Luther: Letters of Spiritual CounselPickle Partners Publishing, 2018 M09 3 - 349 pages Martin Luther is often thought of as a world-shaking figure who defied papacy and empire to introduce a reformation in the teaching, worship, organization, and life of the church. Sometimes it is forgotten that he was also a pastor and shepherd of souls. Collected in this volume are Luther’s letters of spiritual counsel, which he offered to his contemporaries in the midst of sickness, death, persecution, imprisonment, famine, and political instability. For Luther, spiritual counsel was about establishing, nurturing, and strengthening faith. Freshly translated from the original German and Latin, these letters shed light on the fascinating relationship between his pastoral counsel and his theology. “Since spiritual direction is not the wholesale application of general principles, but the painstaking working out of spirituality in specific situations, the personal letter is one of its best expressions. Luther knew the holy gospel and the human heart, and the double knowledge is evident on the pages of these letters.”—Eugene H. Peterson, Regent College |
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... Accordingly the sick are admonished to remember and hold fast to what they have learned in church of the Word of God. They need have no fear of death, for in Jesus Christ, God has overcome death. In the case of death (Chapter II) ...
... Accordingly the sick are admonished to remember and hold fast to what they have learned in church of the Word of God. They need have no fear of death, for in Jesus Christ, God has overcome death. In the case of death (Chapter II) ...
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... Accordingly I shall add myself to the number of your comforters. First, dear mother, you are now well-informed about God's grace and know that this sickness of yours is his gracious, fatherly chastisement. It is quite a slight thing in ...
... Accordingly I shall add myself to the number of your comforters. First, dear mother, you are now well-informed about God's grace and know that this sickness of yours is his gracious, fatherly chastisement. It is quite a slight thing in ...
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... Accordingly I shall not deal falsely with you and yours as long as God gives me life. Amen. God willing, Master Philip{86} will shortly have more to say to you in person. Greet all the members of your family for me. Martin Luther ...
... Accordingly I shall not deal falsely with you and yours as long as God gives me life. Amen. God willing, Master Philip{86} will shortly have more to say to you in person. Greet all the members of your family for me. Martin Luther ...
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... Accordingly, since you asked me to write you a letter of consolation, this is my comfort in Christ: Be cheerfully thankful to the Father of all grace, who has called you to his light and the confession of his Son, and who has given you ...
... Accordingly, since you asked me to write you a letter of consolation, this is my comfort in Christ: Be cheerfully thankful to the Father of all grace, who has called you to his light and the confession of his Son, and who has given you ...
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... Accordingly you should proceed as follows: Go to him with the deacon and two or three good men. Confident that you, as pastor of the place, are clothed with the authority of the ministerial office, lay your hands upon him and say ...
... Accordingly you should proceed as follows: Go to him with the deacon and two or three good men. Confident that you, as pastor of the place, are clothed with the authority of the ministerial office, lay your hands upon him and say ...
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