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"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times. This knowledge of and confidence in God's grace makes men glad and bold and happy in dealing with God and with all creatures" (Martin Luther, Prefaces to the New Testament, LW 35:370).

In time for the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, this book is a devotion for readers to use to engage with the writing and thoughts of Martin Luther, the founder of the Protestant Reformation. Each of the ninety-five entries...

What drew Martin Luther to the "Frankfurter" - at first sight, an undistinguished late Medieval treatise? Starting from this question, the monograph takes us back to the 14^th century. It reveals how the "Frankfurter" earned its unique philosophical and theological reputation through its involvement in transformation processes within "mystical discourse," making it akin to Luther's theological anthropology.

Michael Laffin demonstrates the promise of Martin Luther's thought for contemporary political theology by showing how Luther has been over-determined in standard genealogies of modernity which frequently deafen us to his unique contribution.

Laffin argues that contemporary theologians have typically followed a narrative derived from the work of a previous generation of political historians and philosophers, which tend to screen out or distort the Reformers' contribution to political theory. Common to these narratives are charges against Luther for his perceived univocal and nominal...

Martin Luther, the renowned sixteenth-century reformer, was a man who fully devoted his life to God. His deep faith led him to nail his Ninety-Five Theses to a church door on October 31, 1517, protesting the corruption within the Roman Catholic Church. His trust in God's providence allowed him to stand firm in front of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1522, where he bravely refused to recant his views. His conviction that all German people should be allowed to read the living Word of God led him and other scholars to translate the Bible into German. It was Luther's...

Im Mittelpunkt dieses Buchs stehen drei Redeereignisse auf dem Wormser Reichstag von 1521. Erstmals werden Anklage, Verteidigung und Aburteilung Martin Luthers als rhetorischer Zusammenhang untersucht. Hat Luther seine beruhmte Rede wirklich mit dem Ausruf "Hier stehe ich, ich kann nicht anders " geschlossen? Was hat die "sola scriptura"-Forderung mit Luthers merkwurdigen Nachverhandlungen in Worms zu tun? Gehort das alles zur Renaissance und zum Beginn der Neuzeit?

Es tritt ein Komplex von Kommunikationsmanahmen um Luthers PR-Team und um seine eigenen rhetorischen Interaktionen...

The Psalms forced Martin Luther to change how he read the Bible.

In Psalms of the Faithful Brian German shows us Luther's reappraisal of the plain sense of Scripture. By following the canonical shaping of the Psalter, Luther refined his interpretive principles into a more finely grained hermeneutic. Luther inspires us to read the Psalms empathetically with ancient Israelites and early church fathers. He stirs us up to join the "faithful synagogue" in praying to and praising the Lord our God.

According to many scholars, Luther established his approach...