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The Continuing Significance Of Luther's Prefaces To The New Testament, Werner Georg Kuemmel
The Continuing Significance Of Luther's Prefaces To The New Testament, Werner Georg Kuemmel
Concordia Theological Monthly
When Martin Luther published his first translation of the New Testament into the German language in 1522, he did not publish the Biblical texts alone. He provided his readers with some help by prefaces to the whole New Testament and to the individual books. These prefaces were reprinted in all the following editions of the New Testament and of the whole Bible until the 17th century, but Luther took one of them out and changed the text of a few of them in later editions.
Salvation By Grace: The Heart Of Job's Theology, Alfred Von Rohr Sauer
Salvation By Grace: The Heart Of Job's Theology, Alfred Von Rohr Sauer
Concordia Theological Monthly
God desires that anyone who fears Him and serves Him should do that gratis, for nothing. Serving God for nothing, fearing God for nothing-that is the theme that runs through the Book of Job. In the prologue (Chs. 1-2) the author states that Job was a man who feared God and eschewed evil. The lord also told Satan in the prologue that His servant Job was a man who feared God and shunned wickedness. So Job was considered a pious, God-fearing man; there was no question about that, even Satan conceded that point. The question, however, was this: What was …
The Exegetical Basis For The Early Lutheran Doctrine Of Baptismal Regeneration, Martim Warth
The Exegetical Basis For The Early Lutheran Doctrine Of Baptismal Regeneration, Martim Warth
Master of Sacred Theology Thesis
This thesis was motivated by the question often raised in the classroom about the relation of faith to the regeneration in baptism. The question can be formulated in many ways. Is faith the presupposition for regeneration? What difference is there between faith and regeneration? Must faith precede baptism? What type of faith is given in baptism? What is faith without understanding of the Word of God? If baptism regenerates the infants who do not have preceding faith, what does baptism effect in the adult who already has faith? Can we still speak of regeneration in adult baptism? Or is baptism …