Luther

<p>Martin Luther is often thought of as a world-shaking figure who defied papacy and empire to introduce a reformation in the teaching worship organization and life of the Church. Sometimes it is forgotten that he was also a pastor and shepherd of souls. Collected in this volume are Luther's letters of spiritual counsel which he offered to his contemporaries in the midst of sickness death persecution imprisonment famine and political instability. For Luther spiritual counsel was about establishing nurturing and strengthening faith. Freshly translated from the original German and Latin the letters shed light on the fascinating relationship between his pastoral counsel and his theology. </p><p>Theodore G. Tappert taught Church History at Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He also translated <em>Pia Desideria</em> by Philip Jacob Spener and <em>The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church</em>.</p>