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We live in something of a renaissance of Luther studies, especially of his social context, the striking variability of his theology, and the many varieties of Luther’s that emerged as he reinvented himself and responded to crises in his life. This exciting volume brings these new perspectives into a systematic framework. Here new understandings of Luther’s popular image, his effect on the...

concerned with the penultimate, theology with the ultimate. The penultimate is not untrue simply because it precedes the ultimate; the penultimate is only false when it desires to be the ultimate. Luther makes the important distinction between the mortal human, who exists from birth to death, and the human, made in the image of God and destined for immortal community with God. There is a difference between any human judgment—even my own judgment—over me and my life and God’s judgment over me and
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