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Luther's Two Kinds Of Righteousness And His Wartbug Postil, Makito Masaki
Luther's Two Kinds Of Righteousness And His Wartbug Postil, Makito Masaki
Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation
This study discusses how Luther exhorted people to live the Christian life. Luther understood the Christian life as a life of the saved sinner in himself and in his community. He understood that Christians live lives defined by two kinds of righteousness; that is, righteousness that God bestows, and righteousness that they produce. This study will be carried out by reviewing this basic understanding of what the Christian life is, and by examining Luther's preaching material, specifically a set of sermonic writings called The Wartburg Postil. The thesis of this survey is that in The Wartburg Postil, Luther used the …