Baptism in Martin Luther’s Theology
Kirsi Stjerna
Baptism opens a window to the heart of Martin Luther’s 16th-century theology. It offers a perspective for how Luther understands the impact of grace and its channels, as well as the nature ...
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Certainty and Security in Martin Luther’s Theology
Susan E. Schreiner
Crucial for Luther’s theology and his own experience was the question of whether one’s salvation was certain. And the security of the truth which underlay doctrine was complexly related to ...
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The Cosmological Vision of Martin Luther
Mickey L. Mattox
Martin Luther was not an original contributor to the study of cosmology, and if one were to judge only by his explicit remarks on the matter, it would seem to have been of little interest ...
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The Debate between Martin Luther and Erasmus
Robert Kolb
Martin Luther and Desiderius Erasmus played somewhat significant roles in each other’s lives. Their early relationship is not free from a sense of the serious differences that divided ...
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The Distinction between Law and Gospel in Martin Luther’s Theological Development
Charles P. Arand
Martin Luther’s insistence on the proper distinction between law and gospel in theology marks one of his most important contributions to the Reformation movement and subsequent Protestant ...
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Emotions and Experience in Martin Luther
Pekka Kärkkäinen
Martin Luther’s view of emotions is firmly based on traditional language. He prefers to use affect as a general term for emotional phenomena, which includes general inclinations of love ...
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The German Catholic Dioceses on the Eve of the Reformation
Charlotte Methuen
The structures of the late medieval Church into which Martin Luther was born and within which he received his education and theological training were complicated, particularly in the ...
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The Gift in Martin Luther’s Theology
Bo Kristian Holm
In analyzing the role of gift and giving in Martin Luther’s theology, one almost inevitably has to deal with the contrast between Marcel Mauss’s description of archaic gift economy, where ...
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God in Martin Luther
Jan-Olav Henriksen
Luther’s understanding of God saturates his oeuvre, and in turn, this understanding is saturated by his doctrine of the justification of the sinner. God is the sovereign source and origin ...
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The Incarnation in Martin Luther’s Theology
Anne Käfer
Luther’s understanding of the Incarnation concerns various subject areas in his theology, among them his understanding of scripture, his teaching on the sacraments in particular, as well ...
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