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Luther Writings

This is the best lutheran sites on net with overview of lutheran writings.

Luther's Works (Walch Edition 2) has in the end of 2024 been published on github and vercel. On the bottom of this page there is an overview of the content on Luther's Works.

In the table below you can see an overview of Luther's writings that are sources for this largest app from LutherApp:

Overview all Luther's writings

Here is the three best web sites with overview of all Luther's writings.

DescriptionDomainFormat
Walch Edition 2backtoluthertxt, pdf etc
63 of 82 volums onlineannas-archive.orghtml
Sermons, Commentary & other Worksgodrules.nethtml

Walch Edition 2

In markdown and html format

Hover over the description to see the original title in Deutsch, or click (on the description) to open the volume in LutherApp.1

Click on the numbers to open the volume on archive.org.

No.Title
IInterpretation of the First Book of Moses (Genesis). First part.
IIInterpretation of the First Book of Moses. Second part.
IIISermons on the first book of Moses and interpretations on the following biblical books up to the Psalms (excl.).
IVInterpretation of the Psalms
VInterpretations on the Psalms (continued), Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon.
VIInterpretations on the major and some of the minor prophets, namely Hosea, Joel and Amos.
VIIInterpretation on the evangelists Matthew, Luke and John, up to the sixth chapter of John (incl.).
VIIIInterpretations of the Evangelist St. John, chapters 7-20, the 15th and 16th chapters of the Acts of the Apostles, and the 7th and 15th chapters of the First Epistle to the Corinthians. Luther's shorter interpretation of the Epistle to the Galatians.
IXInterpretation of the New Testament (Conclusion.) Luther's great interpretation of the Epistle to the Galatians and the other exegetical writings.
XCatechetical writings and sermons.
XIChurch Postils gospel sermons
XIIChurch Postils epistle-sermons besides mixed sermons
XIIIaHouse Postils part 1, Luther sermons for one year, compiled by Veit Dietrich
XIIIbHouse Postils part 2, Luther sermons for one year, compiled by Georg Rörer
XIVForewords, historical and philological writings. (The "Passional" with illustrations.) As a supplement to the sixth volume: Interpretation of the Old Testament. (Conclusion.) Interpretations on the prophets Obadiah to Malachi.
XVReformation Writings. First part. Documents pertaining to the history of the Reformation. Against the Papists. From the years 1517 to 1524.
XVIReformation Writings. First part. Documents pertaining to the history of the Reformation. Against the Papists. (Continuation.) From the years 1525 to 1537.
XVIIReformation Writings. First part. Documents pertaining to the history of the Reformation. Against the Papists. (Conclusion.) From the years 1538 to 1546. A. Against the Reformed.
XVIIIReformation Writings. Second part. Dogmatic-polemical writings against the papists.
XIXReformation Writings. Second part. Dogmatic-polemical writings against the papists.
XXReformation Writings. Second part. Dogmatic-polemical writings. B. Against the Sacramentarians and other fanatics, as well as against the Jews and Turks.
XXIaDr. Martin Luther's Letters together with the most important letters addressed to him and some other strikingly interesting documents. Letters from the year 1507 to 1532 incl.
XXIbDr. Martin Luther's Letters together with the most important letters addressed to him and some other strikingly interesting documents. Letters from the year 1533 to 1546. Supplement. Supplement to the letters from April 1531 to July 1536.
XXIIColloquia or Table Talks. For the first time corrected and renewed by translating the two main sources of the Table Talks from the Latin originals, namely the diary of Dr. Conrad Cordatus about Dr. M. Luther in 1537 and the diary of M. Anton Lauterbach from the year 1538.
XXIIIMain subject indexes, the indexes of sayings, corrections and addenda to all volumes of the St. Louis edition of Luther's works.

Back to Luther

Where to find more information about Walch Edition 2?

backtoluther.blogspot.com already have an very good table overview with links to:

Editions other than Walch

There are some other editions (in German) besides the Walch Edition:

Read more about this topic here.

HathiTrust Search Engine

DescriptionDomainFormat
Search for Luther on hathitrust.orghathitrust.orghtml etc.
Select works of Martin Luther*hathitrust.orgdownload etc.

* 5 volumes (by Henry P. Cole), where vol 1 is recorded and published on LibriVox (in mp3 format).

Internet Archive

Luther's worksDomainFormat
- With intro and notes in 5 volumesarchive.orgpdf, txt etc.

Project Gutenberg

DescriptionDomainFormat
Text books sorted by popularitygutenberg.orghtml/txt etc.
20 books - table-overviewgutenberg.orghtml/txt etc.

Epistle's in mp3

On Gutenberg you find epistle texts from Epiphany to Pentecoste. These sermons is recorded and published on LibriVox. Translation is by Lenker, John Nicholas (1858-1929).

See my post on Facebook for more info about this, or read the section below about Audio Books.

Audio Books

DescriptionAudioText
30 epistle sermonsarchive.orgEaster to Pentecost
79 episodes/ audiobookswww.podbean.com*House Postil Ohio, 1884
134 audio-fileswww.sermonaudio.comGutenberg.org etc.
Select works (55-files)librivox.orghathitrust.org etc.

* The Gospel Sermons from Luther's House Postil, for the entire church year, is read by pastor Wolfmueller.

Footnotes

  1. The work with luthers-works is in progress and will take a while to finish. The reason for this early "step one" publishing is that I'm using it for searching after text. ↩
  2. Maybe there also will come an overview of archive.org's publications if I get time to make it. ↩

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