Luther’s Church Postil: Gospels: Epiphany, Lent and Easter Sermons
Overview
Many preachers during Luther’s era did not write their own sermons, so they depended on lessons and sermons from others. Luther considered many of these borrowed sermons not fully evangelical. Thus, he wrote his Postils to provide preachers with biblically sound sermons from which they could preach for each Sunday of the year. In this volume, Luther’s sermons cover Epiphany to Easter.
Top Highlights
“For where this is not done, we make a temporal, unfruitful work out of the mass, however good it may be in itself. For what help is it to you, that God is God, if he is not God to you? What benefit is it that eating and drinking are in themselves healthful and good, if they are not healthful for you, and there is fear that we never grow better by reason of our many masses, if we fail to seek the true fruit in them?” (Page 185)
- Title: Luther’s Church Postil: Gospels: Epiphany, Lent and Easter Sermons
- Author: Martin Luther
- Series: The Precious and Sacred Writings of Martin Luther
- Volume: II
- Publisher: Lutherans in All Lands Co.
- Print Publication Date: 1906
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Church year sermons
- Resource ID: LLS:LTHRSCHRCHSRMNS
- Resource Type: text.monograph.sermons
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T04:26:34Z
Martin Luther (1483–1546), one of the most significant figures in Western history, was a key figure in the Protestant Reformation. Over the course of his life, Luther was a monk, a priest, a professor of biblical literature, a Reformer, a husband, and a father.
Luther is most noted for his Ninety-Five Theses (1517), in which he argued that indulgences were not acts of penance which could replace true repentance. His refusal to retract all his writings, demanded by Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1521, resulted in his excommunication by the pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the emperor.
Luther has been both praised and vilified for what he preached and wrote. Luther’s translation of the Christian Bible into the vernacular greatly influenced the church. His works continue to impact all Christians and animate the movement that bears his name. Luther’s Works (55 vols.) contains many of Luther’s writings, including commentaries, sermons, and lectures.