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Andreae, Johann Valentin. Christianopolis: An Ideal State of the Seventeenth Century. Trans. from the Latin by Felix Emil Held. New York: Oxford University Press, 1916. First published in 1619.

Arndt, Johann. True Christianity. Trans. and with an Introduction by Peter Erb. New York: Paulist Press, 1979. 1606 book on the practice of the Christian life.

Blumhardt, Johann Christoph, and Christoph Blumhardt. Thy Kingdom Come: A Blumhardt Reader, ed. Vernard Eller. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1980. Sampling of thought of father (d. 1880) and son (d. 1919).

Chemnitz, Martin. Loci Theologici, II. Trans. from the German by J.A.O. Preus. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1989. Late sixteenth century systematic work with loci on the divine law, justification, good works, and the difference between mortal and venial sin.

Dorner, Isaak August. System of Christian Ethics. New York: Scribner & Welford, 1887.

Erb, Peter C., ed. Pietists: Selected Writings. New York: Paulist Press, 1983. Selections from Philipp Jakob Spener, August Hermann Francke, Gottfried Arnold, Johann Albrecht Bengel, and Friedrich Christoph Oetinger.

Grundtvig, N.F.S. Selected Writings of N.F.S. Grundtvig, ed. and with an Introduction by Johannes Knudsen, 49-82. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1976. Nineteenth century Danish theologian on the Christian life.

Harless, Gottlieb Christoph Adolph von. System of Christian Ethics. 6th ed., 1868. Trans. from the German by A. W. Morrison and rev. by William Findlay. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1868.

Kierkegaard, S. Either/Or. 2 vols. Ed. and trans. from the Danish with an Introduction and notes by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. Nineteenth century Danish theologian.

_______. Fear and Trembling. In Fear and Trembling and Repetition, ed. and trans. from the Danish with an Introduction and notes by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong, 1-123. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.

_______. Practice in Christianity. Ed. and trans. from the Danish with an Introduction and notes by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.

_______. Works of Love. Ed. and trans. from the Danish with an Introduction and notes by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Princeton: Princeton University Press,1995.

Kolb, Robert. Andreae and the Formula of Concord: Six Sermons on the Way to Lutheran Unity, 61-120. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1977. Jakob Andreae's 1573 sermons, including ones on free will, good works, and the place of the law in the Christian life.

Luthardt, Christoph Ernst. Apologetic Lectures on the Moral Truths of Christianity. Trans. from the German by Sophia Taylor. 4th Ed. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1889.

_______. History of Christian Ethics: Before the Reformation, 1. Trans. from the German by W. Hastie. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1889.

Mann, W. J. General Principles of Christian Ethics: The First Part of the System of Christian Ethics by Chr. Fr. Schmid. Abridged by Mann. Philadelphia: The Lutheran Bookstore, 1872.

Martensen, Hans Lassen. Christian Ethics. 3 vols. First volume trans. from the Danish by C. Spence. Second volume trans. from the author's German by William Affleck. Third volume trans. from the author's German by Sophia Taylor. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1873-1899. Volume one is called "General" (the highest good, virtue, and law), two "Individual Ethics," and three "Social Ethics."

Ritschl, Albrecht. Instruction in the Christian Religion. In The Theology of Albrecht Ritschl, by Albert Temple Swing, 169-286. Trans. from the German by Swing. New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1901. First published in 1875.

Sartorius, Ernst Wilhelm Christian. The Doctrine of Divine Love, or, Outlines of the Moral Theology of the Evangelical Church. Trans. from the German by Sophia Taylor. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1884. First published in 1846-50.

Schmucker, S. S. Elements of Popular Theology, 164-82, 271-87. New York: Leavitt,

Lord & Co., 1834. On "the great moral change" and "civil governments." Schmucker continued to revise the book through several editions.

Spener, Philip Jacob. Pia Desideria. Trans. from the German, ed., and with an Introduction by Theodore Tappert. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1964. Abridged version of 1675 book calling for spiritual and moral reform in the church.

Stuckenberg, John H. W. The Age and the Church: Being a Study of the Age, and of the Adaptation of the Church to Its Needs. Hartford, Conn.: Student Publishing, 1893.

_______. Christian Sociology. New York: I.K. Funk, 1880.

_______. The Social Problem. York, Pa: Social Problems Publishing, 1897.

Weidner, Revere Franklin. A System of Christian Ethics: Based on Martensen and Harless. New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1891.

Wuttke, Adolf. Christian Ethics. 2 vols. Trans. from the 1864-5 German ed. by John P. Lacroix. New York: Nelson & Phillips, 1874. The first volume is a history of ethics and the second a constructive statement of "pure ethics."