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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... consciences. The pastoral concern of Luther is prominently revealed in his sermons.{3} It emerges again and again in long excursuses in his lectures and commentaries on books of the Bible.{4} It was the immediate occasion for the ...
... consciences. The pastoral concern of Luther is prominently revealed in his sermons.{3} It emerges again and again in long excursuses in his lectures and commentaries on books of the Bible.{4} It was the immediate occasion for the ...
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... conscience.”{28} Here, too, some external remedies were first proposed. Avoid solitude, he advised as he pointed out that Satan seduced Eve in paradise when she was alone. The solitude of monks and nuns was an invention of the devil ...
... conscience.”{28} Here, too, some external remedies were first proposed. Avoid solitude, he advised as he pointed out that Satan seduced Eve in paradise when she was alone. The solitude of monks and nuns was an invention of the devil ...
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... conscience, doctrine, and practice. Is it permissible to baptize a stillborn child? Is Baptism valid when administered without water, or when administered with warm water? Is it a sin to receive Holy Communion under the form of bread ...
... conscience, doctrine, and practice. Is it permissible to baptize a stillborn child? Is Baptism valid when administered without water, or when administered with warm water? Is it a sin to receive Holy Communion under the form of bread ...
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... conscience so that you may learn in your own experience what is that power of the Word and of faith which is proved in these agonies. You have not yet felt the thorn in the flesh and the buffeting of Satan's messenger.{177} What you ...
... conscience so that you may learn in your own experience what is that power of the Word and of faith which is proved in these agonies. You have not yet felt the thorn in the flesh and the buffeting of Satan's messenger.{177} What you ...
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... conscience. These things are in and of themselves such a great treasure that they deservedly surpass all the other ... conscience, which is death itself and hell. Since, therefore, you have a good conscience, why should you grieve so ...
... conscience. These things are in and of themselves such a great treasure that they deservedly surpass all the other ... conscience, which is death itself and hell. Since, therefore, you have a good conscience, why should you grieve so ...
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