Defender of the Most Holy Matriarchs

Defender of the Most Holy Matriarchs PDF

Author: Mickey Leland Mattox

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 9004128948

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A study in the history of exegesis, this text examines Martin Luther's interpretation of the stories of the women of Genesis, evaluating his understanding of male/female relations as well as his appropriation of Christian hagiographical traditions of biblical interpretation.

"Defender of the Most Holy Matriarchs": Martin Luther’s Interpretation of the Women of Genesis in the Enarrationes in Genesin, 1535-1545

Author: Mickey Leland Mattox

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-10-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9004473564

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A study in the history of exegesis, this text examines Martin Luther's interpretation of the stories of the women of Genesis, evaluating his understanding of male/female relations as well as his appropriation of Christian hagiographical traditions of biblical interpretation.

Luther’s Lectures on Genesis and the Formation of Evangelical Identity

Luther’s Lectures on Genesis and the Formation of Evangelical Identity PDF

Author: John A. Maxfield

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2008-09-24

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1935503510

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Martin Luther's lectures on Genesis, delivered at the University of Wittenberg during the last decade of his life and later published by his students, allow modern readers to view a sixteenth-century professor engaging his students with the text of scripture and using that text to form them spiritually. The lectures show how Luther attempted to form in his students a new identity, an Evangelical identity, enabling them to make sense of the rapidly changing society and church in which they were being prepared to serve, primarily as pastors in the developing territorial churches of the Reformation. This study uses the text of the lectures to outline the contours of the new identity that Luther laid out through his exposition of Genesis. They include how Luther approached and taught his students to perceive the text of holy scripture; how that text unveiled for Luther the nature of Christian life in the world; and how Luther taught his students to view the past, the present, and the future of the church and the world through the book of Genesis. Whether in the published editions of the lectures the historic Luther was actually misunderstood or was transformed in some way into the prophetic Luther of later memory, the text reveals the Luther that his students heard and subsequent generations read.

Wandering Women and Holy Matrons

Wandering Women and Holy Matrons PDF

Author: Leigh Ann Craig

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 9004174265

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This book explores womena (TM)s experiences of pilgrimage in Latin Christendom between 1300 and 1500 C.E. Later medieval authors harbored grave doubts about womena (TM)s mobility; literary images of mobile women commonly accused them of lust, pride, greed, and deceit. Yet real women commonly engaged in pilgrimage in a variety of forms, both physical and spiritual, voluntary and compulsory, and to locations nearby and distant. Acting within both practical and social constraints, such women helped to construct more positive interpretations of their desire to travel and of their experiences as pilgrims. Regardless of how their travel was interpreted, those women who succeeded in becoming pilgrims offer us a rare glimpse of ordinary women taking on extraordinary religious and social authority.

The Annotated Luther, Volume 5

The Annotated Luther, Volume 5 PDF

Author: Hans H. Hillerbrand

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2017-08-01

Total Pages: 736

ISBN-13: 1451472331

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This volume (volume 5) features Luther's writings that intesect church and state, faith and life lived as a follower of Christ. His insights regarding marriage, trade, public education, war and are articulated. His theological and biblical insights also colored the way he spoke of the "Jews" and Turks, as well his admonition to the German peasants in their uprisings against the established powers.

Martin Luther

Martin Luther PDF

Author: Alberto Melloni

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-12-20

Total Pages: 1756

ISBN-13: 3110499029

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The three volumes present the current state of international research on Martin Luther’s life and work and the Reformation's manifold influences on history, churches, politics, culture, philosophy, arts and society up to the 21st century. The work is initiated by the Fondazione per le scienze religiose Giovanni XXIII (Bologna) in cooperation with the European network Refo500. This handbook is also available in German.

The Gift of Grace

The Gift of Grace PDF

Author: Niels Henrik Gregersen

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published:

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9781451418804

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This landmark volume, the first of two, assesses the prospects and promise of Lutheran theology at the opening of a new millennium. From four continents, the thirty noted and respected contributors not only gauge how such classic themes as grace, the cross, and justification wear today but also look to key issues of ecumenism, social justice, global religious life, and the impact of contemporary science on Christian belief.

Changing Churches

Changing Churches PDF

Author: Mickey L. Mattox

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2012-02-27

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0802866948

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Sharp controversies -- about biblical authority, the ordination of women, evangelical "worship styles," and the struggle for homosexual "inclusion" -- have rocked the Lutheran church in recent decades. In Changing Churches two men who once communed at the same Lutheran Eucharistic table explain their similar but different decisions to leave the Lutheran faith tradition -- one for Orthodoxy, the other for Roman Catholicism. Here Mickey L. Mattox and A. G. Roeber address the most difficult questions Protestants face when considering such a conversion, including views on justification, grace, divinization, the church and its authority, women and ministry, papal infallibility, the role of Mary, and homosexuality. They also discuss the long-standing ecumenical division between Rome and the Orthodox patriarchates, acknowledging the difficult issues that still confront those traditions from within and divide them from one another.

Acts

Acts PDF

Author: Esther Chung-Kim

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 0830829695

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In the latest Reformation Commentary on Scripture, we watch as the diverse streams of the Protestant movement converge on the book of Acts. As we return with the Reformers to this vision of Spirit-filled community, we are given a lesson in the nature of biblical reform from those who bore it out for the first time.