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In the five hundred years since the publication of Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses, a rich set of traditions have grown up around that action and the subsequent events of the Reformation. This up-to-date dictionary by leading theologians and church historians covers Luther’s life and thought, key figures of his time, and the various traditions he continues to influence. Prominent scholars of...

(elsewhere termed the “political use” or “temporal use”). This usus politicus—enforced by the state, preached and supported by the church—“has its own glory and reward in life here among humans, but not before God” (WA 39/1:441). Continuing his commentary on Gal. 3:19, Luther clarifies: “The other use of the Law is the theological or spiritual one, which serves to increase transgressions. This is the primary purpose of the Law of Moses, that through it sin might grow and be multiplied, especially
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