Martin Luther's Theology
, by Bayer, Oswald
- ISBN: 9780802827999 | 0802827993
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 10/16/2008
It may come as a surprise to some, but Martin Luther never wrote a "theology." He delivered his theological thought in myriad ways - lectures, preaching notes, arguments, fables, hymns, and more - but never penned a systematic theology. Having scoured Luther's voluminous corpus, Oswald Bayer here reimages Luther's theology and its validity for today. The fruit of Bayer's lifelong engagement with the Reformer, Martin Luther's Theology: A Contemporary Interpretation will serve as the best comprehensive introduction to Luther's thought for a long time. Book jacket.
Oswald Bayer is professor emeritus of systematic theology at the University of Tubingen. The author of several books in German, he is also an ordained pastor of the Lutheran Church of Wurttemberg and president of the senate of the Luther Academy in Ratzeburg
| Translator's Preface | p. xii |
| Preface | p. xv |
| Abbreviations | p. xxii |
| Introduction: The Rupture between Ages | p. 1 |
| Between the New and Old Aeon | p. 1 |
| In Spite of Evil | p. 2 |
| The Crucified One and the Message from the Cross | p. 6 |
| Personal Story and the World History | p. 8 |
| Apocalyptic and Courage to Live | p. 9 |
| Hidden and Revealed God | p. 11 |
| Basic Themes (Prolegomena) | |
| Every Person Is a Theologian: Luther's Understanding of Theology | p. 15 |
| What Is a Theologian? | p. 15 |
| Gratia Spiritus (Grace of the Spirit) | p. 17 |
| Tentatio (Agonizing Struggle) | p. 20 |
| Experientia (Experience) | p. 21 |
| Occasio (Opportunity) | p. 22 |
| Sedula Lectio (Constant, Concentrated Textual Study) | p. 25 |
| Bonarum Artium Cognitio (Knowledge and Practice of the Academic Disciplines) | p. 26 |
| Habitus [characters not reproducible] (God-given Skill) | p. 27 |
| The Topic of Theology: The Sinning Human Being and the Justifying God | p. 29 |
| Sapientia Experimentalis (Experiential Wisdom) | p. 30 |
| Oratio (Prayer) | p. 32 |
| Meditatio (Meditation on the Text) | p. 34 |
| Tentatio (Agonizing Struggle) | p. 35 |
| Subiectum Theologiae (The Subject of Theology) | p. 37 |
| Vita Passiva: Faith | p. 42 |
| What Does "Evangelical" Mean? The Reformational Turning Point in Luther's Theology | p. 44 |
| Perspective of the Question | p. 45 |
| Promissio as Speech Act That Frees and Gives Confidence | p. 50 |
| Statements That Establish and That Constitute | p. 50 |
| "Ego Te Absolvo!" (I Absolve You!) | p. 52 |
| Promissio as the Center | p. 53 |
| The Question concerning Competence | p. 54 |
| Summary | p. 55 |
| The Distinction between Law and Gospel | p. 58 |
| The Sequence | p. 62 |
| Christ as Gift and Example | p. 63 |
| Antinomianism and Nomism Today | p. 65 |
| Knowledge and Certainty | p. 66 |
| What Makes the Bible Become Holy Scripture? | p. 68 |
| The Priority of the Scripture over the Hearers and Interpreters | p. 68 |
| Church: Communion of Hearers | p. 72 |
| The Self-Disclosure of the Holy Scripture by Means of Law and Gospel | p. 74 |
| Spirit and Letter | p. 77 |
| "What Drives Christ Home" | p. 81 |
| The Three Fronts for Luther's Understanding of Scripture | p. 83 |
| Against the Skeptical Humanism of Erasmus of Rotterdam | p. 83 |
| Against the Formalism Advocated by Rome | p. 85 |
| Against the Spiritualizing Enthusiasts | p. 88 |
| The Relationship between the Old and New Testaments | p. 90 |
| "My Katie von Bora" | p. 91 |
| Individual Themes (Specific Elements of Dogmatics and Ethics) | |
| Creation: Establishment and Preservation of Community | p. 95 |
| Without Word, No World | p. 95 |
| Justification as Creation; Creation as Justification | p. 95 |
| Creation as Speech Act | p. 101 |
| God's Nature as the One Who Comes Beforehand | p. 105 |
| "Be Opened!" | p. 106 |
| Unable to Communicate | p. 106 |
| Word of Power in Sighing | p. 112 |
| "Natural Theology"? | p. 114 |
| Consummation of the World as Reestablishment of the Creation | p. 116 |
| The Order of the World: Church, Household, State | p. 120 |
| Main Features of the Teaching about the Three Estates | p. 122 |
| Church as Order of Creation | p. 126 |
| Reasonable Knowledge of God | p. 127 |
| True Belief in the Creator | p. 130 |
| God and Idol | p. 135 |
| Certainty Is Concrete | p. 136 |
| Household and State | p. 140 |
| The Spiritual Importance of the Temporal | p. 140 |
| Family and Marriage | p. 142 |
| State | p. 147 |
| Love as Criterion | p. 152 |
| The Human Being: In the Image of God | p. 154 |
| The Essence of the Human Being in Faith | p. 155 |
