A World-Class Scholar on Luther's Use of ScriptureThe Reformation revolutionized church life through its new appreciation for God's presence working through the Bible. Coinciding with the five hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation, this volume explains how Luther's approach to the Bible drew his colleagues and contemporary followers into a Scripture-centered practice of theology and pastoral leadership. World-class scholar Robert Kolb examines t...

Luther's oft-recounted life made a profound impact on his contemporaries. Some revered him; some hated him. This volume provides a brief narrative of the unfolding events that took place from his birth to a young entrepreneurial family through his turbulent career as university professor and public figure to his death while on a mission to reconcile a feuding princely family. Following parts of this narrative come "interviews" with friends and foes of his time, taken from a variety of sixt...

In conversations about the Reformation, the name Martin Luther towers above all others. And rightly so. His work, vision, and writings set Christianity on a course of events that would forever change the way that most believers live and understand their faith. And yet, the Reformation was far more than Martin Luther. Around Luther were hundreds of people - fellow teachers and priests, politicians, artists, printers, and spouses - without whose activity and work the Reformation would have p...

This book analyzes Luther’s treatise On Christian Freedom and its revolutionary re-definition of what it means to be Christian as one freed by Christ from sin, the accusation of God’s law, and death in order to be bound or bonded to the neighbor. Robert Kolb puts the treatise in its historical context, tracing its key ideas as they developed out of his medieval background, and as they continued to mature throughout his life. A contextual analysis of the text accompanies an overview of how ...

This overview of Luther's thought proceeds from the perspective of his use of the Latin preposition coram, "face-to-face with." Preeminent Luther scholar Robert Kolb proposes that under Luther's use of dominant ancient concepts of reality in his day, he placed the foundation of relationships. These relationships included the fundamental relationship of the Creator with every person and thing he made, along with all those relationships stemming from ordering his creation by his cre...

A study of Martin Luther's legacy explains how the view of Luther as prophet, teacher, and hero shaped the thought and action of his followers.

Given a life spent in scholarship and controversy, it is easy to forget how much energy Martin Luther devoted to helping the common person understand and take comfort from Gods word. This commitment extended to even the most challenging of biblical texts, and nowhere is this more apparent than Luthers work on the lament psalms. Difficult to understand, and perhaps even more difficult to implement in life and devotion, the lament psalms played a key role in Luthers thought. More importantly...

Cette “Théorie du ius cogens international” tente d’élaborer les bases d’une réflexion approfondie et d’une reconstruction nouvelle de cette notion ayant atteint une importance considérable dans la pratique et le droit internationaux. Dans un premier temps, elle offre une revue méticuleuse des théories existantes mettant en lumière leurs implications. Elle essaye, dans un deuxième temps, de reconstruire la notion de droit impératif à partir de la tradition juridique générale. Le ius cogens...

Als Melanchthon 1530 in der 'Confessio Augustana' die zentralen Punkte der evangelisch-lutherischen Lehre unter dem Begriff des Bekenntnisses zusammenfasste, führte dies zur Formulierung einer Reihe von Bekenntnisschriften innerhalb der reformatorischen Kirchen. In dem Versuch, die Kontroversen um die Interpretation des Augsburger Bekenntnisses zu beenden und die zerstrittenen Kirchen zu einen, entstand 1577 die 'Konkordienformel', die als Zusammenfassung der Glaubensgrundsätze Teil des Ka...

Martin Luther read and preached the biblical text as the record of God addressing real, flesh-and-blood people and their daily lives. He used stories to drive home his vision of the Christian life, a life that includes struggling against temptation, enduring suffering, praising God in worship and prayer, and serving one's neighbor in response to God's callings and commands. Leading Lutheran scholar Robert Kolb highlights Luther's use of storytelling in his preaching and teaching to show ho...

La question de la bonne foi repose sur des problèmes fondamentaux et permanents de chaque ordre juridique. Il faut distinguer ses diverses composantes. La bonne foi subjective a trait à l’ignorance d’un fait excusée par le droit. La bonne foi objective constitue un principe général de droit. Il vise surtout la protection de la confiance légitime. Il peut viser aussi la protection de certaines finalités communes contre les détournements motivés par une place excessive faite aux seuls intérê...

Galvanized by Erasmus' teaching on free will, Martin Luther wrote De servo arbitrio, or The Bondage of the Will, insisting that the sinful human will could not turn itself to God. In this first study to investigate the sixteenth-century reception of De servo, Robert Kolb unpacks Luther's theology and recounts his followers' ensuing disputes until their resolution in the Lutheran churches' 1577 Formula of Concord.