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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... Majesty so that by this means I might exhort Your Majesty to continue cheerfully and confidently to further God's holy Word in Hungary, for I received the good news that Your Majesty is inclined to favor the gospel but that the godless ...
... Majesty so that by this means I might exhort Your Majesty to continue cheerfully and confidently to further God's holy Word in Hungary, for I received the good news that Your Majesty is inclined to favor the gospel but that the godless ...
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... Majesty's beloved husband, has been slain, my original intention also had to be altered. If the bishops had given the gospel free course, all the world would now be crying out that this calamity has come upon Hungary because of the ...
... Majesty's beloved husband, has been slain, my original intention also had to be altered. If the bishops had given the gospel free course, all the world would now be crying out that this calamity has come upon Hungary because of the ...
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... Majesty to be left a widow so soon and to be deprived of your dear husband, still much consolation is to be found in the Scriptures, and especially in the psalms, which abundantly point to the dear and gracious Father and Son in whom ...
... Majesty to be left a widow so soon and to be deprived of your dear husband, still much consolation is to be found in the Scriptures, and especially in the psalms, which abundantly point to the dear and gracious Father and Son in whom ...
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... Majesty in his Son Jesus Christ and with his Holy Spirit so that Your Majesty may soon forget this wretchedness or be enabled to bear it bravely. Amen. Your Majesty's obedient servant, Martin Luther. The first of the winter month, 1526 ...
... Majesty in his Son Jesus Christ and with his Holy Spirit so that Your Majesty may soon forget this wretchedness or be enabled to bear it bravely. Amen. Your Majesty's obedient servant, Martin Luther. The first of the winter month, 1526 ...
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