The Courage of Faith: Martin Luther and the Theonomous Self

A provocative defense of the ongoing relevance of Luther's thought and documentation of how Luther's thinking evolved on issues critical in our time.

In The Courage of Faith: Martin Luther and the Theonomous Self theologian and ethicist Mary Gaebler offers a critical corrective to the historical record and theological assumptions about human being and human agency. She not only shows how Luther's thinking on the will and effective agency evolved, she shows how a deeper coherence in his thinking that guided him through successive vocations as a monk, public figure, spouse, father, and pastor. Luther's increasingly open anthropology, she shows, evinced a growing affirmation of the created order, recognition of faith's role in the transformation of the world, and his exhortation to take courage in god's transforming presence for the good of all.