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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... matter of wrong acts (although it is this too) as it is a matter of wrong orientation. With this understanding the medieval distinction between mortal and venial sins of course collapsed. Man confesses, “I am a sinner,” rather than, “I ...
... matter of wrong acts (although it is this too) as it is a matter of wrong orientation. With this understanding the medieval distinction between mortal and venial sins of course collapsed. Man confesses, “I am a sinner,” rather than, “I ...
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... matter how much the gates of hell rage.{95} Accordingly, since you asked me to write you a letter of consolation ... matters little, then, that God has caused you to be sick and bedridden inasmuch as he has so abundantly blessed you ...
... matter how much the gates of hell rage.{95} Accordingly, since you asked me to write you a letter of consolation ... matters little, then, that God has caused you to be sick and bedridden inasmuch as he has so abundantly blessed you ...
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... matter how stubbornly he resists. About ten years ago we had an experience in this neighborhood with a very wicked demon, but we succeeded in subduing him by perseverance and by unceasing prayer and unquestioning faith.{116} The same ...
... matter how stubbornly he resists. About ten years ago we had an experience in this neighborhood with a very wicked demon, but we succeeded in subduing him by perseverance and by unceasing prayer and unquestioning faith.{116} The same ...
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... raging horribly against the truth of God. But seeing that in the meantime the matter has unhappily taken a turn through the power and providence of God, that the Turk has caused so much Lewis was killed in the Battle of Mohacs on August ...
... raging horribly against the truth of God. But seeing that in the meantime the matter has unhappily taken a turn through the power and providence of God, that the Turk has caused so much Lewis was killed in the Battle of Mohacs on August ...
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... matter of the gospel will hardly be dealt with, or at least only after long delay, for the princes are not in a great hurry about the cause of religion, especially since the discussion will rather have to do with the Turk. You will be ...
... matter of the gospel will hardly be dealt with, or at least only after long delay, for the princes are not in a great hurry about the cause of religion, especially since the discussion will rather have to do with the Turk. You will be ...
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