Description

Indispensable for anyone interested in Lutheran piety and hymnody, this volume brings together important examples of spiritual meditations by 17th-century German Lutheran church leaders and a collection of the great hymns composed in that era. Includes a complete new translation of Sacred Meditations, a highly influential devotional text written by Johann Gerhard, the most prominent Lutheran theologian of the Age of Orthodoxy, as well as an excerpt from one of his later books. In addition are excerpts from Heinrich Müller and Christian Scriver, influential reformers between the late Reformation and rise of Lutheran Pietism. Several of these texts are translated here into English for the first time.