Contexts of The Book of Concord (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001).

 

Kolden, Marc, and Todd Nichol, editors. Called and Ordained: Lutheran Perspectives on the Office of the Ministry (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990).

 

Kooiman, Willem Jan. Luther and the Bible (translated by John Schmidt) (Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press, 1961).

 

Korthals, James F. “Publication of the Book of Concord – 425th Anniversary,” Wisconsin Lutheran Quarterly, Vol. 102, No. 3 (Summer 2005).

 

Krauth, Charles Porterfield. The Bible a Perfect Book (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Henry C. Neinstedt, 1857).

 

Krauth, Charles Porterfield. “Church Polity,” Part I, Lutheran Church Review, Vol. II, Whole No. 8 (October 1883).

 

Krauth, Charles Porterfield. The Conservative Reformation and Its Theology (Philadelphia: General Council Publication Board, 1871).

 

Krauth, Charles Porterfield. “The Doctrine of the Ministry Thetically Stated (Third Article),” Lutheran and Missionary, Vol. XIV, No. 15 (January 21, 1875).

 

Krauth, Charles Porterfield. “The Doctrine of the Ministry Thetically Stated (Fourth Article),” Lutheran and Missionary, Vol. XIV, No. 19 (February 18, 1875).

Krauth, Charles Porterfield. “Thetical Statement of the Doctrine Concerning the Ministry of the Gospel” (First Article), Lutheran and Missionary, Vol. XIV, No. 12 (December 31, 1874).

 

Krauth, Charles Porterfield. “Thetical Statement of the Doctrine of the Ministry (Second Article),” Lutheran and Missionary, Vol. XIV, No. 13 (January 7, 1875).

 

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Kretzmann, Paul E. Review of Disputed Doctrines by C. H. Little, in Concordia Theological Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 12 (December 1933).

Lange, Lyle W., editor. Our Great Heritage (Milwaukee: Northwestern Publishing House, 1991), 3 vols.

Lawrenz, Carl J. “An Evaluation of Walther’s Theses on the Church and Ministry,” Wisconsin Lutheran Quarterly, Vol. 79, No. 2 (Spring 1982).

“Lay Celebration of the Sacrament of the Altar,” Logia, Vol. II, No. 1 (Epiphany/January 1993).

Lectures on the Augsburg Confession (Philadelphia: Lutheran Publication Society, 1888).

 

Lehenbauer, Walter, and Kurt E. Marquart. “Theology and Practice of ‘The Divine Call’: A Minority Opinion” (2003). Online at http://www.lcms.org/Document.fdoc?src=lcm&id=999

 

Liefeld, Walter L., and Ruth A. Tucker. Daughters of the Church: Women and Ministry from New Testament Times to the Present (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1987).

 

Lillegard, George O., editor. Faith of Our Fathers (Mankato, Minnesota: Lutheran Synod Book Company, 1953).

 

Little, C. H. Disputed Doctrines: A Study in Biblical and Dogmatic Theology (Burlington, Iowa: The Lutheran Literary Board, 1933).

 

Loades, Ann, editor. Feminist Theology: A Reader (Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1990).

 

Loehe, Wilhelm. Aphorisms on the New Testament Offices and their Relationship to the Congregation (translated by John R. Stephenson) (Malone, Texas: Repristination Press, 2008).

 

Loy, Matthias. The Augsburg Confession: An Introduction to Its Study and an Exposition of Its Contents (Columbus, Ohio: Lutheran Book Concern, 1908).

 

Loy, Matthias. Essay on the Ministerial Office (Columbus, Ohio: Schulze & Gassmann, 1870).

 

Lund, Eric. Documents from the History of Lutheranism 1517-1750 (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2002).

 

Luther, Martin. “Against the Roman Papacy, an Institution of the Devil,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 41 (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1966).

Luther, Martin. “Concerning the Ministry,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 40 (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1958).

 

Luther, Martin. “Confession Concerning Christ’s Supper” (1528), Luther’s Works, Vol. 37 (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1961).

 

Luther, Martin. “Defense and Explanation of All the Articles,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 32 (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1958).

 

Luther, Martin. “Dr. Luther’s Retraction of the Error Forced Upon Him by the Most Highly Learned Priest of God, Sir Jerome Emser, Vicar in Meissen,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 39 (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1970).

 

Luther, Martin. “The Estate of Marriage” (1522), Luther’s Works, Vol. 45 (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1962).

 

Luther, Martin. “The Feast of Saints Peter and Paul,” Festival Sermons of Martin Luther (The Church Postils) (Dearborn, Michigan: Mark V Publications, 2005), Summer Section.

Luther, Martin. “Infiltrating and Clandestine Preachers,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 40 (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1958).

 

Luther, Martin. “Lectures on 1 Timothy,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 28 (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1973).

Luther, Martin. “Lectures on Galatians” (1535), Luther’s Works, Vol. 26 (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1963).

 

Luther, Martin. “Lectures on Galatians” (1535), Luther’s Works, Vol. 27 (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1964).

