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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... God's keeping. Amen. In haste, The vigil of Saint Luke, 1533. Martin Luther. TO PRINCE JOACHIM OF ANHALT. May 23, 1534 Nicholas Hausmann, who had been warmly recommended by Luther to the prince of Anhalt two years before, was.
... God's keeping. Amen. In haste, The vigil of Saint Luke, 1533. Martin Luther. TO PRINCE JOACHIM OF ANHALT. May 23, 1534 Nicholas Hausmann, who had been warmly recommended by Luther to the prince of Anhalt two years before, was.
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... Hausmann informed Luther that his prince was afflicted with a fever and that his illness was aggravated by morbid depression. In counseling the prince, Luther gave clear expression to the quality of his own piety, which was free of the ...
... Hausmann informed Luther that his prince was afflicted with a fever and that his illness was aggravated by morbid depression. In counseling the prince, Luther gave clear expression to the quality of his own piety, which was free of the ...
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... Hausmann and many others near at hand. Be merry with them; for gladness and good cheer, when decent and proper, are the best medicine for a young person—indeed, for all people. I myself, who have spent a good part of my life in sorrow ...
... Hausmann and many others near at hand. Be merry with them; for gladness and good cheer, when decent and proper, are the best medicine for a young person—indeed, for all people. I myself, who have spent a good part of my life in sorrow ...
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