The Difficulty of Interpreting Luther

The Quest for the Luther of History

Lutherus Receptus

Ritschl’s Luther

Von Harnack’s Luther

Troeltsch’s Luther

The Luther Renaissance

The New Finnish School

Criticisms of the Modern Revisions

Luther’s Medieval Background

In Augustine’s Wake: Ecclesiology vs. Soteriology
The Church as Filling Station
Facientibus quod in se est

Luther’s Biography

Birth
Luther the Monk
Luther’s ‘Humanist-Modernist’ Education
Rome
Doctor Luther
Luther’s ‘Turmerlebnis’

The Stages

Dictata super Psalterium: De peccato
Iusititia imputata
Fides reformata
Sola Scriptura
Law and Gospel Hermeneutic

Luther the "Reformer"

Luther the Protestant

Major Publications

Early

Address to the Christian Nobility (August, 1520)
Babylonian Captivity (October, 1520)
Freedom of the Christian Man (November, 1520)
Bondage of the Will (1525)

Later

Grosser Katechismus (1529)
Schmalkald Articles (1537)

Theology

Theological Influences

Scriptura Sacra
Augustine
Tauler and Theologica Germanica
Nominalist Scholasticism

Scripture

Contra Radicals
The Message of SS
The Power of the Word

Doctrine of God: Theologia gloriae et crucis/Deus absconditus et revelatus

Anthropology

Christology

) Christo-centric
b) The Two Natures: Communicatio idiomatum

The Pillars of Luther’s Soteriology

Law and Gospel
Augustine’s Doctrine of Sovereign Grace
Iusitia imputata
Fides reformata

Ecclesiology and Sacraments

Baptism
Supper

The Christian Life: The Two Kingdoms

Eschatology

Conclusion

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