Renovatio
Martin Luther's Augustinian Theology of Sin, Grace and Holiness
By (author) Phil Anderas Series edited by Herman J. Selderhuis Associate editor Christopher B. Brown Associate editor Günter Frank Associate editor Bruce Gordon Associate editor Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer Associate editor Tarald Rasmussen Associate editor Violet Soen Associate editor Tóth Zsombor Associate editor Günther Wassilowsky Associate editor Siegrid Westphal
Hardback (Published)
(June 2019)
ISBN: 9783525593776
6.34 x 9.25 inches
Price: $150.00
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Once he broke through to his Reformation theology of justification sola fide, did Martin Luther really care about sanctification?
Much mainstream Luther scholarship (and Lutheran theology) holds that Martin Luther downplayed, denied, derided, or just plain ignored “the holiness without which no one shall see the Lord” (Heb. 12:14). Phil Anderas advances a revisionist thesis: from the first inklings of his “Augustinian turn” c. 1514 to his death in 1546, Luther held and taught a robust theology of progressive renewal in holiness, carefully calibrated to the sober reality of residual sin and the astonishing gospel of grace in Jesus Christ. As it is set forth in the works that embody Luther’s most considered judgments (c. 1535-46), this gospel-centered and irreducibly trinitarian dogmatics of real renewal in holiness is “Augustinian” and “evangelical” in equal parts. As such, it commands the regard of theologians who stand in the tradition of the Church’s doctor gratiae. The argument proceeds in three steps: first, an exposition of the mature Luther’s dogmatics of sin, grace, and holiness; second, an investigation of the roots of this dogmatics in the theology of the “420s Augustine,” with whom a younger Luther was busily engaged c. 1514-16; third, an account of the continuities and discontinuities that characterize the development of Luther’s theology from its embryonic state in the mid-1510s through the breakthroughs of the 1518-21 period to the settled position of the old Doctor.
- By (author) Phil Anderas
- Series edited by Herman J. Selderhuis
- Associate editor Christopher B. Brown
- Associate editor Günter Frank
- Associate editor Bruce Gordon
- Associate editor Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer
- Associate editor Tarald Rasmussen
- Associate editor Violet Soen
- Associate editor Tóth Zsombor
- Associate editor Günther Wassilowsky
- Associate editor Siegrid Westphal
Other Titles in this Series
On Becoming a Theologian of the Cross
Revisiting Luther’s theologus crucis from the Heidelberg Disputation to the Genesis Lectures
Constantino de la Fuente (San Clemente, 1502–Seville, 1560)
From acclaimed cathedral preacher to condemned "Lutheran" heretic
Arts, Portraits and Representation in the Reformation Era
Proceedings of the Fourth Reformation Research Consortium Conference
Reformation und Konfessionsbildung in Speyer
Von konfessioneller Unentschiedenheit zum nonkonkordistischen Luthertum im Spannungsfeld von Reichspolitik und bürgerlichem Handeln. Mit Edition der archivalischen Quellen
Lutheran Theology and the shaping of society: The Danish Monarchy as Example
The Danish Monarchy as Example
Beyond Devotion
Religious and Literary Communities in the 16th and 17th Century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Texts and Contexts
Anton Engelbrecht 1487–1556
Eine Biografie und eine vollständige Edition der Acten des sunderlichen sinodums die oberkeit belangend (1533)
From Europe to Overseas
Saints, Martyrs, Heroes, Models and Soft Power in an Early Modern Global Perspective
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