Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings

<p><b>The best one-volume reader of Luther's writingsnow revised</b><p></p><b>Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings</b> a single-volume introduction to Luther's most influential noted and important writings in the modern translationsincluding excerpts of his sermons and letterspresents Luther the theologian steeped in the word of God speaking to the whole church even as it takes the reader straight to Luther the man to his controversial Reformation insights to his strongest convictions about God and Scripture and the life of the church and most importantly to his theologya still-exciting encounter with the meaning of Jesus Christ for each age.</p><p>The third edition includes revised introductions updated bibliography index and the addition of A Meditation on Christ's Passion (1519) Treatise on the Blessed Sacrament (1519) Sermon on the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of ChristAgainst the Fanatics (1526) Sermon in Castle Pleissenburg (1539) and Consolation to Women Whose Pregnancies Have Not Gone Well (1542) as well as new translations of A Practical Way to Pray (1535) and On the Freedom of a Christian (1520). </p>