Grace and gratitude : spirituality in Martin Luther / edited and with commentary by Roger Haight, SJ, Alfred Pach III, and Amanda Avila Kaminski.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- I Introduction to Luther and the Texts -- II The Texts -- Selection from Luther's Lectures on Galatians (1535) -- The Freedom of a Christian -- III Grace and Gratitude: Appropriating Luther's Spirituality Today -- Further Reading -- About the Series -- About the Editors

Martin Luther (1483-1546) is a classic Christian author who spearheaded the Reformation and whose witness has relevance for life in the present-day world. Grace and Gratitude presents two texts that represent his spirituality. Because Luther wrote so much in so many different genres, the choice of only two texts provides a limited taste of his spirituality. But they open up a specific, central, and distinctive mark of his conception of the structure of Christian life. The name of the theme, justification by grace through faith, often spontaneously correlates with Luther's name and his theology. The phrase points to a key theological doctrine that centered his thinking; it lay so deeply ingrained in his outlook that it sometimes explicitly but always tacitly shaped all his early theological views and bestowed a distinctive character to his ethics and spirituality. The two texts are chosen to illustrate how the conviction represented by the phrase draws its authority from scripture, especially Paul, and was discursively analyzed in an early foundational work on Christian life, The Freedom of a Christian. These texts do not represent all there is to say about spirituality in Luther's thought by any means, and this part should not be taken for the whole. But the coupling of these texts penetrates deeply into what may be called Luther's Christian spirituality of gratitude.

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