Abstract

The article “Lutheran hermeneutics today. Reading the hermeneutic heritage of the Reformation in the reflection of the Lutheran World Federation” presents those elements of the Reformation’s hermeneutics shaped by Martin Luther which are raised in contemporary debate within Lutheranism as significant for present-day Lutheran hermeneutics. Th e analysis presented here refers to the LWF’s study programme dedicated to hermeneutics based on the example of the interpretation of the Gospel of John, the Book of Psalms, the Gospel of Matthew and Paul’s Letters, which was realised between 2011-2015. It also refers to the materials prepared for the jubilee of 500 years of the Reformation in 2017 and the study document “In the beginning was the Word” (Jn 1:1): Th e Bible in the Life of the Lutheran Communion” from 2016.