| Human Reason - "Almost Something Divine" | p. 158 |
| "... Created Me Together with All Creatures" | p. 163 |
| Faith in God the Giver | p. 166 |
| Summary | p. 166 |
| Development | p. 168 |
| The Response | p. 173 |
| The Amen | p. 173 |
| The Human Heart - a Place for Making Pictures | p. 174 |
| Sin and the Bound Will | p. 177 |
| The Perversion of the Human Being in Unbelief: Sin | p. 177 |
| Basic Definition | p. 179 |
| Differentiation within the Basic Definition | p. 181 |
| Turning Away from God; Curved in on the Self | p. 182 |
| The Bound Will | p. 185 |
| The "Inherited" Sin | p. 192 |
| Ridden by the Devil | p. 194 |
| God's Wrath and Evil | p. 196 |
| God's Understandable Wrath | p. 196 |
| God's Incomprehensible Wrath | p. 198 |
| God's Complete Efficacy Even in the Sinner | p. 199 |
| Evil or the Evil One; "God as Devil" | p. 201 |
| The Concept of Omnipotence and Form of Address | p. 206 |
| The Stronger and Weaker Concepts of Omnipotence | p. 206 |
| "Permission": Universal Talk about a Suffering God | p. 206 |
| The Wrath of God as the Opposite Side of His Love | p. 208 |
| Double Predestination | p. 209 |
| Form of Speech | p. 210 |
| The "Three Lights" | p. 211 |
| "Through the Son, Our Lord": God as Mercy and Love | p. 214 |
| "Dear Christians, One and All, Rejoice" | p. 214 |
| The "Happy Exchange" | p. 225 |
| "I Believe That Jesus Christ ... Is My Lord" | p. 230 |
| Faith in Christ the Lord | p. 230 |
| Christ's Nature Is His Work - Christ's Work Is His Nature | p. 232 |
| Communication of Attributes and Facing Outward | p. 234 |
| God's Presence: The Holy Spirit | p. 239 |
| "I Believe": "The Holy Spirit Has Called Me through the Gospel" | p. 239 |
| "I Believe That I Cannot ..." | p. 240 |
| "... but the Holy Spirit" | p. 241 |
| "... Has Called Me through the Gospel" | p. 241 |
| "... Just as He Calls the Whole Christian Church on Earth" | p. 244 |
| "... in Which Christian Church, for Me and All Believers, He ..." | p. 245 |
| Lively Spirit - Trustworthy Word | p. 246 |
| Against the Spiritualists ("Enthusiasts") | p. 246 |
| Against Rome | p. 247 |
| Against Erasmus | p. 248 |
| External Word and Modern Spiritualism | p. 249 |
| The Triune God Gives Himself Completely in the Spirit | p. 254 |
| The Church | p. 255 |
| The Office of the Word | p. 257 |
| The Marks of the Church (Notae Ecclesiae) | p. 259 |
| Baptism | p. 264 |
| Confession and Absolution | p. 269 |
| The Lord's Supper | p. 270 |
| The Office Connected with Ordination | p. 273 |
| The Other Offices | p. 276 |
| The Hiddenness of the Church | p. 278 |
| Faith and Good Works | p. 282 |
| Faith as the Source of Good Works | p. 282 |
| Free for Servanthood | p. 288 |
| Metaphysical Advance? - Ethical Advances | p. 290 |
| Freedom | p. 294 |
| "You Are Called to Freedom!" | p. 294 |
| Following Christ Evangelically | p. 296 |
| Ethics of Discipleship and Ethics of the Table of Duties | p. 299 |
| Appropriate Evangelical Poverty | p. 303 |
| Appropriate Evangelical Chastity | p. 305 |
| Appropriate Evangelical Obedience | p. 305 |
| Spiritual and Temporal Rule: God's Two Realms | p. 309 |
| Pastoral Care Ethics | p. 309 |
| History of Application, Misunderstandings, and Contrasting Positions | p. 311 |
| "Temporal Authority: To What Extent It Should Be Obeyed" | p. 313 |
| A Person Who Is a Christian and a Person Who Holds an Office | p. 318 |
| Luther's Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount | p. 319 |
| Ecclesiastical Law | p. 321 |
| Current Application and Open Questions | p. 322 |
| Concerning the Relationship between the Teaching about the Two Realms and the Teaching about the Three Estates | p. 324 |
| Consummation of the World and God's Triune Nature | p. 326 |
| Consummation of the World | p. 326 |
| A Double Termination or Reconciliation for All? | p. 326 |
| The Consummation of One's Own Life and the Consummation of the World | p. 327 |
| End of Time | p. 330 |
| Not the Last Thing, but the Last One | p. 333 |
| God's Triune Nature | p. 334 |
| Setting and Way to Speak about the Triune God | p. 334 |
| Teaching about the Trinity, Distinguished from General Teaching about God | p. 337 |
| The Triune God as Speech Event | p. 340 |
| Time and Eternity | p. 342 |
| Almighty God - Heavenly Father | p. 343 |
| Promise and Prayer | p. 346 |
| "Thus It Cannot Happen That the Prayer Is Not Answered" | p. 348 |
| Promise, Dire Need, Faith, Earnestness | p. 351 |
| Index of Names | p. 355 |
| Index of Subjects | p. 359 |
| Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Literature | p. 371 |
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