Doctrine Is Life: The Essays of Robert D. Preus on Justification and the Lutheran Confessions Book

Preface     7
Robert Preus and the Purpose of Theological Scholarship     11
Justification by Faith: The Material Principle of Theology     37
The Justification of a Sinner before God as Taught in Later Lutheran Orthodoxy     39
The Vicarious Atonement in John Quenstedt     55
The Doctrine of Justification in the Theology of Classical Lutheran Orthodoxy     79
Perennial Problems in the Doctrine of Justification     97
Luther and the Doctrine of Justification     119
Clergy Mental Health and the Doctrine of Justification     135
Objective Justification     147
Law and Gospel in Early Lutheran Dogmatics     155
The Significance of Luther's Terms Pure Passive     181
The Church: Her Confessions and Fellowship     191
My Confession     193
Confessional Subscription     195
The Confessions and the Mission of the Church     213
The Influence of the Formula of Concord on the Later Lutheran Orthodoxy     237
Can the Lutheran Confessions Have Any Meaning 450 Years Later?     253
Confessional Lutheranism in Today's World     259
To Join or Not to Join     275
Fellowship Reconsidered     311
The Basis for Concord     337
A Word from His Friends     357
Commemoration Sermon for Dr. Robert D. Preus     359
Robert Preus: Historian of Theology     363
The "Realist Principle" of Theology     367
Solus Christus     375