Luther on the Creation: A Critical and Devotional Commentary on Genesis
Overview
Martin Luther began this work in 1536 while he lectured at the University of Wittenberg, and finished it in 1545, just a few months before his death. In the first volume, Luther discusses how one should read the books of Moses and what readers should learn from them.
Top Highlights
“This then is the meaning of the Sabbath or the ‘rest’ of God. It is a sanctified day of rest, on which God speaks to or talks with us, and we in turn speak to and talk with him in prayer and by faith.” (Page 141)
“For as the sun is more glorious than the moon, though the moon is a most glorious body, so woman, though she was a most beautiful work of God, yet she did not equal the glory of the male creature.” (Page 125)
“it was the very nature of Adam to know God, to love God, to believe in God, to acknowledge God and to worship God, etc.” (Page 258)
“in that she has dissimilar members, a varied form and a mind weaker than man” (Page 124)
“If these natural endowments therefore constitute the image of God it will inevitably follow that Satan also was created in the image of God; for he possesses all these natural qualities, and to an extent and strength far beyond our own. For he has a memory and an intellect the most powerful and a will the most obstinate.” (Page 115)
- Title: Luther on the Creation: A Critical and Devotional Commentary on Genesis
- Author: Martin Luther
- Series: The Precious and Sacred Writings of Martin Luther
- Volume: I
- Publisher: Lutherans in All Lands Co.
- Print Publication Date: 1904
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. O.T. Genesis › Commentaries
- Resource ID: LLS:LTHRCRTNCMMGNSS
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T04:26:12Z
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.