"Wisdom from the past is the tonic that this little book offers to our Covid-weary society. What Luther's treatise from the sixteenth century lacks in scientific knowledge, it more than makes up for in pragmatic advice for ordering a disordered situation. Kudos to Anna Marie Johnson for bringing this gem to light at this time." --Rev. Dr. Gordon L. Isaac, Berkshire Professor of Church History and Advent Christian Studies at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary "Put this book into any pocket! Luther is not contemporaneous to us, as the introduction and notes by outstanding expert Anna Marie Johnson show excellently. But his wisdom helps to put a pandemic in its theological place.

In respect for God's power, love binds us to our neighbors, who need our hygienic precaution as well as pastoral and health care. Luther guides us to find a prudent way through a pandemic--in the Middle Ages, in our time, and in the time to come." --Dr. Volker Leppin, Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology, Yale Divinity School "Even as our Covid pandemic persists, our need for wisdom in how to deal with it in Christian faith and love only grows. Anna Marie Johnson is to be commended for providing such wisdom. This edition of Luther's ever-timely and ever-poignant 'Whether One May Flee from a Deadly Plague' is a gift from the Reformation past to the present." --Dr. Ronald K.

Rittgers, chair in Lutheran studies and professor of the history of Christianity, Duke Divinity School "Reading Luther has never been more applicable. With five hundred years of distance, he gives timeless advice about handling epidemics with 'love of neighbor as guiding principle.' A popular and widespread pamphlet in its own time, which ought to be read again today. The edition is carefully introduced and annotated by Anna Marie Johnson." --Dr. Anna Vind, associate professor, Section of Church History, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen.