Adolf Schlatter’s ‘Faith’ In the New Testament

Logos is apparently considering undertaking a translation of Adolf Schlatter’s classic ‘Glaube im Neuen Testament‘.  This book has, astonishingly, never been rendered into English (a fact that continues to appall).  So I hope they do.  It’s brilliant.  Even the opening preface is a delight (because Schlatter tells the story of a little old lady who thanked him for his work- it had helped her understand what faith was better than anything else).

Schlatter was an awesome scholar.  Really a polymath.  He’s not read widely enough because of two factors:  biblical scholars in America can scarcely manage to bother with Hebrew and Greek.  Forget about learning German.  And second, Schlatter wrote so much it would take an army of translators working for years to finish his corpus.

So hooray for Logos for at least trying to get a remarkable volume out to a larger public.