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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... Spirit tells him of a certainty how he shall avoid evil thoughts and everything that is repugnant to chastity.”{25} More than for such physical temptations, however, Luther was consulted in cases that involved what he called spiritual ...
... Spirit tells him of a certainty how he shall avoid evil thoughts and everything that is repugnant to chastity.”{25} More than for such physical temptations, however, Luther was consulted in cases that involved what he called spiritual ...
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... Spirit, so that you may receive with joy and thanksgiving the blessed teaching of his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, to which doctrine you have now been called and to which you have come out of the former terrible darkness and error; and I ...
... Spirit, so that you may receive with joy and thanksgiving the blessed teaching of his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, to which doctrine you have now been called and to which you have come out of the former terrible darkness and error; and I ...
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... Spirit, and has prepared and accomplished everything most surely, so that you need not care or fear any more, but only keep your heart strong and reliant on his Word and faith. If you do that, let him care for the rest. He will see to ...
... Spirit, and has prepared and accomplished everything most surely, so that you need not care or fear any more, but only keep your heart strong and reliant on his Word and faith. If you do that, let him care for the rest. He will see to ...
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... spirit. I trust that you have long since been abundantly instructed without my help, that (God be praised) you have taken God's comforting Word into your heart, and that you have been adequately provided with preachers and comforters ...
... spirit. I trust that you have long since been abundantly instructed without my help, that (God be praised) you have taken God's comforting Word into your heart, and that you have been adequately provided with preachers and comforters ...
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... Spirit, a firm, joyful, and thankful faith to overcome this and all other trouble. May you taste and experience that what he himself says is true: “Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” Herewith I commit your body and soul to ...
... Spirit, a firm, joyful, and thankful faith to overcome this and all other trouble. May you taste and experience that what he himself says is true: “Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” Herewith I commit your body and soul to ...
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