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Title: Luther in Context by David Curtis Steinmetz ISBN: 0-8010-2609-1 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Summary: Intellectual History At Its Best!
Comment: There are Social Historians and there are Intellectual Historians. It is a sad thing that people today seems to prefer the findings of the Social Historians over the Intellectual Historians. For example, the Reformation is today analysed by many from the perspectives of economic pressures, political climate and social conditioning when the most crucial perspective of analysis should be centered upon the "Battle of Ideas".
This book seeks to do just that. Steinmetz shows Luther as someone born to Theology as much as Bach was born to Music! More than that, Steinmetz's Luther is a fighter - a wrestler! Like Jacob of old, here we see Luther contending with his "contemporaries" - by that I mean the characters and ideas that more than any social concerns or pressures occupied his thoughts and demanded an appropriate response. We see Luther versus Abraham, Luther versus Isaiah, Luther versus Paul, Luther versus Augustine, Luther versus Ockham, Luther versus Erasmus and ultimately we see Luther versus himself and Luther versus God!
In short, we see Luther's beliefs as the product of conflict/crisis - much unlike the convenient/functional sort we see in many today. Reading this book allows me to see many Lutheran doctrines with far greater clarity than ever - e.g. the Hidden God, the Bondage of the Will, etc. I see Luther as someone like Jacob in the Book of Genesis holding on to the LORD, clinging on for his dear life! Then I see Luther limping away after his fights... a better man, a defeated man, a victorious man, a rebel and a worshipper. Israel.
Read Althaus' "Theology of Martin Luther" as your primer on Lutheranism. Then read this book to see everything in clearer perspective and context. I dare you to remain cool and disinterested after experiencing these vigorous battles of the mind and spirit.
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Title: Luther by Heiko A. Oberman ISBN: 0385422784 Publisher: Image Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Calvin in Context by David Curtis Steinmetz ISBN: 0195091655 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Martin Luther's Theology: Its Historical and Systematic Development by Bernhard Lohse, Roy A. Harrisville ISBN: 0800630912 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $43.00 |
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Title: Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther by Roland Herbert Bainton ISBN: 0452011469 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: On Being a Theologian of the Cross: Reflections on Luther's Heidelberg Disputation, 1518 by Gerhard O. Forde ISBN: 080284345X Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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