Martin Luther
1483–1546
The Wittenberg reformer who set the Reformation in motion: justification by faith alone, Scripture as the final authority, the freedom of a Christian.
In his own words
These are the people who know their poverty and long for grace, who realize that they are nothing and Christ is everything. 36. It is noticeable that Simeon adds the word “Israel.” For Christ had been promised by all the prophets only to the people of Israel. At the same time it was announced that many among that people would fall away only on account of their self-righteousness. This is indeed a terrible example to us Gentiles, to whom nothing has been promised; but out of pure grace we have unexpectedly been brought into the kingdom and have risen through Christ, as St. Paul tells us in Romans 15:9 and as we have said in explaining the Epistle for the second Sunday in Advent. For this reason the example of Israel’s fall should touch our hearts, as the apostle exhorts us in Romans 11:20, that we may not also fall, or perhaps fall more grievously than the Jews and Turks, being seduced by Antichrist and bearing the name of Christ to the dishonor of God and our own harm.
Quoted verbatim from the library, as an answer would quote it.
What we hold of him
183 sermons
including Epiphany (Matthew 2:1-12); Sunday after Christmas (Luke 2:33-40); Third Christmas Day (John 1:1-14)
17 classics
including Table Talk; On the Bondage of the Will; The Babylonian Captivity of the Church (1520)
The Small Catechism
Catechism
The Large Catechism
Catechism
Luther's Small Catechism
Prayer
Commentary on Galatians
Commentary
The Smalcald Articles
Confession
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