Luther's Works - Volume 78

<p><strong style=color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>About the Volume</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>This volume brings forth Luther's sermons on Epistle and Gospel texts in the historic one-year lectionary series from the Festival of the Holy Trinity through the Tenth Sunday after Trinity. Additionally this collection features Luther's sermons on 1 John 4:16-21 never before translated and previously omitted from the </span><em style=color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>Church Postil</em><span style=color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>. Readers will gain new insight from Luther's topics for preaching including:</span></p><ul><li>the time between death and resurrection in his sermon on the Gospel for Trinity 1</li><li>warnings about impenitence in the Gospel on the destruction of Jerusalem for Trinity 10</li><li>insightful teaching about the role of God's Law in the lives of believers in the Gospels for Trinity 3 and Trinity 5</li><li>clear teaching on how to distinguish Law and Gospel in the Gospel for Trinity 5</li></ul><p><span style=color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>Few other books communicated the Gospel to Luther's contemporaries so powerfully as Luther's </span><em style=color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>Church Postil</em><span style=color: rgba(9 11 13 1)> (sermons for the church year). Now for the first time Luther's authorized final edition of the </span><em style=color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>Church Postil</em><span style=color: rgba(9 11 13 1)> edited originally by Caspar Cruciger for the summer half of the year is presented here in clear English.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(9 11 13 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>In 1535 Luther wrote to a friend Concerning the [earlier version of the] postil you have more respect for it than I do. I would like the whole book to be destroyed. And this is what I am doing: I am entrusting to Dr. Caspar Cruciger the work of re-editing the whole into a new and better form which would be of benefit to the whole Church everywhere. He is the sort of man unless love deceives me who will correspond to Elisha if I were Elijah (if one may compare small things with great) a man of peace and quiet to whom I shall commend the church after [I depart] ...</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(9 11 13 1)> </span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>About the Series</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(9 11 13 1)>The 28 planned new volumes are intended to reflect both modern and sixteenth-century interests and to expand the coverage of genres underrepresented in the existing volumes such as Luther's sermons and disputations. The primary basis for the translation is the comprehensive Weimar edition.</span></p>