Recent anthropological, linguistic, and philosophical studies have significantly increased our understanding of the gift and related phenomena, such as hospitality and charity. While their results can only very carefully be applied to historical theological sources, they do resemble classical discussions on neighbourly love, the administration of sacraments, the handing over of tradition, free will, and God's mercy.
In this book, Risto Saarinen studies Martin Luther's understanding of the gift and related issues, such as favours and benefits, faith and justification, virtues and merits, ethics and doctrine, law and Christ. The historical motivation behind this focus consists in the insight that Luther both continues and criticizes the classical, medieval, and Humanist discussions regarding the differences and parallels between gifts and sales. This historical understanding paves the way towards an adequate systematic theology of the gift.
| ISBN: | 9783161549700 |
| Publication date: | 12th June 2017 |
| Author: | Risto Saarinen |
| Publisher: | Mohr Siebeck |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 323 pages |
| Series: | Spatmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation / Studies in the Late Middle Ages, Humanism and the Reformation |
| Genres: |
Protestantism and Protestant Churches Theology Christianity |
Recent anthropological, linguistic, and philosophical studies have significantly increased our understanding of the gift and related phenomena, such as hospitality and charity. While their results can only very carefully be applied to historical theological sources, they do resemble classical discussions on neighbourly love, the administration of sacraments, the handing over of tradition, free will, and God's mercy.
In this book, Risto Saarinen studies Martin Luther's understanding of the gift and related issues, such as favours and benefits, faith and justification, virtues and merits, ethics and doctrine, law and Christ. The historical motivation behind this focus consists in the insight that Luther both continues and criticizes the classical, medieval, and Humanist discussions regarding the differences and parallels between gifts and sales. This historical understanding paves the way towards an adequate systematic theology of the gift.
Luther and the Gift features in the following genres: Protestantism and Protestant Churches, Theology, Christianity
Luther and the Gift is available in Hardback
Luther and the Gift was written by Risto Saarinen and published by Mohr Siebeck
Luther and the Gift has 323 pages
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