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The Work of Faith: Divine Grace and Human Agency in Martin Luther's Preaching
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The Work of Faith: Divine Grace and Human Agency in Martin Luther's Preaching
Yazar:
Nickel, Justin Michael, author.
ISBN:
9780438097575
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1 electronic resource (266 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A.
Advisors: John R. Bowlin Committee members: Kenneth Appold; William S. Johnson; Lois Malcolm.
Özet:
This dissertation argues that, contrary to a common picture, Martin Luther preaches as though Christians have real, if secondary, agency with respect to their lives before God and neighbor. In his sermons, Luther describes this agency in great detail, providing many of the concepts and norms by which we are able to pick out this agency and distinguish it from other ways of being in the world. These concepts include the ends, relationships, obligations, and passions which, when added together, amount to a robust understanding of Christian agency. Likewise, I treat Luther's own rhetorical techniques and preaching style as an occasion of his own agency, showing the ends he seeks through his preaching and the various techniques he uses to accomplish these ends. Justification---God's gift of redemption to undeserving sinners---does not end our agency but sets it in motion towards a God-pleasing life. My argument unfolds in the following way. First, I attend to a common reading of Luther, noting the way this reading pits justification by faith against robust accounts of the Christian life and agency. I argue that this wholly competitive account is not self-generating but has its roots in the way that preaching---which delivers Christ's mercy to sinners---is understood. Accordingly, chapter two takes up the way that various Lutheran theologians have described preaching in general and Luther's practice in particular. Chapters three and four turn to a collection of Luther's sermons, The Church Postil. In these chapters, I perform a number of close readings on Luther's texts, with attention to the way he describes and so prescribes Christian activity. Chapter three focuses on activities that help create and sustain Christian faith. Chapter four focuses on the Christian's relationship to the law, and through it, the neighbor. Finally, chapter five gathers all these insights together into a distinctly Lutheran understanding of human agency and the moral life.
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School code: 0182
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