In autumn 1525, Luther wrote The Bondage of the Will as a response to humanist and theologian Erasmus of Rotterdam, who had criticized Luther's teachings in the diatribe on Free Will. Luther's argument on the matter of the bound and free will poses a challenge and an invitation for constructive contemporary theology.
The Captivation of the Will provocatively revisits a perennial topic of controversy: human free will. Highly esteemed Lutheran thinker Gerhard O. Forde cuts to the heart of the subject by reexamining the famous debate on the will between Luther and Erasmus.
Often nowadays one hears affirmations of spirituality and even religious life but rarely of institutional religion. Is the church dying? Noted theologian Vtor Westhelle urges an emphatic no and traces the church crisis to an "ecclesiological deficit," a lack of serious reflection on the real role of church as an ideal community and an ......
Lutheran Liturgical Theology in Ecumenical Conversation
Explores the dynamics of ecclesial and liturgical theology, examining the body of Christ in action. This book provides an historical and doctrinal thinking on a diversity of liturgical subjects under the umbrella of Lutheran liturgical theology and in ecumenical conversation.
"This book tells the story of religion and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. It rejects simplistic frameworks of secularization and enlightenment and emphasizes, instead, continuing and powerful Protestant ideas of God's oversight in shaping and motivating human activity in the realms of narrative, medicine, missions, charity, and ......
Luther's Theologia Crucis and Bonhoeffer's Christology
The Cross of Reality investigates Bonhoeffer's interpretation and use of Luther's theology in shaping his Christology. H. Gaylon Barker uses the "theology of the cross" as a key to understanding the characteristic elements that make up Bonhoeffer's theology; he also shows how Bonhoeffer's conversation with his teachers and contemporaries develops.
Luther's Teachings and Our Work for Freedom, Justice, and Peace
The title of this book plays upon the central place a theology of the cross holds in Lutheran theologies, especially lucid in Luther's Heidelberg Disputation (1518). The 500th anniversary of this document coincided with the 70th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations wherein the preamble points to a global aspiration ......
A treasury of prayer in the centuries old Anglican, Lutheran, Roman Catholic tradition of the offices. The material is arranged to facilitate use by clergy and laity; to be a prayer book for all the people of God. It is intended for the faithful of many denominations--to be used whole or in part, in private, in families, or small groups in ......
