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“It has always seemed odd that the Luther charged with breaking the church is also the Luther charged with encouraging passivity in the face of injustice. Perhaps we could make better sense of the great reformer if we listened to the way most in his day heard him: through his sermons. Justin Nickel rightly argues that expanding what we read of Luther expands how we understand Luther. Though he has been widely criticized for a passive conception of graced human agency, his preaching contradicts this misreading. The Work of Faith shows us Luther himself as an agent, a master of rhetoric who reaches out to minister to his congregants. Nickel shows that Luther calls Christians to intentional agency, even returning to the law in a manner transformed by love. Perhaps, he suggests, our problem with Luther is us: we tend to think of freedom as autonomy, but Luther thinks grace and freedom are not competitive, but compatible. ” —Jesse Couenhoven, Villanova University

The Work of Faith

Divine Grace and Human Agency in Martin Luther's Preaching

Justin Nickel

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ISBN 978-1-9787-0963-8 (cloth)

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