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The Work of Faith
Divine Grace and Human Agency in Martin Luther's Preaching
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About this book
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. The Work of Faith: Divine Grace and Human Agency in Martin Luther's Preaching offers a different reading of Luther's views on human agency by drawing on a fresh source: Luther's preaching. Using 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.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Ethos unto Death
- Chapter Two: These Divine Words
- Chapter Three: A Believer’s Agency
- Chapter Four: Of Prisons and Palaces
- Chapter Five: Ethos unto Life
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author