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1) Pontoon
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Astonished to learn that her impeccable mother led a secret life marked by her passionate love for a Las Vegas man and a private commitment to pleasure, Barbara elects to end destructive patterns in her own life while honoring her mother's final wishes.
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This booklet introduces readers to the Augsburg Confession, one of the most important charters of Christian liberty. From the time of its appearance in the sixteenth century to this day, the Augsburg Confession connects back to the first Christians and shows how the Bible can be read and Christian life can be lived today. You will see how the gospel enlivens all aspects of the life of faith and the mission of the church.
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Los GuíaBurros son manuales básicos para aprender a utilizar una herramienta, realizar una actividad o adquirir un conocimiento determinado de manera sencilla y fácil.
GuíaBurros Protestantismo, historia de los movimientos protestantes. Desde Martín Lutero, Felipe Melanchthon, y Thomas Müntzer, pasando por el Anglicanismo, hasta la Iglesia bautista, los Evangélicos, los Pentecostales, los Adventistas, los Testigos de Jehová y los Mormones....
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Can a Lutheran be sociopolitically radical? Can a radical be theologically and faithfully Lutheran? This book answers yes.
Written by teacher-scholars from five ELCA colleges, Radical Lutherans/Lutheran Radicals follows Martin Luther, Soren Kierkegaard, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Dorothee Soelle, and others as they sink deep roots in the Lutheran Christian tradition while simultaneously resisting the status quo with their words, their deeds, and sometimes...
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¿Sigue importando la Reforma?
En 1517, un monje alemán clavó un cartel a la puerta de una iglesia, en el que se impugnaban las doctrinas prioritarias que enseñaba la iglesia católico romana en aquellos días. Ese momento inició un movimiento que cambió toda la trayectoria de la historia de la iglesia. Pero, ¿tienen aún los reformadores algo que enseñarnos?
En este accesible manual básico, Tim Chester y Michael Reeves responden...
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We hear from the Apostle Peter that Christians should always be ready to give a confession of the hope that is in them and to defend their faith in an ever-changing world.
Originally delivered as an address at a synod convention in 1902, Das Wesen des Christentums or What is Christianity? was written by pastor and professor Francis Pieper.
In What is Christianity: Faith and Morality Reconsidered, Pieper takes up Peter's task against those who would...
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The Theology of the Cross is one of the core elements of Martin Luther's theology. The development of this doctrine through the Heidelberg Disputation has been considered an essential element of Luther's breakthrough on justification, and crucial to his theological reforms and future split with the Roman Catholic Church.
These statements by Luther, originally penned to be defended in debate, are counter-intuitive, contrary, offensive, and thrilling...
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Will the real Martin Luther please stand up? After five hundred years of examining the life of the 'father of the Reformation,' we must surely know all there is to know about Martin Luther. But is that true? Did he really nail his Ninety-Five Theses to the church door? Did he throw an inkpot at the devil? Did he plant an apple tree? Did his wife escape her convent in a herring barrel? German radio and television journalist Andreas Malessa looks at...
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The place and significance of Martin Luther in the long history of Christian anti-Jewish polemic has been and continues to be a contested issue. The literature on the subject is substantial, and diverse. While efforts to exonerate Luther as "merely" a man of his times who "merely" perpetuated what he had received from his cultural and theological tradition have rightly been jettisoned, there still persists even among the educated public the perception...
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Die Confessio Augustana auch Augsburger Bekenntnis oder Augsburger Konfession, ist ein grundlegendes Bekenntnis der lutherischen Reichsstände zu ihrem Glauben. Sie wurde am 25. Juni 1530 auf dem Reichstag zu Augsburg Kaiser Karl V. von den Reichsständen der lutherischen Reformation dargelegt. Sie war Basistext der Religionsgespräche, Grundlage des Schmalkaldischen Bundes, Toleranzgrundlage des Augsburger Religionsfriedens und gehört noch heute...
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On all Hallow's Eve in 1517, a young monk named Martin Luther posted a document he hoped would spark an academic debate. Instead, it ignited a conglagration. Five hundred years after Luther's now famous Ninety-five Theses appeared, Eric Metazas paints a startling portrait of the wild figure whose adamantine faith cracked the edifice of Western Christendom and dragged medieval Europe into the future. Written in riveting prose and impeccably researched,...
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How shall we live? What is the good life? What is the value of a person? What is my place in this world? Is God active in this world? These are questions that have been asked in every culture and in every era. From the Hebrew concept of Shalom (wholeness/well-being) to the Greek concept of Eudaimonia (happiness) and even to the American notion that all people have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, great thinkers have pondered...
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"In 1928, 16-year-old Minka was on a picnic in the woods when she was assaulted and raped [and became pregnant]. The baby was secretly born, named Betty Jane, and given up for adoption. For decades, Minka wrote letters trying to get news of her daughter; she kept loving and praying for her, even though she never dared believe they would meet again. Until nearly eighty years later, when Minka whispered [a] secret, impossible prayer for the first time...
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A stirring defense of the faith by one of Christianity's ablest defenders, this is a re-issue of the classic "History and Christianity" expanded to include Dr. Montgomery's essay "Christianity Juridical Defended."
Dr. John Montgomery, scholar, theologian and apologist for the faith, developed this book from a seminar he presented at the University of British Columbia. Readable and convincing, the book is divided into four sections:
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The development of Martin Luther's thought has commanded much scholarly attention because of the Reformation and its remarkable effects on the history of Christianity in the West. But, much of that scholarship has been, so enthralled by certain later debates that it has practically ignored and even distorted the context in and against which Luther's thought developed. In The Early Luther Berndt Hamm, armed with expertise both in late, medieval intellectual...
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This work includes thirteen sermons by Martin Luther who aptly exposits passages of the Passion of Christ from Matthew, Luke, and John. Reading these short sermons will center the believer's heart on the work that Jesus did on the cross to bear the wrath due to our sins.
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What is it to "do theology"? Numerous conflicting and inadequate answers (e. g., Bultmannian existentialism, the post Bultmannian "New Hermeneutic") hold the field today these have in common a basic misunderstanding as to the relation of theological theologizing to theory construction in other fields of knowledge, and a fundamental misconception in regard to the proper way of confirming or disconfirming theological judgments. In this essay, a detailed...
20) The Alien and the Proper: Luther's Two-Fold Righteousness in Controversy, Ministry, and Citizenship
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"This book probes the beating theological heart of Luther's evangelical theology." - Michael J. Chan, Ph.D., Concordia College
In his Galatians commentary of 1535, Martin Luther insists that"our theology" relies on the proper distinction of two kinds of righteousness: Alien and Proper. In relation to our Creator, we freely receive our"alien" righteousness from Christ who has obtained it for us through his death and resurrection. In relation...
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