Martin Luther's theology : a contemporary interpretation /
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| Author / Creator: | Bayer, Oswald. |
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| Uniform title: | Martin Luthers Theologie. English |
| Imprint: | Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2008. |
| Description: | xxiii, 374 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7547735 |
Table of Contents:
- Translator's Preface
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Rupture between Ages
- 1. Between the New and Old Aeon
- 2. In Spite of Evil
- 3. The Crucified One and the Message from the Cross
- 4. Personal Story and the World History
- 5. Apocalyptic and Courage to Live
- 6. Hidden and Revealed God
- A. Basic Themes (Prolegomena)
- 1. Every Person Is a Theologian: Luther's Understanding of Theology
- 1.1. What Is a Theologian?
- 1.1.1. Gratia Spiritus (Grace of the Spirit)
- 1.1.2. Tentatio (Agonizing Struggle)
- 1.1.3. Experientia (Experience)
- 1.1.4. Occasio (Opportunity)
- 1.1.5. Sedula Lectio (Constant, Concentrated Textual Study)
- 1.1.6. Bonarum Artium Cognitio (Knowledge and Practice of the Academic Disciplines)
- 1.2. Habitus [characters not reproducible] (God-given Skill)
- 2. The Topic of Theology: The Sinning Human Being and the Justifying God
- 2.1. Sapientia Experimentalis (Experiential Wisdom)
- 2.1.1. Oratio (Prayer)
- 2.1.2. Meditatio (Meditation on the Text)
- 2.1.3. Tentatio (Agonizing Struggle)
- 2.2. Subiectum Theologiae (The Subject of Theology)
- 2.3. Vita Passiva: Faith
- 3. What Does "Evangelical" Mean? The Reformational Turning Point in Luther's Theology
- 3.1. Perspective of the Question
- 3.2. Promissio as Speech Act That Frees and Gives Confidence
- 3.2.1. Statements That Establish and That Constitute
- 3.2.2. "Ego Te Absolvo!" (I Absolve You!)
- 3.2.3. Promissio as the Center
- 3.2.4. The Question concerning Competence
- 3.2.5. Summary
- 3.3. The Distinction between Law and Gospel
- 3.3.1. The Sequence
- 3.3.2. Christ as Gift and Example
- 3.3.3. Antinomianism and Nomism Today
- 3.4. Knowledge and Certainty
- 4. What Makes the Bible Become Holy Scripture?
- 4.1. The Priority of the Scripture over the Hearers and Interpreters
- 4.2. Church: Communion of Hearers
- 4.3. The Self-Disclosure of the Holy Scripture by Means of Law and Gospel
- 4.4. Spirit and Letter
- 4.5. "What Drives Christ Home"
- 4.6. The Three Fronts for Luther's Understanding of Scripture
- 4.6.1. Against the Skeptical Humanism of Erasmus of Rotterdam
- 4.6.2. Against the Formalism Advocated by Rome
- 4.6.3. Against the Spiritualizing Enthusiasts
- 4.7. The Relationship between the Old and New Testaments
- 4.8. "My Katie von Bora"
- B. Individual Themes (Specific Elements of Dogmatics and Ethics)
- 5. Creation: Establishment and Preservation of Community
- 5.1. Without Word, No World
- 5.1.1. Justification as Creation; Creation as Justification
- 5.1.2. Creation as Speech Act
- 5.1.3. God's Nature as the One Who Comes Beforehand
- 5.2. "Be Opened!"
- 5.2.1. Unable to Communicate
- 5.2.2. Word of Power in Sighing
- 5.2.3. "Natural Theology"?
