Luther's Wittenberg World

Luther's Wittenberg World

Author: Robert Kolb

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 150644640X

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In conversations about the Reformation, the name Martin Luther towers above all others. And rightly so. His work, vision, and writings set Christianity on a course of events that would forever change the way that most believers live and understand their faith. And yet, the Reformation was far more than Martin Luther. Around Luther were hundreds of people - fellow teachers and priests, politicians, artists, printers, and spouses - without whose activity and work the Reformation would have progressed much differently. These women and men make up Luther's Wittenberg world, and there is much to be learned from engaging their work. In this monumental work, Robert Kolb introduces us to those individuals. Engaging and informative essays on the social, political, and economic realities of the sixteenth century frame brief introductions to over two hundred supporting "cast members" whose lives played out around Martin Luther. Comprehensively illustrated, with maps, bibliographies, and other resources, Luther's Wittenberg World is a treasure.


A World Ablaze

A World Ablaze

Author: Craig Harline

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0190275189

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It's not always easy to find the human Martin Luther underneath the centuries of accumulated myth. A World Ablaze focuses on the drama and uncertainty of the first few critical years of Luther's rise, when his personal struggles with salvation were transformed into a crisis of Christendom.


From Wittenberg to the World

From Wittenberg to the World

Author: Charles Arand

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Published: 2018-05-14

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 364753126X

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The book honours the Rev. Dr. Robert A Kolb, retired Director of the Institute for Mission Studies and Missions Professor in systematic theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and perhaps the leading authority on the development of "Wittenberg Theology" in the English-speaking world. At the same time, his teaching and writing, which continues without flagging, has emphasized the importance of translating and retranslating the historic Lutheran faith in terms that address contemporary issues and contemporary people. In this volume, colleagues and co-workers address and push forward Kolb insights into the history of the Reformation era and on the impact of those Reformation issues (and quarrels) on the life of the church in the world today. With contributions by Charles Arand, L'ubomir Batka, Amy Nelson Burnett, Irene Dingel, Mary Jane Haemig, Scott Hendrix, Erik Herrmann, Werner Klän, David Lumpp, Mark Mattes, Daniel Mattson, Richard Muller, Paul Robinson, Robert Rosin, and Timothy Wengert.


Bound Choice, Election, and Wittenberg Theological Method

Bound Choice, Election, and Wittenberg Theological Method

Author: Robert Kolb

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2017-01-01

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1506427103

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Galvanized by Erasmus' teaching on free will, Martin Luther wrote "De servo arbitrio", or "The Bondage of the Will", insisting that the sinful human will could not turn itself to God. In this first study to investigate the sixteenth-century reception of "De servo", Robert Kolb unpacks Luther's theology and recounts his followers' ensuing disputes until their resolution in the Lutheran churches' 1577 "Formula of Concord".


The World's Congress of Religions

The World's Congress of Religions

Author: John Wesley Hanson

Publisher:

Published: 1894

Total Pages: 1216

ISBN-13:

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