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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... honor and glory.{26} Worse than these are temptations of faith. They trouble some persons more than others and they take different forms. “To me,” said Luther, “Satan casts up my evil deeds, the fact that I used to say Mass, or that I ...
... honor and glory.{26} Worse than these are temptations of faith. They trouble some persons more than others and they take different forms. “To me,” said Luther, “Satan casts up my evil deeds, the fact that I used to say Mass, or that I ...
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... honor are worthy of the Lamb that was slain{137} and rose again—and, together with him, of us also who believe that he was slain and rose again. About this there is no doubt. I hope that our friends will soon return. Farewell, dear ...
... honor are worthy of the Lamb that was slain{137} and rose again—and, together with him, of us also who believe that he was slain and rose again. About this there is no doubt. I hope that our friends will soon return. Farewell, dear ...
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... as we can muster. Graciously deign to free this man from all evil, and put to nought the work that Satan has done in him, to the honor of thy name and the strengthening of the faith of believers; through the same Jesus Christ, thy.
... as we can muster. Graciously deign to free this man from all evil, and put to nought the work that Satan has done in him, to the honor of thy name and the strengthening of the faith of believers; through the same Jesus Christ, thy.
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... Honored Sir: Moved by Christian concern and loyalty, Vincent Wernsdorfer{153} has urged me to write this letter to you. I ask at the outset that you receive it kindly. He told me that since the death of your dear wife, who departed II ...
... Honored Sir: Moved by Christian concern and loyalty, Vincent Wernsdorfer{153} has urged me to write this letter to you. I ask at the outset that you receive it kindly. He told me that since the death of your dear wife, who departed II ...
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... honored sir, I ask you to discontinue those Masses and vigils and daily prayers for her soul. It is enough to pray God once or twice for her, because he has said to us, “Whatsoever ye shall ask, if ye believe, ye shall receive.”{155} If ...
... honored sir, I ask you to discontinue those Masses and vigils and daily prayers for her soul. It is enough to pray God once or twice for her, because he has said to us, “Whatsoever ye shall ask, if ye believe, ye shall receive.”{155} If ...
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