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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... Evangelical faith, and in the following letter of consolation her son makes comparisons between the Catholic and the Reformation teaching about Christ which must have been especially meaningful to her. The major theme of the tender ...
... Evangelical faith, and in the following letter of consolation her son makes comparisons between the Catholic and the Reformation teaching about Christ which must have been especially meaningful to her. The major theme of the tender ...
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... Evangelical clergyman through the influences of humanism, spent the years of his early public ministry in and near Augsburg. In 1531 he was made superintendent (bishop) in Lüneburg and from there extended his activity to Hanover. The ...
... Evangelical clergyman through the influences of humanism, spent the years of his early public ministry in and near Augsburg. In 1531 he was made superintendent (bishop) in Lüneburg and from there extended his activity to Hanover. The ...
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... position as cathedral canon to embrace the teaching of the Reformation. In 1533 he went to the imperial free city of Dinkelsbühl, in Franconia, as an Evangelical clergyman and quickly won the confidence of his parishioners.
... position as cathedral canon to embrace the teaching of the Reformation. In 1533 he went to the imperial free city of Dinkelsbühl, in Franconia, as an Evangelical clergyman and quickly won the confidence of his parishioners.
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Martin Luther. Evangelical clergyman and quickly won the confidence of his parishioners. Among them was a woman who was believed to be possessed by the devil. No particulars ... Evangelical clergyman and quickly won the confidence of his ...
Martin Luther. Evangelical clergyman and quickly won the confidence of his parishioners. Among them was a woman who was believed to be possessed by the devil. No particulars ... Evangelical clergyman and quickly won the confidence of his ...
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... serving for ten years as dean of the theological faculty in Wittenberg, Justus Jonas (1493-1555) was active in the visitation and reorganization of churches. In 1541 he introduced Evangelical preaching in Halle, and while there he had a.
... serving for ten years as dean of the theological faculty in Wittenberg, Justus Jonas (1493-1555) was active in the visitation and reorganization of churches. In 1541 he introduced Evangelical preaching in Halle, and while there he had a.
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