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Timothy J. Wengert skillfully provides a clear understanding of the historical context from which the treatise The Freedom of a Christian and his accompanying Letter to Pope Leo X arose. As controversy concerning his writings grew, Luther was, instructed to write a reconciliation-minded letter to Pope Leo X (1475-1521). To this letter, he appended a nonpolemical tract describing the heart of his beliefs, The Freedom of a Christian. Luther's Latin...
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With great clarity and insight, James M. Estes illuminates Luther's call to secular authorities to help with the reform of the church in this important 1520 treatise. Starting with the Ninety-Five Theses in 1517, Luther's appeals for reform had been, addressed to the ecclesiastical hierarchy, whose divinely imposed responsibility for such things he took for granted. By the early months of 1520, however, Luther had come to the conclusion, that nothing...
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In autumn 1525, Luther wrote The Bondage of the Will as, a response to humanist and theologian Erasmus of Rotterdam's On Free Will.
Luther's treatise is important on four accounts: First, Luther wanted to show his own humanist education. Second, against Erasmus, who had maintained that the question of free will could not be, decided just on the basis of the Bible, Luther stressed the clarity imbedded in Scripture. Third, Luther stressed, that his...
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With great, detail, Kirsi I. Stjerna introduces and annotates Luther's Large Catechism, which the reformer offered as a radical reorientation in the matters of theology and spirituality. After diagnosing what appeared to him as his church's failures to provide proper spiritual care, Luther set out to offer a new compass for religious life. The sweeping reforms he proposed took root primarily through preaching and education as people embraced the new...
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In sermons and pamphlets, Luther and his colleagues claimed that salvation came by faith alone and not by works. Although, the better-known pamphlets of 1520-To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation Concerning the Improvement of the Christian Estate, The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, and The Freedom of a Christian, would also appear, Timothy J. Wengert shows, how Luther's Treatise on Good Works fulfilled Luther's own prediction, that it...
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The Freedom of the Christian was Martin Luther's first public defense of the doctrine of justification by grace through faith on account of Christ alone. Luther's explosive rediscovery of the Gospel of Jesus Christ shattered the Church of Rome's foundation of works, which considered good works a part of salvation instead of a result of it. Here, Luther constructed a rich theology that relies on the full power of the Gospel, which not only grants saving...
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