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Being Shaped by Freedom: An Examination of Luther’s Development of Christian Liberty, 1520–1525 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Did Luther get Christian freedom right? In this volume, author Brett James Muhlhan seeks to find the answer to this question by examination of two elements: What is Luther’s understanding of Christian freedom? How did his understanding stand up under the pressure of reformation? Muhlhan explores both of these elements and contends that the sublime beauty of Luther’s early understanding of...

the 1522–25 radical crises. In remaining consistent throughout this intense struggle for evangelical freedom, Luther demonstrates that his concept of freedom is relational in character, cruciform in substance, and complex in structure. To misconstrue any part of this formulation is, in Luther’s mind, a departure from biblical and evangelical freedom. A misconstrual of this understanding is also, for Luther, a giving up of the sublime gift of freedom that Christ has won and given to humanity. The
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