Bound Choice, Election, and Wittenberg Theological Method: From Martin Luther to the Formula of Concord

by Robert Kolb

Overview

Galvanized by Erasmus' teaching on free will, Martin Luther wrote De servo arbitrio, or The Bondage of the Will, insisting that the sinful human will could not turn itself to God. In this first study to investigate the sixteenth-century reception of De servo, Robert Kolb unpacks Luther's theology and recounts his followers' ensuing disputes until their resolution in the Lutheran churches' 1577 Formula of Concord.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506427096
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	01/01/2017
Series:	Lutheran Quarterly Books
Pages:	381
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Robert Kolb, professor of systematic theology emeritus at Concordia Seminary in Saint Louis, Missouri, has taught on five continents and written or edited some thirty books, including The Book of Concord, coedited with Timothy J. Wengert (Fortress Press, 2000), and The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther's Theology, coedited with Irene Dingel and Lubomir Batka (Oxford University Press, 2014).