Christ Present In Faith: Luther's View Of Justification

Kirsi Irmeli Stjerna, Tuomo Mannermaa

ISBN 10: 0800637119 / ISBN 13: 9780800637118

Published by Fortress Press, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Christ Present In Faith: Luther's View Of Justification
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0800637119
• ISBN 13: 9780800637118
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Mannermaa's revisionist work on justification inLuther's theology - a notable contribution from oneof the most influential Finnish scholars of Luther studies - is now available in English. His book opens up newinterpretive questions for historical theology with strikingimplications for ecumenism, ethics, and spirituality.

He writes, "the idea of the divine life in Christ which ispresent in faith lies at the very center of the theology of theReformer." He argues that later Lutheran interpretation ofthis teaching has portrayed justification as more mechanicaland forensic than Luther did, underestimated the extentto which God's righteousness is also ours, and obscured theradical personal transformation that Luther attributed tojustification.

About the Authors

Tuomo Mannermaawas Emeritus Emeritus Professor of Ecumenical Theology at the University of Helsinki.

Kirsi I. Stjerna is First Lutheran, Los Angeles/Southwest California Synod Professor of Lutheran History and Theology, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary of California Lutheran University, Berkeley, a Core Doctoral Faculty member at Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and a Docent in Helsinki University, Finland. She has authored several books, including Women and the Reformation and Luther, The Bible and the Jewish People (with Brooks Schramm), and Lutheran Theology: A Grammar of Faith. She is one of three general editors of the six-volume The Annotated Luther (Fortress Press).