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Martin Luther read and preached the biblical text as the record of God addressing real, flesh-and-blood people in their daily lives. He used stories of the faithful as depicted in biblical narratives to drive home his vision of the Christian life, a life that includes struggling against temptation, enduring suffering, praising God in worship and prayer, and serving one’s neighbor in response to...

Near Eastern” way of writing. Sternberg attributes this contrast to a disparity between different cultural ways of trying to define ontological reality: the Greeks staked their success on human exploration or contemplation of the Ultimate, and Israel’s neighbors staked such success on human wit and wisdom, but the Hebrew prophets listened for the word of the Lord.59 This disparity rested even more fundamentally on the absence in the thought of most Greek thinkers of a Creator, a personal God, who
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