Johann Gerhard

Gerhard’s commentary speaks to ministers of the Church and the people they serve. The church fathers considered Paul’s two Epistles to Timothy ess...

The central figure of the Christian faith is Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world. In this volume, Gerhard addresses the etymology of Christ's nam...

The Theological Commonplaces series is the first-ever English translation of Johann Gerhard's monumental Loci Theologici. Gerhard was the premier L...

In this commonplace On Good Works, Johann Gerhard explores the proper place of good works in the life of a Christian, emphasizing that good works d...

In On Interpreting Sacred Scripture, Gerhard emphasizes the authority of Scripture as the Word of God; the rule of faith as essential for right int...

In On Justification through Faith, the latest relase in the English translation of Gerhard's Theological Commonplaces, Gerhard defines justificatio...

On Sin and Free Choice consists of three commonplaces. First, 'On Original Sin' addresses the first sin of Adam and Eve (Genesis 3) and the terribl...

The doctrine of the Church was contentious as Lutherans argued for the scriptural catholicity of their churches, which embraced the Reformation ove...

This volume of Gerhard's comprehensive exegetical-systematic theology presents two commonplaces.On the Gospel defines the Gospel carefully as the p...

Gerhard explores the moral Law of God, revealed in Scripture and nature, as well as all other kinds of laws, such as the ceremonies and civil laws ...

This volume, the first part of Johann Gerhard's commonplace On the Ecclesiastical Ministry deals especially with ministers of the church: their nec...

On the Nature of God and on the Trinity, translated by Richard J. Dinda, addresses God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as Gerhard explores the div...