Martin Luther, the Bible, and the Jewish People :A Reader

Publication subTitle :A Reader

Author: Schramm   Brooks  

Publisher: Fortress Press‎

Publication year: 2012

E-ISBN: 9781451424287

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780800698041

Subject: B979 History of Christianity

Keyword: 宗教

Language: ENG

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Martin Luther, the Bible, and the Jewish People

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The place and significance of Martin Luther in the long history of Christian anti-Jewish polemic has been and continues to be a contested issue. The literature on the subject is substantial, and diverse. While efforts to exonerate Luther as “merely” a man of his times who “merely” perpetuated what he had received from his cultural and theological tradition have rightly been jettisoned, there still persists even among the educated public the perception that the truly problematic aspects of Luther’s anti-Jewish attitudes are confined to the final stages of his career. It is true that Luther’s anti-Jewish rhetoric intensified toward the end of his life, but reading Luther with a careful eye toward “the Jewish question,” it becomes clear that Luther’s theological presuppositions toward Judaism and the Jewish people are a central, core component of his thought throughout his career, not just at the end. It follows then that it is impossible to understand the heart and building blocks of Luther’s theology (justification, faith, liberation, salvation, grace) without acknowledging the crucial role of “the Jews” in his fundamental thinking.

Chapter

The Jew in Luther’s World

The Text Selections

Text #1: First Psalm Lectures (1513–1515)

Text #2: Letter to George Spalatin (1514)

Text #3: Lectures on Romans (1515–1516)

Text #4: Lectures on Galatians (1519)

Text #5: Second Psalms Lectures (1519–1521)

Text #6: Magnificat (1521)

Text #7: That Jesus Christ Was Born a Jew (1523)

Text #8: Letter to the Baptized Jew, Bernard (1523)

Text #9: Lectures on Deuteronomy (1525)

Text #10: Sermon: How Christians Should Regard Moses (1525)

Text #11: Lectures on Zechariah (1525/1526)

Text #12: Sermon on Jeremiah 23:5-8 (The Visit of Three Jews) (1526)

Text #14: Lectures on Isaiah (1527–1530)

Text #15: Preface to Daniel (1530)

Text #16: Letter to Josel of Rosheim (1537)

Text #17: Lectures on Genesis 12 (1537)

Text #18: The Three Symbols of the Christian Faith (1538)

Text #19: Lectures on Genesis 17 (1538)

Text #20: Against the Sabbatarians (1538)

Text #21: New Preface to Ezekiel (1541)

Text #22: Liscentiate Exam Heinrich Schmedenstede (1542)

Text #23: On the Jews and Their Lies (1543)

Text #24: On the Ineffable Name and on the Lineage of Christ (1543)

Text #25: Josel of Rosheim: Letter to the Strasbourg City Council (1543)

Text #26: On the Last Words of David (1543)

Text #27: Two Letters to Katharina Luther (1546)

Text #28: An Admonition against the Jews (1546)

Afterword

Chronology

Declaration of ELCA to the Jewish Community

Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

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