 

Luther, Martin. “Lectures on Genesis,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 1 (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1958).

 

Luther, Martin. “Lectures on Genesis,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 2 (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1960).

Luther, Martin. “Lectures on Genesis,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 3 (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1961).

 

Luther, Martin. “Lectures on Genesis,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 5 (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1968).

 

Luther, Martin. “Lectures on Genesis,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 7 (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1965).

 

Luther, Martin. “Lectures on Jonah,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 19 (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1974).

Luther, Martin. “Lectures on Titus,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 29 (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1968).

 

Luther, Martin. “A Letter of Dr. Martin Luther concerning his Book on the Private Mass,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 38 (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1971).

 

Luther, Martin. Letter to Francis Burchart, April 20, 1536, Luther’s Works, Vol. 50 (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975).

 

Luther, Martin. Luther: Letters of Spiritual Counsel (translated and edited by Theodore G. Tappert) (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1960).

Luther, Martin. “The Misuse of the Mass,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 36 (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1959).

 

Luther, Martin. “On the Councils and the Church,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 41 (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1966).

 

Luther, Martin. “On the Papacy in Rome Against the Most Celebrated Romanist in Leipzig,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 39 (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1970).

 

Luther, Martin. “Psalm 45,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 12 (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1955).

 

Luther, Martin. “Psalm 110,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 13 (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1956).

Luther, Martin. “Sermon for the Feast of Saint Stephen, the Holy Martyr,” Festival Sermons of Martin Luther (The Church Postils) (Dearborn, Michigan: Mark V Publications, 2005), Winter Section.

 

Luther, Martin. “Sermon for the First Sunday after Epiphany,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 58 (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2010).

Luther, Martin. “Sermon for the Sunday after Easter” (Third Sermon) (1540), Complete Sermons of Martin Luther (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Books, 2000), 7 vols.

 

Luther, Martin. “A Sermon on Keeping Children in School,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 46 (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1967).

Luther, Martin. “Sermons on the First Epistle of St. Peter,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 30 (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1967).

 

Luther, Martin. “Ten Sermons on the Catechism,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 51 (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1959).

Luther, Martin. “That a Christian Assembly or Congregation Has the Right and the Power to Judge All Teaching and to Call, Appoint, and Dismiss Teachers, Established and Proven by Scripture,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 39 (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1970).

Luther, Martin. “To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation Concerning the Reform of the Christian Estate,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 44 (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1966).

Luther, Martin. “Treatise on Good Works,” Luther’s Works, Vol. 44 (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1966).

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Marquart, Kurt E. Anatomy of an Explosion: A Theological Analysis of the Missouri Synod Conflict (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1978).

Marquart, Kurt E. The Church and Her Fellowship, Ministry, and Governance (corrected edition) (Fort Wayne, Indiana: The International Foundation for Lutheran Confessional Research, 1995).

 

Marquart, Kurt E. Ministry and Ordination: Confessional Perspectives (Fort Wayne, Indiana: Concordia Theological Seminary Press, 1983).

 

Marquart, Kurt E. “Truth and/or Consequences,” Lutheran Synod Quarterly, Vol. VIII, No. 2 (Winter 1967-68).

 

Marquart, Kurt E., John R. Stephenson, and Bjarne W. Teigen, editors. A Lively Legacy: Essays in Honor of Robert Preus (Fort Wayne, Indiana: Concordia Theological Seminary, 1985).

 

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Meyer, Carl S. From Log Cabin to Luther Tower (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1965).

 

Meyer, Carl S. Pioneers Find Friends (Decorah, Iowa: Luther College Press, 1963).

 

Moldstad, John A. “Public Ministry: ELS Perspective,” Lutheran Synod Quarterly, Vol. 51, Nos. 2-3 (June-September 2011).

 

Montgomery, John Warwick, editor. God’s Inerrant Word: An International Symposium on the Trustworthiness of Scripture (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, Inc., 1974).

Nass, Thomas P. “The Revised This We Believe of the WELS on the Ministry,” Logia, Vol. X, No. 3 (Holy Trinity 2001).

Nass, Thomas P. “What is ‘divinely instituted’ and what is ‘necessary’ in regard to the public ministry?” (2003). Unpublished essay.

Neve, J. L. “Shall Women Preach in the Congregation?: An Exegetical Treatise,” The Lutheran Quarterly, Vol. XXXIII, No. 3 (July 1903).

 

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Precht, Fred L. Lutheran Worship: History and Practice (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1993).

 

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Preus, J. A. O. The Second Martin: The Life and Theology of Martin Chemnitz (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1994).

 

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Reed, Luther D. The Lutheran Liturgy (revised edition) (Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press, 1947).

 

“A reply of the WELS Commission on Inter-Church Relations and of the ELS Board of Theology and Church Relations based on their synods’ public confession on the doctrine of church fellowship to a question regarding church fellowship raised by pastors from the Conference of Authentic Lutherans,” Lutheran Sentinel, Vol. 59, No. 14 (July 22, 1976).

 

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