Martin Luthers Christology And Ethics

Author : Dietmar Lage
Publisher : Lewiston, N.Y. ; Queenston, Ont. : E. Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martin Luther's Christology and Ethics written by Dietmar Lage and published by Lewiston, N.Y. ; Queenston, Ont. : E. Mellen Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study traces a dominant motif that has often been overlooked within the works of Martin Luther, the imitatio Christi, in relation to Luther's Christ-mysticism and conformitas Christi.

Author : William Henry Lazareth
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451420227
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christians in Society written by William Henry Lazareth and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This user-friendly, informative historical theology also challenges contemporary Christians at affirm common biblical ground for theological ethics and to facilitate more public social witness."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Oswald Bayer
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802827993
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martin Luther's Theology written by Oswald Bayer and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-03 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years of in-depth research on Martin Luther's theology has left Oswald Bayer uniquely qualified to present this comprehensive study. He does so with clarity and care, simply enough for nontheologians to access. This remarkable book offers the basics of Luther's understanding of theology, discussing his response to the philosophy of science tradition, the formula by which he studied theology, and the basic philosophy that informed him. Bayer then takes Luther's stance on Christian dogmatics and ethics and applies it to our own theological understanding in the modern age. With such a complete Lutheran dogmatic concept -- the first of its kind offered -- the stunning inner consistency of Luther's theology and its ease of application to contemporary studies become unmistakably clear. Martin Luther's Theology is a valuable tool for students and teachers of theology and for those looking for a guide into the mind and heart of Luther -- a theologian for today.

Author : Timothy J. Wengert
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 150642712X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harvesting Martin Luthers Reflections on Theology, Ethics, and the Church written by Timothy J. Wengert and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-02-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As profound as Martin Luther's ideas are, this giant of church history was concerned above all with practical instruction for daily Christian living. Harvesting Martin Luther's Reflections highlights this concern of Luther, mining his thought in key areas of doctrine, ethics, and church practice. Gathering noteworthy contributions by well-known Luther scholars from Europe and the Americas, this book ranges broadly over theological questions about baptism and righteousness, ethical issues like poverty and greed, and pastoral concerns like worship and spirituality. There are even rare discussions of Luther's perspective on marriage and on Islam. As a result, Harvesting Martin Luther's Reflections is both a state-of-the-art discussion of Lutheran themes and an excellent introduction for newcomers to Luther's work.

Author : Michael Richard Laffin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567669912
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Promise of Martin Luther's Political Theology written by Michael Richard Laffin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Laffin demonstrates the promise of Martin Luther's thought for contemporary political theology by showing how Luther has been over-determined in standard genealogies of modernity which frequently deafen us to his unique contribution. Laffin argues that contemporary theologians have typically followed a narrative derived from the work of a previous generation of political historians and philosophers, which tend to screen out or distort the Reformers' contribution to political theory. Common to these narratives are charges against Luther for his perceived univocal and nominal ontology resulting in a privatized and spiritualized Christianity, thus falsely dividing the world into autonomous spheres. Additionally, the narratives claim that Luther follows in the wake of voluntarism, leading to an insistence on human passivity that leaves no room for pagan virtue. Thus, politics is reduced to an authoritarian imposition of order. In contrast to the dominant narratives of political modernity, Laffin re-examines these narratives by focusing on the political significance of areas in Luther's corpus often neglected in contemporary accounts of his political thought, especially his commentaries on Scripture and writings on the sacraments. Attention to these writings brings forth the crucial themes of the two ecclesiae and the three institutions. Constructively, these themes are deployed in critical engagement with contemporary political theology, particularly as represented in Radical Orthodoxy and the new-Augustinianism.

Author : Dennis Ngien
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Suffering of God According to Martin Luther's Theologia Crucis written by Dennis Ngien and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dennis Ngien places Luther within the context of the medieval Church, the early Church's discussion of the suffering of God and the modern discussions of the essential Apathy. Luther accepts the Old Church's Theopaschitism, but he rejects Patripassianism, a heresy of the Old Church. This study breaks new ground by taking Luther a step further arguing that only a trinitarian theology of the cross is genuine Christian theology, and that the suffering of Christ touches the immanent Trinity as well as the economic Trinity.