- 5.3. Consummation of the World as Reestablishment of the Creation
- 6. The Order of the World: Church, Household, State
- 6.1. Main Features of the Teaching about the Three Estates
- 6.2. Church as Order of Creation
- 6.2.1. Reasonable Knowledge of God
- 6.2.2. True Belief in the Creator
- 6.2.3. God and Idol
- 6.2.4. Certainty Is Concrete
- 6.3. Household and State
- 6.3.1. The Spiritual Importance of the Temporal
- 6.3.2. Family and Marriage
- 6.3.3. State
- 6.4. Love as Criterion
- 7. The Human Being: In the Image of God
- 7.1. The Essence of the Human Being in Faith
- 7.2. Human Reason - "Almost Something Divine"
- 7.3. "... Created Me Together with All Creatures"
- 7.3.1. Faith in God the Giver
- 7.3.1.a. Summary
- 7.3.1.b. Development
- 7.3.2. The Response
- 7.3.3. The Amen
- 7.4. The Human Heart - a Place for Making Pictures
- 8. Sin and the Bound Will
- 8.1. The Perversion of the Human Being in Unbelief: Sin
- 8.1.1. Basic Definition
- 8.1.2. Differentiation within the Basic Definition
- 8.1.3. Turning Away from God; Curved in on the Self
- 8.2. The Bound Will
- 8.3. The "Inherited" Sin
- 8.4. Ridden by the Devil
- 9. God's Wrath and Evil
- 9.1. God's Understandable Wrath
- 9.2. God's Incomprehensible Wrath
- 9.2.1. God's Complete Efficacy Even in the Sinner
- 9.2.2. Evil or the Evil One; "God as Devil"
- 9.3. The Concept of Omnipotence and Form of Address
- 9.3.1. The Stronger and Weaker Concepts of Omnipotence
- 9.3.1.a. "Permission": Universal Talk about a Suffering God
- 9.3.1.b. The Wrath of God as the Opposite Side of His Love
- 9.3.1.c. Double Predestination
- 9.3.2. Form of Speech
- 9.3.3. The "Three Lights"
- 10. "Through the Son, Our Lord": God as Mercy and Love
- 10.1. "Dear Christians, One and All, Rejoice"
- 10.2. The "Happy Exchange"
- 10.3. "I Believe That Jesus Christ ... Is My Lord"
- 10.3.1. Faith in Christ the Lord
- 10.3.2. Christ's Nature Is His Work - Christ's Work Is His Nature
- 10.4. Communication of Attributes and Facing Outward
- 11. God's Presence: The Holy Spirit
- 11.1. "I Believe": "The Holy Spirit Has Called Me through the Gospel"
- 11.1.1. "I Believe That I Cannot ..."
- 11.1.2. "... but the Holy Spirit"
- 11.1.2.a. "... Has Called Me through the Gospel"
- 11.1.2.b. "... Just as He Calls the Whole Christian Church on Earth"
- 11.1.2.c. "... in Which Christian Church, for Me and All Believers, He ..."
- 11.2. Lively Spirit - Trustworthy Word
- 11.2.1. Against the Spiritualists ("Enthusiasts")
- 11.2.2. Against Rome
- 11.2.3. Against Erasmus
- 11.3. External Word and Modern Spiritualism
- 11.4. The Triune God Gives Himself Completely in the Spirit
- 12. The Church
- 12.1. The Office of the Word
- 12.2. The Marks of the Church (Notae Ecclesiae)
- 12.2.1. Baptism
- 12.2.2. Confession and Absolution
- 12.2.3. The Lord's Supper
- 12.2.4. The Office Connected with Ordination
- 12.2.5. The Other Offices
- 12.3. The Hiddenness of the Church
- 13. Faith and Good Works
- 13.1. Faith as the Source of Good Works
- 13.2. Free for Servanthood
- 13.3. Metaphysical Advance? - Ethical Advances
- 13.4. Freedom
- 13.4.1. "You Are Called to Freedom!"
- 13.4.2. Following Christ Evangelically
- 13.4.3. Ethics of Discipleship and Ethics of the Table of Duties
- 13.4.4. Appropriate Evangelical Poverty
- 13.4.5. Appropriate Evangelical Chastity
- 13.4.6. Appropriate Evangelical Obedience
- 14. Spiritual and Temporal Rule: God's Two Realms
- 14.1. Pastoral Care Ethics
- 14.2. History of Application, Misunderstandings, and Contrasting Positions
- 14.3. "Temporal Authority: To What Extent It Should Be Obeyed"
- 14.4. A Person Who Is a Christian and a Person Who Holds an Office
- 14.5. Luther's Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount
- 14.6. Ecclesiastical Law
- 14.7. Current Application and Open Questions
- 14.8. Concerning the Relationship between the Teaching about the Two Realms and the Teaching about the Three Estates
- 15. Consummation of the World and God's Triune Nature
- 15.1. Consummation of the World
- 15.1.1. A Double Termination or Reconciliation for All?
- 15.1.2. The Consummation of One's Own Life and the Consummation of the World
- 15.1.3. End of Time
- 15.1.4. Not the Last Thing, but the Last One
- 15.2. God's Triune Nature
- 15.2.1. Setting and Way to Speak about the Triune God
- 15.2.2. Teaching about the Trinity, Distinguished from General Teaching about God
- 15.2.3. The Triune God as Speech Event
- 15.2.4. Time and Eternity
- 15.3. Almighty God - Heavenly Father
- 16. Promise and Prayer
- 16.1. "Thus It Cannot Happen That the Prayer Is Not Answered"
- 16.2. Promise, Dire Need, Faith, Earnestness
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
- Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Literature
