Lutheran Theology

by Paulson, Steven D.

• ISBN13: 9780567482723
• ISBN10: 0567482723
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-14
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

Lutheran theology found its source, and so its name in Martin Luther in the 16th century. The theology that emerged identified two essential matters for the relationship between humans and God, the law and the gospel. It made a simple but extremely unusual and controversial claim-that it was not the law that made a person right before God's final judgment, but the gospel of Christ's death on the cross for sinners. The book will lay out the implications of having all theology, and so all that can be said of God, humans and creation confessed and delivered in two parts: I, the sinner; and God, the justifier.

Table of Contents

Introduction\Chapter 1 The Preacher\Chapter 2 The Sermon\Chapter 3 Life Without a Preacher\Chapter 4 God Preached\Chapter 5 Faith and Promise\Chapter 6 Freedom from Wrath\Chapter 7 Baptism's Freedom from Sin\Chapter 8 Freedom from Law\Chapter 9 Freedom from Death\Chapter 10 The State of the Promise\Chapter 11 The Fruit of Faith\Chapter 12 Temporal Authority\Chapter 13 The Preacher's Sacrifice