UPDATE: I promised an update after I read the book. Before I read the book I wasn’t sure what this was and if the author would be true to Luther’s writing.
Well, the author is Martin Luther with a simple forward written by Carl R. Trueman. It is part of a nine volume series called, The Crossway Short Classics and introduces a new generation of readers to classic works of the faith in travel-size booklets. Each volume applies profound biblical wisdom to issues such as depression, sin, and temptation. Includes the best works from legendary theologians like J.C. Ryle, Jonathan Edwards, Henry Scougal, Francis A. Schaeffer, Charles Spurgeon, Thomas Chalmers, and B.B. Warfield on the Christian life.
The series does not change the original writings but in some instances like Luther’s book is “Translated from the original German by world-renowned scholar Robert Kolb”.
Luther was so pivotal in the reformation who through his words and actions precipitated a movement that reformulated certain basic tenets of Christian belief and resulted in the division of Western Christendom between Roman Catholicism and the new Protestant traditions.
Martin Luther was one of the most important figures in the history of the Christian church especially Protestantism. His insights were both ecclesiastical -- involving separation from the Roman Catholic Church -- and theological. The major areas of reform in his theology for which he continues to be known are:
- He emphasized salvation by grace rather than through ritual or works. You cannot buy or earn your salvation. No priest or pastor can give it to you. “For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. “(Eph. 2:8-9.)
- The "right and duty of private judgment". He thought that believers should be able to read the Bible for themselves in the vernacular and interpret it themselves rather than learning about theology only through the church tradition. Luther was instrumental in translated the Bible from Hebrew to German for the people of Germany. Prior to that time most every Bible (and not available to the masses) was in Latin. Although German translations of the New Testament existed prior to Luther’s version, but those referenced the Latin Vulgate—the official Bible of the Catholic Church which Luther criticized in his Theses. The first complete Luther Bible translation was printed in 1534 in German.
- Luther disagreed with the selling of indulgences and the elements of the doctrine of Purgatory that those indulgences made possible. The selling of Indulgences are positively harmful to the recipient because they impede salvation by diverting charity and inducing a false sense of security. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteous.” (I John 1:9). Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, (Acts 3:19)
- Luther believed in consubstantiation rather than transubstantiation in the Eucharist and elimination of the reserved Host. (While the "trans" in transubstantiation means to "change", the "con" in consubstantiation means "with." In this way, we can see that the difference between transubstantiation and consubstantiation is that one denomination (Roman Catholic) believes a literal change occurs during Communion, while other (Protestants) do not.)
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- He emphasized salvation by grace rather than through ritual or works. You cannot buy or earn your salvation. No priest or pastor can give it to you. “For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. “(Eph. 2:8-9.)
- The "right and duty of private judgment". He thought that believers should be able to read the Bible for themselves in the vernacular and interpret it themselves rather than learning about theology only through the church tradition. Luther was instrumental in translated the Bible from Hebrew to German for the people of Germany. Prior to that time most every Bible (and not available to the masses) was in Latin. Although German translations of the New Testament existed prior to Luther’s version, but those referenced the Latin Vulgate—the official Bible of the Catholic Church which Luther criticized in his Theses. The first complete Luther Bible translation was printed in 1534 in German.
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