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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Martin Luther. contemporaries is not limited by any means to the letters he wrote to specific persons who sought his help or to the conversations he had with particular individuals who had burdened consciences. The pastoral concern of ...
Martin Luther. contemporaries is not limited by any means to the letters he wrote to specific persons who sought his help or to the conversations he had with particular individuals who had burdened consciences. The pastoral concern of ...
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Martin Luther. placing his confidence at once in the promise, and the Giver in God's Word and in God himself, who addresses man in his Word. “God gives you nothing on account of your worthiness,” Luther wrote. “Nor does he establish his ...
Martin Luther. placing his confidence at once in the promise, and the Giver in God's Word and in God himself, who addresses man in his Word. “God gives you nothing on account of your worthiness,” Luther wrote. “Nor does he establish his ...
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Martin Luther. addressed to the surviving mourners. Grief is natural and ... Luther's ministry revolved about the Word of God and faith. III Luther was called ... wrote Luther, “that the whole world is full of shameful works of unchastity ...
Martin Luther. addressed to the surviving mourners. Grief is natural and ... Luther's ministry revolved about the Word of God and faith. III Luther was called ... wrote Luther, “that the whole world is full of shameful works of unchastity ...
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Martin Luther. and drunkenness, lying late abed, loafing, and being without work.” It may also be desirable to avoid “soft beds and clothes,” excessive adornment, and intimate association with members of the opposite sex. Luther ... wrote, “ ...
Martin Luther. and drunkenness, lying late abed, loafing, and being without work.” It may also be desirable to avoid “soft beds and clothes,” excessive adornment, and intimate association with members of the opposite sex. Luther ... wrote, “ ...
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... Luther have come down to us, and we know from allusions elsewhere that he wrote many more. As a rule these letters were written by hand rather than dictated, and they were written in Latin when addressed to the learned and in German ...
... Luther have come down to us, and we know from allusions elsewhere that he wrote many more. As a rule these letters were written by hand rather than dictated, and they were written in Latin when addressed to the learned and in German ...
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