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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... dear 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 ...
... dear 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 ...
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... dear father, John Luther, citizen in the valley of Mansfeld: grace and peace in Christ Jesus, our Lord and Saviour. Amen. Dear Father: My brother James{54} has written me that you are seriously ill. As the weather is bad and the season ...
... dear father, John Luther, citizen in the valley of Mansfeld: grace and peace in Christ Jesus, our Lord and Saviour. Amen. Dear Father: My brother James{54} has written me that you are seriously ill. As the weather is bad and the season ...
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... dear Lord and Saviour be with you so that, God willing, we may see each other, either here or yonder. For our faith is certain, and we doubt not that we shall shortly see each other in the presence of Christ. Our departure from this ...
... dear Lord and Saviour be with you so that, God willing, we may see each other, either here or yonder. For our faith is certain, and we doubt not that we shall shortly see each other in the presence of Christ. Our departure from this ...
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... God's grace, recognizing how slight a suffering it is (even if it be a sickness unto death) compared with the ... Lord Jesus Christ, who did not suffer for himself, as we do, but for us and for our sins. Secondly, dear mother, you ...
... God's grace, recognizing how slight a suffering it is (even if it be a sickness unto death) compared with the ... Lord Jesus Christ, who did not suffer for himself, as we do, but for us and for our sins. Secondly, dear mother, you ...
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Martin Luther. also life, and comfort. My dear Doctor, my dear and kind Brother-in-law: I am truly sorry to learn of ... Lord's.”{81} Yes, indeed, Domini in the genitive and in the nominative—in the genitive (we are the Lord's) because we ...
Martin Luther. also life, and comfort. My dear Doctor, my dear and kind Brother-in-law: I am truly sorry to learn of ... Lord's.”{81} Yes, indeed, Domini in the genitive and in the nominative—in the genitive (we are the Lord's) because we ...
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