Ebook: The Devil’s Whore: Reason and Philosophy in the Lutheran Tradition
Author: Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth
- Tags: Luther Martin -- 1483-1546. Spiritual warfare. Struggle -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Mechthild -- of Magdeburg -- approximately 1212-approximately 1282. Mechthild -- of Hackeborn -- 1241 or 1242-1299? Faith. Christian life.
- Series: Studies in Lutheran history and theology
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- City: Minneapolis
- Language: English
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"Inspired by a bold nun, on nearly twenty occasions over the course of his ministry Martin Luther invoked her way of warding off the devil and the temptation to despair. 'I am a Christian, ' she would say to the Tempter, and Luther's admiration for her becomes an entre to the whole religious world of the middle ages and Luther's time. Schneider's fascinating journey goes in search, first, of the meaning that thisRead more...
Abstract: "Inspired by a bold nun, on nearly twenty occasions over the course of his ministry Martin Luther invoked her way of warding off the devil and the temptation to despair. 'I am a Christian, ' she would say to the Tempter, and Luther's admiration for her becomes an entre to the whole religious world of the middle ages and Luther's time. Schneider's fascinating journey goes in search, first, of the meaning that this story had for Luther and his theological world but then of the nun's identity and the whole role of the devil, guilt, sin, and temptation in the medieval worldview. Finally, Schneider turns to today and people's struggles with despair, sickness, addiction, and death. She shows the strange but undeniable pertinence of the whole idea of the devil, Christian community as a bulwark against evil, and how Luther's battles illumine our own. Schneider's work brightly models a historical theology that is as pastorally pertinent as it is historically engrossing"--Publisher description