God and Mediation: A Retrospective Appraisal of Luther the Reformer - Brossura

O'Callaghan, Paul

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1506410111 ISBN 13: 9781506410111

Casa editrice: Fortress Pr, 2017

Riassunto

Martin Luther's effort to put God at the very center of human life hinged on five principles: sola gratia, sola fide, sola Scriptura, solus Christus, and ecclesia semper reformanda. They formed the basis for a much-needed reformation of the Christian church projected by Luther and others. Besides inspiring an important renewal of Christian life, however, the Reformation also occasioned the breakup of Western Christianity, which in turn justified religious wars, provided an anti-witness to Christian revelation, privatized the faith, and facilitated the secularization of society as a whole. On the occasion of the five hundredth anniversary of the Reformation, this book attempts to appropriate, situate, and to some degree reinterpret Luther's most precious and enduring insights on the basis of the above five principles, which come to mean that God's being and action must always come first. On the basis of Luther's writings, the book also attempts to consider how grace reaches out to freedom, faith to reason, Scripture to church tradition, Christ to ministry, church to mediation. God's being and action always come first, yet God's first gift, creation, and the mediations that derive from it are not undone or rendered irrelevant.

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L'autore:

Paul O'Callaghan is professor of Christian anthropology and director of the Department of Dogmatic Theology and of the Center for Priestly Training at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, as well as a member of the Governing Board of the Pontifical Academy of Theology. He is the author of Children of God in the World (2016), God Ahead of Us (Fortress Press, 2014), Christ Our Hope (2011), The Christological Assimilation of the Apocalypse (2004), and Fides Christi: The Justification Debate (1997), as well as other books and numerous articles. He has also been a participant in the Lutheran-Catholic dialogue on justification and was involved in the preperation of the 1999 doctrine on justification.

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• Editore: Fortress Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1506410111
• ISBN 13: 9781506410111
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 162