Luther's life / Luther as late medieval theologian: his positive and negative use of nominalism and realism / Luther's roots in monastic-mystical piety / Luther and medieval reform movements, particularly the Hussites / Luther's absorption of medieval biblical interpretation and his use of the Church Fathers / Humanism, Luther, and the Wittenberg Reformation / Luther's transformation of medieval thought: discontinuity and continuity / Luther's transformation of medieval thought: continuity and discontinuity / Luther on God and history / Luther's use of language / Luther's hermeneutics of distinctions: law and gospel, two kinds of righteousness, two realms, freedom and bondage / Luther's doctrine of God / Luther's theology of creation / Luther's anthropology / Luther's teaching on sin and evil / Justification by faith: the view of the Mannernaa school / Luther on justification as forensic and effective / Luther on Christ's person and work / Luther on the Holy Spirit and his use of God's word / Luther on baptism and penance / Luther and the Lord's Supper / Luther on the church / Luther's eschatology / The framework for Christian living: Luther on the Christian's callings / Luther on marriage, sexuality, and the family / Luther's treatment of economic life / Luther's treatment of political and societal life / Piety, prayer, and worship in Luther's view of daily life / Luther's views of the Jews and Turks / Luther as a resource for Christian dialogue with other world religions / The influence of the genres of exegetical instruction, preaching, and catechesis on Luther / How Luther's engagement in pastoral care shaped his theology / Luther's thought assumed form in polemics / Luther's thought took shape in translation of scripture and hymns / The Wittenberg circle / Luther's Roman Catholic critics / Luther and the Schwärmer / Luther's authority in the late Reformation and Protestant orthodoxy / The use of Luther's thought in pietism and the Enlightenment / The use of Luther's thought in the nineteenth century and the Luther renaissance / Marxist evaluations of Luther's thought / Roman Catholic Luther research in the twentieth century: from rejection to rehabilitation / Luther's abiding significance for world Protestantism / Luther and Asia / Luther in Africa / Luther studies in Latin America / Venturing into the study of Luther