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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... George Spalatin (14841545), who played the important role of mediator between the prince and the Reformer, suggested that Luther write something for the comfort of the sick man. Within a month the devotional booklet The Fourteen of ...
... George Spalatin (14841545), who played the important role of mediator between the prince and the Reformer, suggested that Luther write something for the comfort of the sick man. Within a month the devotional booklet The Fourteen of ...
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... George Spalatin, that I prepare some kind of spiritual consolation and present it to Your Lordship, to whom such a service, he said, would be very acceptable. I.
... George Spalatin, that I prepare some kind of spiritual consolation and present it to Your Lordship, to whom such a service, he said, would be very acceptable. I.
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... Lordship 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.
... Lordship 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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Martin Luther. TO GEORGE SPALATIN. July 10, 1527 It is not known what the nature of George Spalatin's illness, to which Luther referred in this letter, was, but his illness may have come from an unhappy conflict in which he was engaged ...
Martin Luther. TO GEORGE SPALATIN. July 10, 1527 It is not known what the nature of George Spalatin's illness, to which Luther referred in this letter, was, but his illness may have come from an unhappy conflict in which he was engaged ...
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