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Harvesting Martin Luther’s Reflections on Theology, Ethics, and the Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

As profound as Martin Luther’s ideas are, this giant of church history was concerned above all with practical instruction for daily Christian living. Harvesting Martin Luther’s Reflections highlights this concern of Luther, mining his thought in key areas of doctrine, ethics, and church practice. Gathering noteworthy contributions by well-known Luther scholars from Europe and the Americas, this...

Luther’s theology also rested on a presupposition that there were two definitions for the term “the righteousness of God” as it referred to God’s essence. But the Reformer believed that only one of those definitions corresponded to Paul’s usage and to that of the Old Testament in general. Luther dismissed the predominant medieval understanding of what makes God righteous, or what makes God God, as he had learned it.2 God’s righteousness has usually been understood
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