Anderas, Phil. Renovatio : Martin Luther's Augustinian theology of sin, grace and holiness

Folger bibliographic ID: 357940
Folger call number: BR333.5.J8 A534 2019
Folger holdings ID: 506171

Few think of Martin Luther as a theologian of holiness. "Be a sinner and sin boldly," after all - and leave sanctification for Catholics, Orthodox, Finnns and the Reformed. On the basis of close work in the sources, Renovatio advances a revisionist thesis: from the first inklings of his "Augustinian turn" c. 1514 to this death, Luther believed, taught and confessed a robust theology of renewal in holiness. The new, Reformation theology of God's promise (c. 1518) involved significant adjustments in Luther's understanding of justification, but did not alter his commitment to the real renovation of the faithful. Hence the mature Luther's irreducibly trinitarian dogmatics of sin, grace and holiness is "Augustinian" and "evangelical" in equal parts. As such, it commands the regard of theologians who practice their art within traditions stemming from the church's doctor gratiae under the magisterial rule of the gospel --

General notes

Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Marquette University, 2016 Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-337) and index

Contents

Introduction: ""Luther on holiness? That will be a short book" -- Part I: Luther's mature dogmatics of sin, grace & holiness (1535-44) -- Part II. on the place of the "420s Augustine" in Luther's embryonic dogmatics of sin, grace & holiness (winter 1515-16) -- Part III: Reconsiderations

Extended title: Renovatio : Martin Luther's Augustinian theology of sin, grace and holiness / Phil Anderas
Alternate titles: Martin Luther's Augustinian theology of sin, grace and holiness

Luther, Martin, 1483-1546 Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430 Justification (Christian theology) Lutheran Church Philosophical theology

author: Anderas, Phil
subject: Luther, Martin, 1483-1546
subject: Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430