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Johns Hopkins University Press

With this issue, Lutheran Quarterly enters into a publishing agreement with Johns Hopkins University Press, one of the oldest University presses in the Americas and the publisher of major scholarly journals. Henceforth, LQ will also be available full-text online through Johns Hopkins’ Project MUSE, a leading platform for the digital humanities. See our updated front matter for contact information. In their 2015 Scholarly Journals Subscription Catalog, Publisher William Breichner expressed the JHUP commitment to their journals:

Each of our 79 journals sparks global conversations and innovations. These, in turn, augment the value and impact of each publication’s original content— so articles, essays, reviews, and analyses are relevant long after their publication birth.

Ripples of diverse readers widen in the digital age, as the Johns Hopkins University Press continues to serve its constituents with a mission as fresh today as it was in 1878: to identify and publish new works that advance knowledge, and to disseminate that knowledge far and wide.

LQ at 30

With this issue, Lutheran Quarterly also begins its thirtieth year of publishing the new series. As with previous anniversary years, a complete index of essays will be available online (our own website and on the JHUP LQ page) at the end of the year. With help from Johns Hopkins, we will also be developing an anniversary timeline of milestones, photographs, and commentary to mark the thirty years of publication. As for highlights, the “best of LQ” essays were published as a book for our twenty-fifth year: Justification is for Preaching (Pickwick Publications, 2012), edited by LQ’s only managing editor for all thirty years, Virgil (Bud) Thompson. Now to be added to that select number are more recent essays, at least the editor’s picks: Oswald Bayer, “A Public Mystery,” LQ 26 (2012): 125–41; Mark Mattes, “Discipleship in Lutheran Perspective,” LQ 26 (2012): 142–163; Berndt Hamm, “Martin Luther’s Revolutionary Theology of Pure Gift without Reciprocation,” LQ 29 (2015): 125–161; and, from our last issue, Volker Leppin and Timothy Wengert, “Sources for and against the Posting of the Ninety-Five Theses,” LQ 29 (2015): 373–398.

LQ Books

Beyond thirty years of issues, Lutheran Quarterly has also published a score of books, principally in our eponymous series with Eerdmans. Forthcoming in 2016 will be a collection of essays on nineteenth-century theologians, many of them first in LQ, edited by Matthew Becker for Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, following on the 2013 publication of Twentieth-Century Lutheran Theologians, edited by Mark Mattes. All told, the thirteen volumes of LQ Books from Eerdmans so far have sold over 25,000 copies, giving Lutheran theology and history another outlet beyond these quarterly pages.

Concordia Historical Institute Awards

Annually, the Concordia Historical Institute (St. Louis) holds a banquet to honor publications in American Lutheranism, whether essays, books, or congregational histories. LQ essays have often been designated for such awards, as was a special issue that became a book about the “New Sweden” settlement in the seventeenth century. This year, what started out as an LQ essay and then became a book on its own was honored: J. Francis Watson’s The Nazi Spy Pastor: Carl Krepper and the War in America (Praeger, 2014). Review on pp. 115f.

Luther Documents Become Part of UNESCO “Memory of the World” Register

Fourteen of Luther’s early writings or personal books have entered the “Memory of the World” register of documents that constitute the intellectual and cultural legacy of peoples around the world. The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization initiated this register and continues to administer it, annually selecting new additions for the register. In October 2015 the UNESCO “Memory of the World” committee approved the list of fourteen documents tracing significant elements in Luther’s early career. The list had been developed and presented by the Leibniz-Institute for European History in Mainz. The documents, housed in ten different libraries or archives, include Luther’s notes on the Psalms from his lectures 1513–1515; manuscript notes and the printed text copy prepared for students of his Romans lectures of 1515–1516; his copy of the Hebrew Bible...