Luther and the Hungry Poor - Couverture rigide

Torvend, Samuel

 
9781532608407: Luther and the Hungry Poor
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1532608403 ISBN 13 : 9781532608407
Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2018

Synopsis

Martin Luther lived in a society in which malnourishment and hunger were widespread. Samuel Torvend estimates ""that at least fifty if not sixty-five percent of the population were living on the edge of subsistence, unsure each day as to where they would find an adequate supply of food to feed themselves and family members."" In the midst of astounding wealth, the present time also witnesses much hunger and malnourishment throughout the world. Torvend claims that Luther, usually considered a reformer of theology, was committed to the reform of society. His theological project issued forth in a social ethic that addressed the growing incidence of hunger and homelessness in his own time. Yet as Luther's fragmentary writings demonstrate, this theological and ethical project was, and continues to be, communicated through the practice of the reformed Mass. Torvend shows that Martin Luther was keenly aware of the needs of the poor. Along with all major interpreters, he too finds the center of Luther's theology in the concept of God's ""alien righteousness,"" the justification of the sinner by God's sheer grace through faith. But he demonstrates that this conviction had profound implications for Luther's understanding of the Christian life. The baptized were made free to live in this world as the ""sacrament"" of the living Christ, to engage this world as Christ had engaged the world of his time.

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À propos de l?auteur

Samuel Torvend is a member of the Department of Religion at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma. He is the author of Daily Bread, Holy Meal: Opening the Gifts of Holy Communion (2004).

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Éditeur
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1532608403
ISBN 13 
9781532608407
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780800662387: Luther and the Hungry Poor: Gathered Fragments

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0800662385 ISBN 13 :  9780800662387
Editeur : Fortress Press,U.S., 2008
Couverture rigide