Author : Craig L. Nessan
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506479138
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free in Deed written by Craig L. Nessan and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free in Deed serves as a primer in Lutheran ethics for faith and the church as the body of Christ. It captures the fruit of Craig L. Nessan's teaching of ethics and his research and reflection on Christian ethical existence over his entire career. The heart of Lutheran ethics, Nessan claims, involves serving neighbors. When Christ sets us "free indeed" (John 8:36), we are set free to serve others "in deed." Ethics involves intentional and disciplined reflection, together in community, on the choices we must make in living out our lives in the world. While the focus on loving the neighbor is not unique to Lutheran ethics, the author contends in this book that it is the most distinctive feature of ethics in the Lutheran perspective. To that end, Nessan explores biblical authority and Lutheran hermeneutics alongside the authority of the traditional elements of tradition, reason, and experience. He moves on to explore what gospel freedom looks like in the current American context. Nessan acknowledges the misinterpretation of Luther's two-kingdoms teaching, opting to describe Luther's two kingdoms as God's two strategies to bring forth the kingdom (shalom) of God. Also addressed are the themes of justification and sanctification, the vocation of the universal priesthood, the ethics of the cross, Lutheran ethics and political advocacy, and the ethics of forgiveness. The book is accessibly written with theology students, pastors, and interested lay readers in mind.

Author : Paul R. Hinlicky
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802864929
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Luther and the Beloved Community written by Paul R. Hinlicky and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Christian belief tenable today? Is it possible to be a creedal Christian? With the help of Martin Luther, Paul Hinlicky here explores classical Christian beliefs regarding the person and work of Christ and human nature and destiny. He also counters contemporary objections to creedal faith, from the so-called new perspective on Paul to Pope Benedict s rejection of the Augsburg Confession to the continuing challenge of Marx. Luther and the Beloved Community does not present Luther s medieval thought as a possibility for today, but does make him available for the future as a teacher of the faith and a help for tackling contemporary questions of Christian belief. According to Hinlicky, Luther is misused and misunderstood by those of his own tradition and needs to be understood not as hero of the faith but rather as the proponent of a beloved community that does not yet fully exist. In performing this makeover, Hinlicky reveals genuine new insights concealed within Luther s rhetoric.

Author : Robert Kolb
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0199604703
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther's Theology written by Robert Kolb and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2014 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief biographical overview precedes the six sections of this Handbook, designed to give introductions to Luther's thought, its development, and its historical and continuing impact. Presented with a variety of approaches and methods, each of the forty-seven essays gives a summary of its topic, a review of previous studies on the topic, and suggestions for areas of future research.

Author : George Forell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1579102824
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith Active in Love written by George Forell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the extensiveness of the resources consulted and in the depth of insight into Luther's own thought which is here revealed, Dr. Forell's work compares very favorably with anything that has been produced on the subject by European scholarship. It is the most solid and genuine piece of Luther research that has come out in this country to my knowledge." - Edgar M. Carlson, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minn."The book is especially notable for its balanced judgment and objectivity. Prof. Forell attempts no whitewash, but notes Luther's personal and historical limitations at the same time as he indicates the enduringly valid principles of his ethical thought." - Warren A. Quanbeck, Luther Theological Seminary. St. Paul, Minn."This is a significant contribution toward a classification of Luther's social ethics. It convincingly refutes both of the divergent tendencies which assert 'that Luther had no social ethics at all, since he placed society outside of the Christian Gospel, or that his social ethics was purely pragmatic, accepting the social order of his day and thus helping to bring about the growth of capitalism and nationalism.'" - Martin Heinecken, The Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA"This is a book which should be in every Lutheran pastor's personal library and in every Lutheran parish library. As a matter of public relations, parochial, circuit , and district public relations committees should ensure that it finds a place on the shelves of public libraries and college and university libraries as a salutary corrective to the conventional misrepresentations of Luther's ethical principles." - Arthur Carl Piepkorn, Concordia Theological Seminary, St. Louis, MO.