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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... that a diligent reading and contemplation of these images will provide some comfort. Humbly commending myself to Your Lordship, I am Your Lordship's subject, Martin Luther, Doctor. TO GEORGE SPALATIN. July 10, 1527 It is not known.
... that a diligent reading and contemplation of these images will provide some comfort. Humbly commending myself to Your Lordship, I am Your Lordship's subject, Martin Luther, Doctor. TO GEORGE SPALATIN. July 10, 1527 It is not known.
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... doctor of laws, John Rühel was chancellor to Count Albert of Mansfeld. He was related to Luther by marriage and served as sponsor at the baptism of Luther's son Martin in 1531. Luther learned of his illness and of his impatience in his ...
... doctor of laws, John Rühel was chancellor to Count Albert of Mansfeld. He was related to Luther by marriage and served as sponsor at the baptism of Luther's son Martin in 1531. Luther learned of his illness and of his impatience in his ...
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... doctor, behold the good things you possess at his hands rather than what you suffer. The balance is tipped immeasurably in favor of the former. Besides, he is able, if you give him time, to restore your health. To be sure, we are his at ...
... doctor, behold the good things you possess at his hands rather than what you suffer. The balance is tipped immeasurably in favor of the former. Besides, he is able, if you give him time, to restore your health. To be sure, we are his at ...
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... doctor,{83} and admit into your heart the words of your brethren through whom God himself speaks to you above and beyond his daily works, for he says, “Where I am, there shall ye be also.”{84} I shall treat your sons,{85} who are with ...
... doctor,{83} and admit into your heart the words of your brethren through whom God himself speaks to you above and beyond his daily works, for he says, “Where I am, there shall ye be also.”{84} I shall treat your sons,{85} who are with ...
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... Doctor Tuesday, the vigil of Saint Catherine, 1534. TO URBAN RHEGIUS. December 30, 1534 Urban Rhegius, or Rieger (1489-1541), a Roman priest who became an Evangelical clergyman through the influences of humanism, spent the years of his ...
... Doctor Tuesday, the vigil of Saint Catherine, 1534. TO URBAN RHEGIUS. December 30, 1534 Urban Rhegius, or Rieger (1489-1541), a Roman priest who became an Evangelical clergyman through the influences of humanism, spent the years of his ...
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