This site is where I merge my love of computer programming, particularly Web programming, with my love of Lutheran history and theology. It's a collection of various Web resources I've created for myself as I've studied Lutheranism that others who are interested in Lutheranism may also find useful.
An Outline of Lutheran Theology. The Table of Contents of Christian Dogmatics, an excellent work of Lutheran theology, that also contains links to my (very incomplete) excerpts from it. It's by Dr. Francis Pieper, who was not only president of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod in the early twentieth century but also a genuine Lutheran theologian. I include it here because it gives a good idea of the scope and content of Lutheran theology.
Lutheran Timeline (post-Luther). I found as I read Pieper that I had to understand the history of Lutheran doctrine up to his time if I wanted to understand fully what he was saying. I began this as random notes on the names of people, movements, ideas, and events in the history of Lutheran doctrine that I kept encountering as I read him, and it has slowly developed into this.
An Index to the Works of Martin Luther. This is an index to the works of Martin Luther as they've been published in three different editions, two German and one English. I first got the idea of programming a sortable cross-reference between the various editions of Luther's works while reading Pieper's Dogmatics and realizing all the references given there to Luther's works were to an old German edition published by Concordia Publishing House from 1885 to 1910. I wanted to know where I could find those references in the American English edition to which I actually have access. This index is what I eventually produced to enable me to do that, put together from from several online and printed reference works. It's stored in a MySQL database and presented with XHTML, Javascript, and PHP.
Walther's Theses on Law and Gospel. One of the key insights of Luther and of subsequent Lutheran teachers is that the Bible makes an important distinction between Law and Gospel that is absolutely critical to understand if one wants to live securely in Christian faith. Here are 25 theses formulated by Dr. C.F.W. Walther, who was a pastor, theologian, founder, and first president of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, that explain that distinction. They are taken from his book The Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel, which goes into detail regarding each thesis.
U.S. Lutheran Church Bodies. A reference list of current and past Lutheran church bodies in the United States and their relation to one another.
The Books of the New Testament. This is a reference table with sortable columns that I wrote as an exercise in HTML, CSS, and Javascript. It doesn't have anything unique to Lutheranism in it except that the dates I used are from a standard Lutheran textbook on the New Testament, Dr. Martin Franzmann's The Word of the Lord Grows.
The XML KJV Bible. This is again not a uniquely Lutheran resource, but it may be of interest or use to some. I converted a text copy of the KJV into XML files and have made a Web interface for it using HTML, CSS, and Javascript.