The courage of faith : Martin Luther and the Theonomous self / Mary Gaebler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaebler, Mary (Mary D.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.

Luther, Martin.

Theological anthropology.

Faith.

Physical Description:

xi, 208 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, [2013]

Summary:

Theologian and ethicist Mary Gaebler offers a critical corrective to the historical record and theological assumptions about human being and human agency. She not only shows how Luther's thinking on the will and effective agency evolved, she shows a deeper coherence in his thinking that guided him through successive vocations as a monk, public figure, spouse, father, and pastor. Luther's increasingly open anthropology, she shows, evinced a growing affirmation of the created order, recognition of faith's role in the transformation of the world, and his exhortation to take courage in God's transforming presence for the good of all. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 God's Prophet 23

2 Freed to Serve 83

3 Luther and Self-Love 117

4 Life in the Spirit 155.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical reference and index.

ISBN:

9780800697525

0800697529

OCLC:

857167860