Making Sense of Martin Luther
ISBN: 9781506446929
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Imaginary conversations.; Theology Doctrinal;

Making Sense of Martin Luther uses a conversational format to explore how Luther's dynamic understanding of God's life-changing gospel informs day-to-day faith and life in the world today.

Introduction: Luther as Monk, Myth, and Messenger

Chapter 1: The Reluctant Reformer--Introducing "the Monk Who Changed the World"

Chapter 2: Freedom! Justification by Grace through Faith

Chapter 3: The Present-Tense God--Law and Gospel

Chapter 4: The Ambidextrous God--The Two Kingdoms and God's Ongoing Work in the World

Chapter 5: Called for Good--Vocation, Sinning Boldly, and the Respiratory System of the Body of Christ

Chapter 6: God Hidden and Revealed--Luther's Theology of the Cross and the Sacraments

Chapter 7: Semper Simul--Sin, Forgiveness, and "Becoming Christian"

Accompanying leader guide and DVD are available.

David J. Lose is senior pastor of Mount Olivet

Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Prior to this call, he served as president of The

Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia.

He also taught preaching and served as

academic dean at Luther Seminary, and has

written three other books in the Making Sense

series (Augsburg Fortress).

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