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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... confession and pronounce absolution.{15} Moreover, help and guidance were always afforded in the context of the Church, in the fellowship of all believers. This listing of salient features of Luther's theology can, of course, make no ...
... confession and pronounce absolution.{15} Moreover, help and guidance were always afforded in the context of the Church, in the fellowship of all believers. This listing of salient features of Luther's theology can, of course, make no ...
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... confessed, “how one should act under temptation, namely, when anyone is afflicted with sadness, despair, or other sorrow of heart or has a worm gnawing at his conscience.”{28} Here, too, some external remedies were first proposed. Avoid ...
... confessed, “how one should act under temptation, namely, when anyone is afflicted with sadness, despair, or other sorrow of heart or has a worm gnawing at his conscience.”{28} Here, too, some external remedies were first proposed. Avoid ...
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... confession and testimony of his grace? Dear doctor, behold the good things you possess at his hands rather than what you suffer. The balance is tipped immeasurably in favor of the former. Besides, he is able, if you give him time, to ...
... confession and testimony of his grace? Dear doctor, behold the good things you possess at his hands rather than what you suffer. The balance is tipped immeasurably in favor of the former. Besides, he is able, if you give him time, to ...
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... confession of his Son, and who has given you enough of his abundant grace to oppose the enemy of his Son (that is, his designs)—unless it be that Cochlaeus, {96} Vicelius,{97} or Albert in Halle{98} please you more than, or at least as ...
... confession of his Son, and who has given you enough of his abundant grace to oppose the enemy of his Son (that is, his designs)—unless it be that Cochlaeus, {96} Vicelius,{97} or Albert in Halle{98} please you more than, or at least as ...
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... confession of faith. How often the devil breaks arms, legs, backs, and all members! He can be master of the body and its members against our will. You ought therefore to be content with God's will and number yourself among those of whom ...
... confession of faith. How often the devil breaks arms, legs, backs, and all members! He can be master of the body and its members against our will. You ought therefore to be content with God's will and number yourself among those of whom ...
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