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Title: Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings, 3rd edition By: Martin Luther Format: Paperback Vendor: Fortress Press Publication Date: 2012 | Weight: 2 pounds 10 ounces ISBN: 0800698835 ISBN-13: 9780800698836 Stock No: WW698836 |
The best one-volume reader of Luther's writingsnow revisedMartin Luther's Basic Theological Writings, a single-volume introduction to Luther's most influential, noted, and important writings in the modern translationsincluding excerpts of his sermons and letterspresents Luther the theologian "steeped in the word of God, speaking to the whole church," even as it takes the reader straight to Luther the man, to his controversial Reformation insights, to his strongest convictions about God and Scripture and the life of the church, and most importantly to his theologya still-exciting encounter with the meaning of Jesus Christ for each age.
The third edition includes revised introductions, updated bibliography, index, and the addition of "A Meditation on Christ's Passion" (1519), "Treatise on the Blessed Sacrament" (1519), "Sermon on the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of ChristAgainst the Fanatics" (1526), "Sermon in Castle Pleissenburg" (1539), and "Consolation to Women Whose Pregnancies Have Not Gone Well" (1542), as well as new translations of "A Practical Way to Pray" (1535) and "On the Freedom of a Christian" (1520).
William R. Russell, editor of the second and third editions, is translator of The Schmalkald Articles in The Book of Concord (2000). He is author of Praying for Reform: Luther, Prayer, and the Christian Life (2006) and Luther"s Theological Testament (1995).
Timothy F. Lull was President of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkeley, and Professor of systematic theology there before his death in 2003.
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