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Christ Present in Faith: Luther's View of Justification - Softcover

Tuomo Mannermaa; Kirsi I. Stjerna

 
9780800637118: Christ Present in Faith: Luther's View of Justification
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0800637119 ISBN 13: 9780800637118
Publisher: Fortress Press, 2005

Synopsis

Mannermaa's revisionist work on justification inLuther's theology - a notable contribution from oneof the most influential Finnish scholars of Luther studies - is now available in English. His book opens up newinterpretive questions for historical theology with strikingimplications for ecumenism, ethics, and spirituality.He writes, "the idea of the divine life in Christ which ispresent in faith lies at the very center of the theology of theReformer." He argues that later Lutheran interpretation ofthis teaching has portrayed justification as more mechanicaland forensic than Luther did, underestimated the extentto which God's righteousness is also ours, and obscured theradical personal transformation that Luther attributed tojustification.

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About the Author

Kirsi I. Stjerna is First Lutheran, Los Angeles/Southwest California Synod Professor of Lutheran History and Theology, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary of California Lutheran University, Berkeley, a Core Doctoral Faculty member at Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and a Docent in Helsinki University, Finland. She has authored several books, including Women and the Reformation and Luther, The Bible and the Jewish People (with Brooks Schramm), and Lutheran Theology: A Grammar of Faith. She is one of three general editors of the six-volume The Annotated Luther (Fortress Press).

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Publisher
Fortress Press
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0800637119
ISBN 13 
9780800637118
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
158