Luther 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.

Description	Domain	Format
Walch Edition 2	backtoluther	txt, pdf etc
63 of 82 volums online	annas-archive.org	html
Sermons, Commentary & other Works	godrules.net	html

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
I	Interpretation of the First Book of Moses (Genesis). First part.
II	Interpretation of the First Book of Moses. Second part.
III	Sermons on the first book of Moses and interpretations on the following biblical books up to the Psalms (excl.).
IV	Interpretation of the Psalms
V	Interpretations on the Psalms (continued), Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon.
VI	Interpretations on the major and some of the minor prophets, namely Hosea, Joel and Amos.
VII	Interpretation on the evangelists Matthew, Luke and John, up to the sixth chapter of John (incl.).
VIII	Interpretations 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.
IX	Interpretation of the New Testament (Conclusion.) Luther's great interpretation of the Epistle to the Galatians and the other exegetical writings.
X	Catechetical writings and sermons.
XI	Church Postils gospel sermons
XII	Church Postils epistle-sermons besides mixed sermons
XIIIa	House Postils part 1, Luther sermons for one year, compiled by Veit Dietrich
XIIIb	House Postils part 2, Luther sermons for one year, compiled by Georg Rörer
XIV	Forewords, 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.
XV	Reformation Writings. First part. Documents pertaining to the history of the Reformation. Against the Papists. From the years 1517 to 1524.
XVI	Reformation Writings. First part. Documents pertaining to the history of the Reformation. Against the Papists. (Continuation.) From the years 1525 to 1537.
XVII	Reformation 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.
XVIII	Reformation Writings. Second part. Dogmatic-polemical writings against the papists.
XIX	Reformation Writings. Second part. Dogmatic-polemical writings against the papists.
XX	Reformation Writings. Second part. Dogmatic-polemical writings. B. Against the Sacramentarians and other fanatics, as well as against the Jews and Turks.
XXIa	Dr. 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.
XXIb	Dr. 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.
XXII	Colloquia 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.
XXIII	Main 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:

HathiTrust's publication of the German version,
Google Book's version of this work in German,
archive.org's publications of this work, with txt/pdf format etc.²
Der Lutheraner, and
Links to English translation of Lehre und Wehre.

Editions other than Walch

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

Weimar Edition (WA)
Erlangen Edition (E)

HathiTrust Search Engine

Description	Domain	Format
Search for Luther on hathitrust.org	hathitrust.org	html etc.
Select works of Martin Luther^*	hathitrust.org	download etc.

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

Internet Archive

Luther's works	Domain	Format
- With intro and notes in 5 volumes	archive.org	pdf, txt etc.

Project Gutenberg

Description	Domain	Format
Text books sorted by popularity	gutenberg.org	html/txt etc.
20 books - table-overview	gutenberg.org	html/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

Description	Audio	Text
30 epistle sermons	archive.org	Easter to Pentecost
79 episodes/ audiobooks	www.podbean.com^*	House Postil Ohio, 1884
134 audio-files	www.sermonaudio.com	Gutenberg.org etc.
Select works (55-files)	librivox.org	hathitrust.org etc.

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

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. ↩
Maybe there also will come an overview of archive.org's publications if I get time to make it. ↩

Christian Dogmatics

Christian Dogmatics is used to teach Lutheran pastors and priests the christian dogmatics.