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VOLUME 1 - All Things New: Essays in Honor of Roy A. Harrisville (Contents)
Edited by Arland J. Hultgren, Donald H. Juel, and Jack Dean Kingsbury. 200 pp. $14.95 (paper)

VOLUME 2 - Martin Luther, Theologian of the Church: Collected Essays of George W. Forell (Contents)
Edited by William R. Russell. 280 pp. $14.95 (paper)

VOLUME 3 - The Quest for Jesus and the Christian Faith (Contents)
Edited by Frederick J. Gaiser. 224 pp. $16.95 (paper)

VOLUME 4 - God, Evil, and Suffering: Essays in Honor of Paul R. Sponheim (Contents)
Edited by Terence E. Fretheim and Curtis L. Thompson. 232 pp. $16.95 (paper)

VOLUME 5 - "And God Saw That It Was Good": Essays on Creation and God in Honor of Terence E. Fretheim (Contents)
Edited by Frederick J. Gaiser and Mark A. Throntveit.190 pp. $16.95 (paper)
 

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SUPPLEMENT SERIES VOLUME 1
All Things New: Essays in Honor of Roy A. Harrisville
Edited by Arland J. Hultgren, Donald H. Juel, and Jack Dean Kingsbury
200 pp. $14.95 (paper)

Contents:

DAVID L. TIEDE, Roy Alvin Harrisville: A Tribute
TERENCE E. FRETHEIM, Creator, Creature, and Co-Creation in Genesis 1-2
DENNIS T. OLSON, Temptations and Trials in Deut 6-11, Luke 4, and Luke 22-24
MARK A. THRONTVEIT, "Show 'em Who's Boss!" A Sermon on 1 Kings 18:20-40 and 1 Corinthians 1:18-25
DANIEL J. SIMUNDSON, Job and His Ministers
JAMES LIMBURG, Who Cares for the Earth? Psalm Eight and the Environment
FREDERICK J. GAISER, "Remember the Former Things of Old": A New Look at Isaiah 46:3-13
RICHARD W. NYSSE, A Theological Reading of Zephaniah's Audience
WENDELL W. FRERICHS, What Is New in Old Testament Apocalyptic
WILLIAM POEHLMANN, The Sadducees as Josephus Presents Them
JACK D. KINGSBURY, The Stilling of the Storm (Matthew 8:23-27)
ARLAND J. HULTGREN, Things New and Old at Matthew 13:52
DONALD H. JUEL, The Baptism of Jesus (Mark 1:9-11)
PAUL S. BERGE, Peter and Cephas and Paul
JAMES L. BOYCE, Graceful Imitation: "Imitators of Us and the Lord" (1 Thess 1:6)
JAMES ARNE NESTINGEN, Luther's Heidelberg Disputation
JAMES H. BURTNESS, Law and Life: A New Invitation to an Old Problem
CARL E. BRAATEN, Historical Criticism, Dogmatics, and Faith
GERHARD O. FORDE, The Newness of the New Testament
ROBERT W. JENSON, Simplistic Thoughts about the Authority of Scripture

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SUPPLEMENT SERIES VOLUME 2
Martin Luther, Theologian of the Church:
Collected Essays of George W. Forell
Edited by William R. Russell
280 pp. $14.95 (paper)

Contents:

"They Told What Had Happened on the Road"

Part I - On Luther
The Reformation and the Modern World
Faith Active in Love
Justification and Eschatology in Luther's Thought
Luther and Christian Liberty
Luther and Conscience
Luther's Conception of "Natural Orders"
The Political Use of the Law
Luther's Theology and Foreign Policy
Luther's Theology and Domestic Politics
Luther and the War against the Turks
Luther's View concerning the Imperial Foreign Policy
Luther Today

Part II - On Church and Theology
The Future of Theology in the Church
A Neglected Aspect of St. Paul's Doctrine of the Church
Eucharistic Presence as the Key to Theological Understanding
The Formula of Concord and the Teaching Ministry
The Place of Theology in the Church
Law and Gospel
Justification and Justice
Christ and Culture: Reflections and Questions
The Significance of Being Human: A Lutheran Perspective
Make Church Politics Ethical!
How to Speak about God in a Pluralistic World
Reason, Relevance, and a Radical Gospel: Hartford and the Future of Protestant Thought
The Importance of Law for Christian Sexual Ethics
Why Recall Luther Today?

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SUPPLEMENT SERIES VOLUME 3
The Quest for Jesus and the Christian Faith
Edited by Frederick J. Gaiser
224 pp. $16.95 (paper)

Contents:

FREDERICK J. GAISER, The Quest for Jesus and the Christian Faith: Introduction
MARY M. KNUTSEN, The "Third Quest" for the Historical Jesus: Introduction and Bibliography
ARLAND J. HULTGREN, The Use of Sources in the Quest for Jesus: What You Use Is What You Get
WALTER F. TAYLOR, JR., Jesus within His Social World: Insights from Archaeology, Sociology, and Cultural Anthropology
DIANE JACOBSON, Jesus as Wisdom in the New Testament
DONALD H. JUEL, The Trial and Death of the Historical Jesus
DAVID L. TIEDE, Jesus and the Manifest Power of God
SARAH HENRICH, What Is the Saving Work of Christ?
PAUL S. BERGE, The Word and Its Witness in John and 1 John: A Literary and Rhetorical Study
DAVID E. FREDRICKSON, Christ's Many Friends: The Presence of Jesus in 2 Corinthians 1?7
CRAIG R. KOESTER, Jesus' Resurrection as Presupposition for the New Testament
JAMES L. BOYCE, The Quest for Jesus and the Church's Proclamation
What Difference Does the Quest for Jesus Make for the Christian Faith? A Panel Discussion

