Luther's Works, Volume 2 (Genesis Chapters 6-14): 002 - Hardcover

Martin Luther

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0570064023 ISBN 13: 9780570064022

Publisher: Concordia Publishing House, 1960

Synopsis

Luther s Works: The American Edition, published by Concordia and Fortress Press between 1955 and 1986, comprises fifty-five volumes. These are a selection representing only about a third of Luther s works in the Latin and German of the standard Weimar Edition, not including the German Bible. Luther s Lectures on Genesis is a great classic in the filed of theological literature. These dicourses are clear, vigorous, pertinent, and comprehensive. They reveal vast learning as well as extraordinary ability to expound Scripture in a manner that is intelligible to everyone. Regarding style and method, Luther himself states that in his youth he was enchanted by allegories. Consequently, he sometimes resorts to allegorical interpretations when he expounds the Book of Genesis, though always in a manner that is comformable to the faith. Lectures on Genesis: Chapters 6 14 deal with the Flood, with Noah and his descendants, with the Tower of Babel, and wi

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Martin Luther (1483, 1546) was a German monk, a theologian and church reformer, he is considered to be the founder of Protestantism. Luther was a professor of Bible at the University of Wittenberg when he posted his famous 95 Theses (1517). In addition to writing many books, Luther translated the Bible into German. Luther believed that salvation was only by faith in Jesus, unmediated by the church. He challenged papal authority by emphasing the Bible as the only source of religious authority and believed the church to be a priesthood of all believers.These ideas helped to inspire the Protestant Reformation and changed the course of Western civilization. He married Katharina von Bora thus initiating the practice of clerical marriage within Protestantism.- Publisher.

About this edition

• Publisher: Concordia Publishing House
• Publication date: 1960
• ISBN 10: 0570064023
• ISBN 13: 9780570064022
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 433
• Editor: Jaroslav Jan Pelikan, Daniel E Poellot