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Two Kinds of Love

Martin Luther's Religious World
  • ISBN-13: 9780800697075
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: AUGSBURG BOOKS
  • By Tuomo Mannermaa, By Kirsi I. Stjerna
  • Price: AUD $51.99
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  • Local release date: 01/08/2010
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 140.00mm) 144 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Theology [HRLB]
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Published in Finland in 1983, Two Kinds of Love is the second of Tuomo Mannermaa's provocative books offering a distinctly different interpretation of Martin Luther's theology. The other, Christ Present in Faith, was published by Fortress Press in 2005. In Two Kinds of Love, Mannermaa unfolds Luther's understanding of love as the key to the reformer's theology of grace. Human love orients toward that "which is lovable to it"-- toward that which is already "good and beautiful"-- and, as such, comes into being only through "the prestige and glory of the loved one." In contrast, God's love, which "does not find but creates the lovable in its object," is a pure gift of grace, which makes possible our love for God and for one another. Mannermaa spearheaded the Finnish Luther Research project for more than twenty years, and more than any other is responsible for the unique perspective on Luther contributed to Luther scholarship by the Finnish School. Two Kinds of Love concludes with an afterword, reviewing Finnish Luther Research since 1977.
Tuomo Mannermaawas Emeritus Emeritus Professor of Ecumenical Theology at the University of Helsinki. Kirsi I. Stjerna is First Lutheran, Los Angeles/Southwest California Synod Professor of Lutheran History and Theologyat Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary of California Lutheran University. A docent at the University of Helsinki, she is author or editor of eight books, including Women and the Reformation (2008) and Martin Luther, the Bible, and the Jewish People, with Brooks Schramm (Fortress Press, 2012).
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