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SUPPLEMENT SERIES VOLUME 4
God, Evil, and Suffering:
Essays in Honor of Paul R. Sponheim
Edited by Terence E. Fretheim and Curtis L. Thompson
232 pp. $16.95 (paper)

Contents:

CURTIS THOMPSON, Situating Paul Sponheim's Theology

Part I: Justice and Justification
JOHN B. COBB, JR., Is God Just?
TERENCE E. FRETHEIM, Divine Judgment and the Warming of the World: An Old Testament Perspective
FREDERICK J. GAISER, "You meant evil against me; but God meant it for good": Thinking Genesis 50:20
PAUL VARO MARTINSON, The Trouble with Human Rights: Confucius and Mission
TED PETERS, Sin, Scapegoating, and Justifying Faith
DANIEL J. SIMUNDSON, The Case of Job: An Experiential Critique of Traditional Theology

Part II: Suffering and the Other
SHARON V. BETCHER, Wisdom to Make the World Go On: On Disability and the Cultural Delegitimation of Suffering

DAVID E. FREDRICKSON, Paul's Sentence of Death (2 Corinthians 1:9)
PHILIP HEFNER, Natural Evil: The Continuing Theological Challenge
ARLAND J. HULTGREN, Suffering Together with Christ: A Study of Romans 8:17
ANN PEDERSON, To Love the Enemy: A Theological Problem
JONATHAN P. STRANDJORD, Suffering, Desire, Temptation, and Ecstatic Apologetics
MARJORIE HEWITT SUCHOCKI, Sin in Feminist and Process Thought

Part III: The Spirit of God and Salvation
LOIS MALCOLM, Søren Kierkegaard's Cure for the Soul
ROLAND MARTINSON, The Changing Face of Pastoral Care
LINDA LEE NELSON, "Your Sins Are Forgiven": Saved by the Life of Christ
ERNEST L. SIMMONS, The Sighs of God: Kenosis, Quantum Theory, and the Spirit
LEE E. SNOOK, Suffering and Evil: The Difference Spirit Makes
CURTIS L. THOMPSON, Potency and Humility: Acknowledging the Power of My Power

KIRSTEN ANN SCRIBNER MEBUST, Paul R. Sponheim: A Selected Bibliography

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SUPPLEMENT SERIES VOLUME 5
"And God Saw That It Was Good":
Essays on Creation and God in Honor of Terence E. Fretheim

Edited by Frederick J. Gaiser and Mark A. Throntveit
190 pp. $16.95 (paper)

Contents:

FREDERICK J. GAISER AND MARK A. THRONTVEIT, Terence E. Fretheim at Seventy 

Part I: Creation
SAMUEL E. BALENTINE, “Ask the animals, and they will teach you”
BRUCE C. BIRCH, Creation and the Moral Development of God in Genesis 1–11
WILLIAM P. BROWN, Joy and the Art of Cosmic Maintenance: An Ecology of Play in Psalm 104
NORMAN HABEL, Playing God or Playing Earth? An Ecological Reading of Genesis 1:26–28
ARLAND J. HULTGREN, Creating Anew: God’s Resolution of a Dilemma according to Paul
DIANE L. JACOBSON, God’s Natural Order: Genesis or Job? 
DENNIS T. OLSON, Loving Enemies as Being Birthed into God’s Creation-Wide Family: A Homiletical Exploration of Matthew 5:38–48 
MARY HINKLE SHORE, Creation, Vocation, and Little Faith in Matthew’s Gospel
MARK A. THRONTVEIT, The So-Called “Ten Commandments” and the Relational, Vocational Decalogue

Part II: God
WALTER BRUEGGEMANN, The God of “All Flesh”
FREDERICK J. GAISER, “I will carry and will save”: The Carrying God of Isaiah 40–66
SARAH S. HENRICH, Seen and Unseen: The Visibility of God in Exodus 25–40
J. GERALD JANZEN, Praying in the Space God Creates for the World
RALPH W. KLEIN, The God of the Chronicler
JAMES W. LIMBURG, What Does Ecclesiastes Say about God?
LOIS MALCOLM, The Crucified Messiah and Divine Suffering in the Old Testament
PATRICK D. MILLER, The Omniscience of God and Human Freedom 
JOHN SANDERS, How Do We Decide What God Is Like?
DANIEL J. SIMUNDSON, What Job Wanted and What God Gave
PAUL R. SPONHEIM,  “The art of power lies precisely in making another free”: God’s Suffering-Action in Relational Transcendence

The Writings of Terence E. Fretheim
Terence E. Fretheim: Curriculum Vitae

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