Lutheran Slogans: Use and Abuse

A short book of about eighty pages published by the American Lutheran Publicity Bureau in 2011. Jenson takes up the classic Lutheran slogans, among them 'justification by faith', 'sola scriptura' and 'the priesthood of all believers', and argues that they are useful shorthand but become misleading when cut loose from the ideas and practices they once evoked; a First Things review highlighted his point that 'justification by faith' was meant as a rule for preachers rather than a summary of the gospel. It was reviewed in First Things and The Christian Century, the latter in January 2012.