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The Theology of Luther in Its Historical Development and Inner Harmony, Vol. I is unavailable, but you can change that!

This unique work is a biography of Martin Luther that traces his theology through the dramatic events of his life. Translated from its original nineteenth-century German, this volume analyzes the inner workings of his theology, finding an internal harmony between his beliefs and his practices.

this brother pointed out to him the meaning of faith, and of the words in the so-called Apostles’ Creed: “I believe in the forgiveness of sins,” explaining that we must not only believe in general that some persons are forgiven, which even the devils believe, or that David and Peter have attained forgiveness, but that it is God’s commandment that every one should believe in forgiveness for himself. His father confessor then directed his attention also to a passage in a sermon of St. Bernhard, in
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