Everyone’s Luther: Genesis Chapter Three Commentary
One of the most important chapters in the Bible, Genesis three teaches us about humanity’s fall into sin and the Lord’s first promise of redemption....
Category: Martin Luther
Martin Luther’s “Temporal Authority, To What Extent It Should Be Obeyed”
In 1523 Luther wrote a nice little piece called “Temporal Authority, To What Extent It Should Be Obeyed.” It’s published in Luther’s Wor...
Luther on Wisdom
The Old Flamme put together three classes on wisdom. The first was from the Scriptures, the second from the ancient church fathers, and the third, last night...
Introduction to Luther’s Genesis Commentary by Veit Dietrich (1544)
Who’s Veit Dietrich? This guy: From wikipedia: Veit Dietrich, also Vitus Theodorus or Vitus Diterichus, (8 December 1506 – 25 March 1549) was a German the...
Martin Luther on “The One Great Book”
Here’s another little gem from Lenker’s introduction in Luther’s Genesis, a quotation from Luther on having too many books. “The aggrega...
Martin Luther’s “Concerning Christian Liberty” Republished
Concerning Christian Liberty (1520) FREE DOWNLOAD | PRINT EDITION (Lulu $5) From the introduction: The Freedom of the Christian is one of the three great essay...
Martin Luther’s Account of the Diet of Worms
From “The Life of Martin Luther Gathered from His Own Writings” (p. 52-55, please note that I’ve found a few historical errors in the book, an...
Two New Quotations from Luther on the Three Estates
Digging around, I found two more great quotations from Luther regarding the Three Estates of Church, Family, and State. They’ve been added to the growing ...
Genesis 1:26, “Let Us Make Man,” Luther’s defence of the Trinitarian Teaching
In Genesis 1:26 we hear the conversation of the Godhead about the creation of humanity: Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And le...
Martin Luther on “What Christian Liberty Is”
I was looking through an old notebook this morning and found this: It turns out that Luther’s Works, volume 44, page 298 is in the middle of Luther’...
Thinking Like a Lutheran: The Three Estates (Quotation Collection Post)
The Church The Family The State. These are the three estates created and instituted by God. These estates are how God has ordered the cosmos. These estates are ...