Derek R. Nelson is Professor of Religion and Stephen S. Bowen Professor of Liberal Arts at Wabash College. He is the co-author of Resilient Reformer: The Life and Thought of Martin Luther (Fortress, 2015) and the author or editor of eight other books in the history of theology.Paul R. Hinlicky is Tise Professor of Lutheran Studies at Roanoke College. He is the author of many books in systematic and historical theology, including Beloved Community: Critical Dogmatics after Christendom (Eerdmans, 2015).

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Derek Nelson and Paul Hinlicky have assembled a diverse and able group of scholars to produce the standard reference work on the life and thought of Martin Luther. Whether someone reads one sarticle at a time, or reads the cluster of articles pertaining to one of the four topical categories, this work will surely incite them to ask new, critical questions of Luther and how his thought has been historically received...[T]his encyclopedia should be found in colleges, graduate schools, and seminaries where Luther is studied.