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Luther and the Hungry Poor: Gathered Fragments | 
 enlarge | Author: Samuel Torvend
Publisher: Fortress Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 486991
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.2
ISBN: 0800662385
Dewey Decimal Number: 261.8325
EAN: 9780800662387
ASIN: 0800662385
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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Samuel Torvend's original and important reconstruction of the emergence of Luther's and the early Reformation church's response to the poor gathers fragments from across Luther's early writings. He uncovers a striking counter-image to the usual portrait of a quietist orientation that left the world to deal with its own problems. Instead, he finds that Luther's concern emerged early in his career, centered around hunger and the hungry poor, and was deeply rooted in his encounter with the Bible and with the sacramental character of the local church.
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The implications of justification by grace June 14, 2008
Professor Samuel Torvend masterfully connects Martin Luther's justification by grace theology with the piercing social implications it brings. This book uncovers how Martin Luther responded to the needs of the poor and homeless in his time by highlighting his innovative social welfare systems that met the needs of the hungry poor more adequately than individual giving did. Torvend emphasizes that Luther wrote preliminary social welfare orders to counteract an emerging capital based economy which valued goods over grace. Church orders such as the Order of Wittenberg and the Leisnig Ordinance called for Christ's love to be shown on earth through social legislation. Luther and the Hungry Poor is a blueprint for how Luther thought Christians should act in society. This book is applicable to all Christian's who wish to follow the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Luther surprising as social critic for today June 7, 2008
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Hungry Poor turned a sociological category into a verb! This small, important book took me through the tiny keyhole allowed for religion today (individual salvation, private and personal, with a few very radioactive topics and little real impact) into two big rooms. First, I felt part of the world in which Luther was commenting not on in-house church controversies but on the way his culture saw money, status, and religion, and ignored poverty, hunger and despair. Second, I found myself in an expansive adjoining room, the world of Jesus and the first century writers of the New Testament. In both arenas, the lines between religion and social justice were erased, and the focus was on the total welfare of those forgotten people who did not benefit from any of the systems, temporal or eternal. Luther was pulling away the blindfold that hides both his times and ours from the unintended consequences of ignoring larger social issues. Three dozen 16th C illustrations inserted at exactly the right spot in the text invited me to put my own face in the shot--and see where I am blinded. This book will appeal to thoughtful readers who are either socially or spiritually concerned, as well as those ready to meet Martin Luther with new eyes.
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