Article: Bound Choice, Election and Wittenberg Theological Method: From Martin Luther to the Formula of Concord.(Book review)

BOUND CHOICE, ELECTION, AND WITTENBERG THEOLOGICAL METHOD: FROM MARTIN LUTHER TO THE FORMULA OF CONCORD. By Robert Kolb. Lutheran Quarterly Books. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2005. Pp. xiii + 381. $35.

Robert Kolb presents a fascinating study of the formation of Lutheran doctrine. He assesses the earliest influence and use of Luther's De servo arbitrio among what he calls the "Wittenberg circle .... the second set of receptors of Luther's work, those who taught and wrote in the third quarter of the sixteenth century" (275). K. carefully observes the "continuing experiments" of these theologians "in the search for the appropriate ways of delivering God's Word ...

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