Work of Faith
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ethics
human agency
moral theology
philosophy of language
preaching
reformation studies
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- ISBN 9781978709638
- Weight: 463g
- Dimensions: 164 x 232mm
- Publication Date: 31 Aug 2020
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Many scholars assume that Luther advocates for a Christian life in which human beings are always passive recipients of God’s grace as it is delivered in preaching, and mere instruments through which God works to serve their neighbors. The Work of Faith: Divine Grace and Human Agency in Martin Luther's Preaching offers a different reading of Luther’s views on human agency by drawing on a fresh source: Luther’s preaching. Using Luther’s sermons in the Church Postil as a primary source, Justin Nickel argues that Martin Luther preached as though Christians have real, if secondary, agency in the lives they lead before God and neighbor. As a result, Nickel presents a Luther substantively concerned with how Christians lead their lives.
Justin Nickel is the Baxter Weant and Frances assistant professor of Lutheran Studies at Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary of Lenoir-Rhyne University.
