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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Martin Luther. I — Comfort for the Sick and Dying TO ELECTOR FREDERICK OF SAXONY. September, 1519 The fifty-six-year-old Frederick the Wise of Saxony, for whose protection in the early years of the Reformation Luther had reason to be ...
Martin Luther. I — Comfort for the Sick and Dying TO ELECTOR FREDERICK OF SAXONY. September, 1519 The fifty-six-year-old Frederick the Wise of Saxony, for whose protection in the early years of the Reformation Luther had reason to be ...
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... elector [of Saxony] wrote to Luther to express his sympathy with him in his illness.{126} He knew, he wrote, that Luther was not always responsive to medicine, and by this he suggested diplomatically that he was an impatient patient ...
... elector [of Saxony] wrote to Luther to express his sympathy with him in his illness.{126} He knew, he wrote, that Luther was not always responsive to medicine, and by this he suggested diplomatically that he was an impatient patient ...
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... the Word of God. Christ enlighten and strengthen you in true faith and in love of your neighbor. Your willing servant, Martin Luther. Saint Aegidius' (Giles') Day, 1524. TO ELECTOR JOHN OF SAXONY. May 15, 1525 Elector Frederick.
... the Word of God. Christ enlighten and strengthen you in true faith and in love of your neighbor. Your willing servant, Martin Luther. Saint Aegidius' (Giles') Day, 1524. TO ELECTOR JOHN OF SAXONY. May 15, 1525 Elector Frederick.
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Martin Luther. TO ELECTOR JOHN OF SAXONY. May 15, 1525 Elector Frederick the Wise of Saxony (1486-1525) played a prominent role in the early years of the Reformation as protector of Martin Luther. He was timid in his support, however ...
Martin Luther. TO ELECTOR JOHN OF SAXONY. May 15, 1525 Elector Frederick the Wise of Saxony (1486-1525) played a prominent role in the early years of the Reformation as protector of Martin Luther. He was timid in his support, however ...
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... elector of Saxony and became professor of law in Wittenberg. His first wife, Clara, nee Preusser, died in 1532, and this death was the occasion for the letter of consolation that follows. Subsequently Zoch married a daughter of Jerome ...
... elector of Saxony and became professor of law in Wittenberg. His first wife, Clara, nee Preusser, died in 1532, and this death was the occasion for the letter of consolation that follows. Subsequently Zoch married a daughter of Jerome ...
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