The best one-volume reader of Luther's writingsnow revised Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings, a single-volume introduction to Luther's most influential, noted, and important writings in the modern translationsincluding excerpts of his sermons and letterspresents Luther the theologian "steeped in the word of God, speaking to the whole church," even as it takes the reader straight to Luther the man, to his controversial Reformation insights, to his strongest convictions about God and Scripture and the life of the church, and most importantly to his theologya still-exciting encounter with the meaning of Jesus Christ for each age.The third edition includes revised introductions, updated bibliography, index, and the addition of "A Meditation on Christ's Passion" (1519), "Treatise on the Blessed Sacrament" (1519), "Sermon on the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of ChristAgainst the Fanatics" (1526), "Sermon in Castle Pleissenburg" (1539), and "Consolation to Women Whose Pregnancies Have Not Gone Well" (1542), as well as new translations of "A Practical Way to Pray" (1535) and "On the Freedom of a Christian" (1520).

If Only I Had Known... is a collection of meditations and reflections of and by mostly New Testament biblical characters in the form of monologues and soliloquies. The author, the Rev. Dr. William R. Russell, originally presented these soliloquies as special sermons that were enthusiastically received by worshipers. Deeply touching, relevant, and captivating, these sermon soliloquies and monologue meditations cover the full sweep of the nativity, ministry, triumphal entry, passion, death, and resurrection of Christ. Born a Canadian and raised a Presbyterian, Dr. Russell studied philosophy at the University of Toronto and theology at Princeton Seminary. For four decades, he served as pastor of churches large and small in both Canada and the United States.