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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... OF SPIRITUAL COUNSEL Edited and Translated by Theodore G. Tappert, D.D., Litt.D. Professor of Church History, The Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania THE LIBRARY OF CHRISTIAN CLASSICS Volume XVIII GENERAL EDITORS JOHN.
... OF SPIRITUAL COUNSEL Edited and Translated by Theodore G. Tappert, D.D., Litt.D. Professor of Church History, The Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania THE LIBRARY OF CHRISTIAN CLASSICS Volume XVIII GENERAL EDITORS JOHN.
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... Church History, Union Theological Seminary, New York HENRY P. VAN DUSEN President, Union Theological Seminary, New York GENERAL EDITORS' PREFACE The Christian Church possesses in its literature.
... Church History, Union Theological Seminary, New York HENRY P. VAN DUSEN President, Union Theological Seminary, New York GENERAL EDITORS' PREFACE The Christian Church possesses in its literature.
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Martin Luther. GENERAL EDITORS' PREFACE The Christian Church possesses in its literature an abundant and incomparable treasure. But it is an inheritance that must be reclaimed by each generation. THE LIBRARY OF CHRISTIAN CLASSICS is ...
Martin Luther. GENERAL EDITORS' PREFACE The Christian Church possesses in its literature an abundant and incomparable treasure. But it is an inheritance that must be reclaimed by each generation. THE LIBRARY OF CHRISTIAN CLASSICS is ...
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... Church Fathers, and some of them have long been out of print. A fresh translation of a work already translated may shed much new light upon its meaning. This is true even of Bible translations despite the work of many experts through ...
... Church Fathers, and some of them have long been out of print. A fresh translation of a work already translated may shed much new light upon its meaning. This is true even of Bible translations despite the work of many experts through ...
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... Church and to leave a lasting impression on Western civilization. It is sometimes forgotten that he was also—and above all else—a pastor and shepherd of souls. It is therefore well to remind ourselves that the Reformation began in ...
... Church and to leave a lasting impression on Western civilization. It is sometimes forgotten that he was also—and above all else—a pastor and shepherd of souls. It is therefore well to remind ourselves that the Reformation began in ...
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