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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... pastor and shepherd of souls. It is therefore well to remind ourselves that the Reformation began in Germany when Luther became concerned about his own parishioners who believed that if they had purchased letters of indulgence they were ...
... pastor and shepherd of souls. It is therefore well to remind ourselves that the Reformation began in Germany when Luther became concerned about his own parishioners who believed that if they had purchased letters of indulgence they were ...
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... pastor would have to take into account all that he is known to have written and said. I Such an examination of the collected works of Luther makes it clear that his spiritual counsel was not simply the application of external techniques ...
... pastor would have to take into account all that he is known to have written and said. I Such an examination of the collected works of Luther makes it clear that his spiritual counsel was not simply the application of external techniques ...
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... pastor and preacher{61} will point out such things to you in faithful service, and so you will not need what I say at all. Yet I write to ask forgiveness for my bodily absence, which, God knows, causes me heartfelt sorrow. My Katie,{62} ...
... pastor and preacher{61} will point out such things to you in faithful service, and so you will not need what I say at all. Yet I write to ask forgiveness for my bodily absence, which, God knows, causes me heartfelt sorrow. My Katie,{62} ...
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... pastor of the church in Dinkelsbühl: grace and peace in the Lord. My dear Pastor: A brother in the Lord brought me your letter, and with it your question concerning a certain woman who is plagued by the devil. I am compelled to write ...
... pastor of the church in Dinkelsbühl: grace and peace in the Lord. My dear Pastor: A brother in the Lord brought me your letter, and with it your question concerning a certain woman who is plagued by the devil. I am compelled to write ...
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... pastor in Gotha and known as the reformer of Thuringia, had for some time been suffering from a pulmonary infection. By the summer of 1540 he had the symptoms of tuberculosis, and soon afterward he lay down on what he thought was his ...
... pastor in Gotha and known as the reformer of Thuringia, had for some time been suffering from a pulmonary infection. By the summer of 1540 he had the symptoms of tuberculosis, and soon afterward he lay down on what he thought was his ...
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