Martin Luther
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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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Get to know the theologian and religious thinker whose radical reinvention of the Christian faith sparked the Protestant Reformation. In A Treatise on Good Works, Martin Luther expounds on his contention that although Christlike behavior is important, believers are redeemed ultimately through God's grace. This primer is a great way to deepen your understanding of the Christian faith and its turbulent theological history. As part of our mission to...
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Galatians is book that explodes the notion that the Christian is under the Law. Get a glimpse into the mind of Luther, who did more than anyone to break the antichrist stranglehold the Roman Catholic Church, by exploring his commentary on the book of Galatians as shows that true believers are under effective and freeing grace and not a Law to keep us as slaves.
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Timeless insights from one of the most important people in church history. Some people value good works so much that they overlook faith in Christ. Faith should be first.… It is faith-without good works and prior to good works-that takes us to heaven. We come to God through faith alone. -Martin LutherResounding across the centuries, Martin Luther's prolific writings as a pastor, theologian, scholar, Bible translator, father, and more, remain powerful...
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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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Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings has become the gold standard for use in seminary and college environments. It not only offers all of Luther's most influential, noted, and important writings in the modern translations but also includes excerpts of his sermons and letters that shed light on Luther's own religious and theological development. The volume takes the reader straight to Luther the man, to his controversial Reformation insights,...
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The place and significance of Martin Luther in the long history of Christian anti-Jewish polemic has been and continues to be a contested issue. The literature on the subject is substantial, and diverse. While efforts to exonerate Luther as "merely" a man of his times who "merely" perpetuated what he had received from his cultural and theological tradition have rightly been jettisoned, there still persists even among the educated public the perception...
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In his The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, Martin Luther set forth a reconsideration of the sacramental Christian life that centered on the word. His thesis is that the papacy had distorted the sacraments with its own traditions and regulations, transforming them into a system of control and coercion. The evangelical liberty of the sacramental promises had been, replaced by a papal absolutism, which like a feudal lordship, and claimed its own...
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Die sprachlich ausdrucksstarke Bibelübersetzung Martin Luthers erscheint nun erstmals auch als E-Book. Es enthält nicht nur den Bibeltext mit Apokryphen. Alle Parallel- und Verweisstellen sind als Link ausgezeichnet und verfolgbar. Die Ausgabe ist sowohl für spezielle E-Book-Reader als auch für E-Book-Apps auf Mobilgeräten wie dem iPad geeignet. Der Vertrieb erfolgt über die gängigen E-Book-Portale.
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Der Kleine Katechismus ist eine kurze Schrift, die Martin Luther 1529 verfasst hat. In manchen lutherischen Kirchen stellt er nach wie vor die Lehrgrundlage für den Konfirmandenunterricht dar. Der kleine Katechismus will als Einführung in den christlichen Glauben verstanden sein. Er ist mit dem Großen Katechismus und den Schmalkaldischen Artikeln der Teil der lutherischen Bekenntnisschriften, die aus Luthers eigener Feder stammen. Er hat deshalb...
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Diese Ausgabe der Briefe von Martin Luther wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Dieses eBook ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert.
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"Der Herr mit euch, mein tapfrer Held! Ich preise die Barmherzigkeit Gottes, die in euch ist, mein Hochgelehrter und Hochwerther Herr, dadurch ihr endlich die Mäuler derer zu stopfen vermocht, die unbillig...
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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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This timeless little classic communicates essential teachings of Martin Luther. The subject of Freedom is both timely and poignantly relevant today. For the Christian, this freedom is liberty from sin and death, and the opportunity to serve one's neighbor. Written in a simple style, On Christian Liberty conveys significant spiritual insight into the grace of God and liberating faith in Christ Jesus. It is counter-cultural, down-to-earth, and accessible...
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Martin Luther's most comprehensive work on justification by faith, his commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians is translated and edited from the Latin into a lively style, paralleling his spoken lectures. Combined with the passion and faith expressed in these lectures, the biblical foundation for the crucial doctrine of justification is underscored and expressed to a new audience.
The commentary is also a historical document, a recording...
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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 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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Martin Luther's Small and Large Catechisms are important tools in teaching the Christian faith to both young and old. In commemoration of the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation, St. Polycarp Publishing House is pleased to release this unique public domain edition of the Catechisms. This combined edition of Luther's Catechisms uses a modernized version of the public domain English translation from the 1921 edition of Triglot Concordia: The Symbolical...
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This work includes thirteen sermons by Martin Luther who aptly exposits passages of the Passion of Christ from Matthew, Luke, and John. Reading these short sermons will center the believer's heart on the work that Jesus did on the cross to bear the wrath due to our sins.