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Project Wittenberg is the first step towards an international electronic library of Lutheranism. As such, we are always adding and changing our sites. This site contains Project Wittenberg texts in final form. For the latest versions of our texts, many of which are still being assembled and refined, drop in at Project Wittenberg's Electronic Lutheran Web.

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Reverend Bob Smith
Walther Library
Concordia Theological Seminary

II. SELECTED WORKS OF MARTIN LUTHER, 1483 - 1546

...from Wittenberg's Martin Luther Page includes biography, hymns, Disputation on the Divinity and Humanity of Christ, Let Your Sins Be Strong, Luther's catechisms, and of course, Luther's Ninety-five Theses, amongst an ever growing collection.

III. SELECTED HISTORIC WORKS FROM OTHERS:

• Jakob Andreae (1528-1590)
  
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
  
• Johann Wilhalm Baier (1647-1695)
• Gerhard Friedrich Bente (1858-1930)
  
• Johannes Bugenhagen (1485-1558)
  
  Bugenhagen was one of the great figures of the first generation of the Lutheran reformation. Pastor of the town church in Wittenberg, he was Luther's confessor, one of the first Lutheran pastors to marry, married Luther, reorganized and brought the Lutheran tradition to: Hamburg, Brunswick, Luebeck, Lower Saxony, Minden, Osnabrueck, Goettingen, Soest, Bremen, Pomerania, Denmark and other places. He declined three Bishoprics and was appointed general superintendant of Saxony. This sermon is the official sermon at Luther's funeral. He is called the father of Lutheran Education.
  • A Christian Sermon Over the Body and At the Funeral of the Venerable Dr. Martin Luther, Preached by Mr. Johann Bugenhagen Pomeranus (1546)
    A file from Pitts Theological Library, Emory University
• Martin Chemnitz (1522-1586)
  
• Paul Gerhardt (1607-1676)
  
• Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560)
• Carl Ferdinand Walther (1811-1887)
• Friedrich Conrad Dietrich Wyneken (1810-1876)

IV. HYMNALS

• [Turn to our online hymnal]
• Following are more complete versions of
  The Lutheran Hymnal (1941),
  The Hymns of Martin Luther (1883), and
  The Evangelical Lutheran Hymnbook (1927).

V. THE BOOK OF CONCORD (1580)

• The Augsburg Confession (1530)
  
• The Small Catechism of Martin Luther (1530)
  
• The Large Catechism of Martin Luther (1530)
  
• The Smalcald Articles of Martin Luther (1537)
• Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope (1537)

VI. RESEARCH REVIEWS

• The Luther Letter: A Commentary on Martin Luther, the Reformation and the Modern World, edited by Reverend William R. Russell, Ph.D.

VII. THE LUTHERAN CHURCH - MISSOURI SYNOD

• LCMS Documents at this archive include a brief doctrinal statement, and works prepared by the LCMS Commission on Theology and Church Relations, and Council of Presidents.

VIII. SERMON NOTES ON THE RUSSIAN GOSPELS, DR. HAROLD BULS (1920-1997)

• [The Sermon Notes of Harold Buls On the Gospel Lessons of the Ingrian Lutheran Church of Russia]

IX. WITTENBERG DISCUSSION LISTS:

• WITTENBERG - The Lutheran History Discussion List: [Description] and [Wittenberg List Archive]

X. MEET REVEREND BOB SMITH . . .

ICLnet first met Reverend Bob in connection with his work on Project Wittenberg. Bob is an avid scholar in the Lutheran tradition and has done much to increase that interest amongst the internet community. A bibliography of his published works is available on his home page (noted below). Bob's vision is to use networking as a "highway of light" to promote the Lord's work. He is the Christian who forever signs his e-mail notes, "Peace"

- G. Bogart (NJB at ICLnet)

• Bob Smith's Home Page
  
• The Electric Lutheran:
  How the Internet Can Enhance the Study of American Lutheranism
• The Internet Bible

XI. Additional LCMS Locations:

From Concordia University, River Forest, both of the following pages provide connections to Lutheran news services, Lutheran forums, LCMS congregations, Lutheran oriented ministries, and services and information.

• LutherNet: Information Technology Serving the Eternal World
• The Lutheran Church --Missouri Synod
  
• Walther Library of Concordia Theological Seminary, Ft. Wayne, Indiana
  

XII. Project Wittenberg Mirror Sites:

• A Message for Potential Project Wittenberg Document Distributors and Mirror Sites.
• World Wide Study Bible
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library
• Project Gutenberg Web, and FTP Site

XIII. Style Guides:

• Project Wittenberg Abbreviations for Books of the Bible in HTML Links
• Project Wittenberg Greek Transliteration Table
• Rules for Formatting Project Wittenberg Documents
• The World Wide Study Bible and Project Wittenberg
• The Electronic Library of Lutheranism: Project Wittenberg Documents in Hypertext:
  • Pt. 1: Philosophy and Assumptions
  • Pt. 2: Practical Matters

XIV. More Resources On Line:

Electronic Lutheran Web, Project Wittenberg FTP

[Concordia Theolological Seminary]

[ICLnet FTP] and [ICLnet plain text holdings]

the luther project: devoted to interactive annotative study of the writing of Martin Luther, by Gary Mann, Augustana College, a past contributor to Project Wittenberg.

The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals includes a number of articles on C.F.W. Walther, and Luther and Lutheranism: An Introductory Bibliography.

Bibliothèque en-ligne d'oeuvres de théologie luthériennes, http://www.egliselutherienne.org/

The Concordia Historical Institute. CHI is the Archives of the Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod. One of the first modern church body archives, it is also one of the largest. It's collection covers not only the LCMS, but all of Lutheranism. the Institute has remained strong supporters of Project Wittenberg from the beginnings of our initiative.

Readings in Martin Luther, is a part of Professor Lyman Baker's suggested reading for The Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation, Introduction to Western Humanities-- Baroque & Enlightment, at Kansas State University.

The Theology Website makes a number of Luther files available at its Electronic Text Index. A brief biographical sketch of Martin Luther is also made available.

H-German (History-Net) at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

ALEX Database at Oxford University