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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... gospel) is the means by which God comes to man with his offer of forgiveness and life. Because it is a promise, it can be received only in faith—not intellectual assent to doctrine, but personal trust in and commitment to God in Christ ...
... gospel) is the means by which God comes to man with his offer of forgiveness and life. Because it is a promise, it can be received only in faith—not intellectual assent to doctrine, but personal trust in and commitment to God in Christ ...
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... gospel) occupies a central place in it. The aim is not to get people to do certain things—fasting, going on a pilgrimage, becoming a monk, doing “good works,” even receiving the Sacrament—so much as it is to get people to have faith and ...
... gospel) occupies a central place in it. The aim is not to get people to do certain things—fasting, going on a pilgrimage, becoming a monk, doing “good works,” even receiving the Sacrament—so much as it is to get people to have faith and ...
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... gospel, and in it consider Christ's sufferings....In this work a good, strong faith is a great help....For he who so lives that he looks to God for all grace takes pleasure in spiritual purity; therefore he can so much more easily ...
... gospel, and in it consider Christ's sufferings....In this work a good, strong faith is a great help....For he who so lives that he looks to God for all grace takes pleasure in spiritual purity; therefore he can so much more easily ...
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... gospel and in terms of the immediate situation. V Within a few years of Luther's death the first collection of his letters of spiritual counsel was gathered and published, and almost every generation since then saw the appearance of at ...
... gospel and in terms of the immediate situation. V Within a few years of Luther's death the first collection of his letters of spiritual counsel was gathered and published, and almost every generation since then saw the appearance of at ...
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... Gospel when he says, “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”{44} Although it is our duty to visit and comfort in this fashion all those who are afflicted with ill-health, we are ...
... Gospel when he says, “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”{44} Although it is our duty to visit and comfort in this fashion all those who are afflicted with ill-health, we are ...
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