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Six Kids Save Planet Earth
Paul W Robinson; Edited by Shaun Russell; Illustrated by Martin Baines
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Volume 3 of The Annotated Luther series presents five key writings
that focus on Martin Luther's understanding of the gospel as it
relates to church, sacraments, and worship. Included in the volume
are: The Babylonian Captivity of the Church (1520); The German Mass
and Order of the Liturgy (1526); That These Words of Christ,"This
is my Body," etc., Still Stand Firm Against the Fanatics (1527);
Concerning Rebaptism (1528), and On the Councils and the Church
(1539).Luther refused to tolerate a church built on human works,
whether it was the pope's authority or the faith or decision of
individual believers. This is the thread that runs through all the
texts in this volume: the church and sacraments belong to Christ,
who founded and instituted them. Each volume in The Annotated
Luther series contains new introductions, as well as annotations,
illustrations, and notes to help shed light on Luther's context and
interpret his writings for today. The translations of Luther's
writings include updates of Luther's Works American Edition, or
entirely new translations of Luther's German or Latin writings.
In his The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, Martin Luther set
forth a reconsideration of the sacramental Christian life that
centered on the word. His thesis is that the papacy had distorted
the sacraments with its own traditions and regulations,
transforming them into a system of control and coercion. The
evangelical liberty of the sacramental promises had been replaced
by a papal absolutism which, like a feudal lordship, claimed its
own jurisdictional liberties and privileges over the totality of
Christian life through a sacramental system that spanned birth to
death. Yet Luther, does not replace one tyranny for another; his
argument for a return to the biblical understanding of the
sacraments is moderated by a consideration of traditions and
external practices in relation to their effects on the individual
conscience and faith. This volume is excerpted from The Annotated
Luther series, Volume 3. Each volume in the series contains new
introductions, annotations, illustrations, and notes to help shed
light on Luther's context and interpret his writings for today.
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