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Many scholars assume that Luther advocates for a Christian life in which human beings are always passive recipients of God’s grace as it is delivered in preaching, and mere instruments through which God works to serve their neighbors. This book offers a different reading of Luther’s views on human agency by drawing on a fresh source: Luther’s preaching. Drawing on Luther’s sermons in the Church Postil as a primary source, Justin Nickel argues that Martin Luther preached as though Christians have real, if secondary, agency in the lives they lead before God and neighbor. As a result, Nickel presents a Luther substantively concerned with how Christians lead their lives.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Ethos unto Death

Chapter 2 These Divine Words

Chapter 3 A Believer’s Agency

Chapter 4 Of Prisons and Palaces

Chapter 5 Ethos unto Life

Epilogue: A Tale of Two Luthers

The Work of Faith: Divine Grace and Human Agency

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      Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
      Publication Date: 31/08/2020
      ISBN13: 9781978709638, 978-1978709638
      ISBN10: 1978709633

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Many scholars assume that Luther advocates for a Christian life in which human beings are always passive recipients of God’s grace as it is delivered in preaching, and mere instruments through which God works to serve their neighbors. This book offers a different reading of Luther’s views on human agency by drawing on a fresh source: Luther’s preaching. Drawing on Luther’s sermons in the Church Postil as a primary source, Justin Nickel argues that Martin Luther preached as though Christians have real, if secondary, agency in the lives they lead before God and neighbor. As a result, Nickel presents a Luther substantively concerned with how Christians lead their lives.

      Table of Contents
      Chapter 1 Ethos unto Death

      Chapter 2 These Divine Words

      Chapter 3 A Believer’s Agency

      Chapter 4 Of Prisons and Palaces

      Chapter 5 Ethos unto Life

      Epilogue: A Tale of Two Luthers

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