Luther: Letters of Spiritual CounselPickle Partners Publishing, 2018 M09 3 - 349 páginas 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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... evil lust stirs, a man flee to prayer, call upon God's mercy and help, read and meditate on the 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 ...
... evil lust stirs, a man flee to prayer, call upon God's mercy and help, read and meditate on the 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 ...
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... evil deeds, the fact that I used to say Mass, or that I did this or that in the days of my youth. Others, again, he vexes by casting up to them the wicked life which they have lived.”{27} Luther believed that Satan caused men to dwell ...
... evil deeds, the fact that I used to say Mass, or that I did this or that in the days of my youth. Others, again, he vexes by casting up to them the wicked life which they have lived.”{27} Luther believed that Satan caused men to dwell ...
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... Luther's counsel in such cases was often two-sided. On the one hand, he exhorted wrongdoers to reform and to redress the evil they had done. On the other hand, he admonished the wronged to bear their sufferings with patience. This.
... Luther's counsel in such cases was often two-sided. On the one hand, he exhorted wrongdoers to reform and to redress the evil they had done. On the other hand, he admonished the wronged to bear their sufferings with patience. This.
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... evil spirit takes delight (as he did from the beginning with Adam) in using a woman to make a fool of a man—if he cannot make him godless, as he much prefers to do. In short, whatever it is, whether it be in this woman or in others whom ...
... evil spirit takes delight (as he did from the beginning with Adam) in using a woman to make a fool of a man—if he cannot make him godless, as he much prefers to do. In short, whatever it is, whether it be in this woman or in others whom ...
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... evil spirit indicates that he controls them mightily and securely. I pray you, since the case deserves it, that you publish an account of it{123} and that you investigate everything carefully to discover whether any deception is being ...
... evil spirit indicates that he controls them mightily and securely. I pray you, since the case deserves it, that you publish an account of it{123} and that you investigate everything carefully to discover whether any deception is being ...
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