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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... brother in the Lord: grace and peace in Christ. My dear Spalatin: Oral and written reports have come here that you are ill. If this is true, I pray the Lord Jesus that he may restore your health and preserve you longer to the glory of ...
... brother in the Lord: grace and peace in Christ. My dear Spalatin: Oral and written reports have come here that you are ill. If this is true, I pray the Lord Jesus that he may restore your health and preserve you longer to the glory of ...
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... brother James{54} has written me that you are seriously ill. As the weather is bad and the season dangerous, I am very anxious about you, for though God has given you a strong, tough body, yet your age and the inclemency of the weather ...
... brother James{54} has written me that you are seriously ill. As the weather is bad and the season dangerous, I am very anxious about you, for though God has given you a strong, tough body, yet your age and the inclemency of the weather ...
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... brother James, who was living in Mansfeld, near the Reformer's paternal home, Martin Luther received word of the serious illness of his mother. It proved to be a fatal illness, for on June 30, 1531, thirteen months after the death of ...
... brother James, who was living in Mansfeld, near the Reformer's paternal home, Martin Luther received word of the serious illness of his mother. It proved to be a fatal illness, for on June 30, 1531, thirteen months after the death of ...
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Martin Luther. My beloved Mother: I have received my brother James's letter{66} with its account of your illness. It grieves me deeply, especially because I cannot be with you in person, as I should like to be. Yet I shall be with you in ...
Martin Luther. My beloved Mother: I have received my brother James's letter{66} with its account of your illness. It grieves me deeply, especially because I cannot be with you in person, as I should like to be. Yet I shall be with you in ...
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... Brother-in-law: I am truly sorry to learn of your infirmity from your Justus'{79} letter and am even more sorry to learn that you take your infirmity so hard. Are you not, together with us, a friend, member, and confessor of that Man ...
... Brother-in-law: I am truly sorry to learn of your infirmity from your Justus'{79} letter and am even more sorry to learn that you take your infirmity so hard. Are you not, together with us, a friend, member, and confessor of that Man ...
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