We Are All Priests

The Ecclesiological Boundaries and Horizons of Martin Luther’s Common Priesthood

Roger Whittall (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

268 Seiten

2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-9787-1542-4 (ISBN)

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In this book, Roger Whittall argues that Luther’s teaching on the common priesthood (the “priesthood of believers”) was a persistent element of Luther’s ecclesiology and closely related to his understanding of the church as the communion of saints. Whittall’s focus is the common priesthood’s activity in the Christian community, moving beyond its contested relationship to the church’s ordained ministry, or the views that limit its appearance to Luther’s early polemical writings. Rather, the common priesthood stands alongside the public ministry. They are equal partners in the church’s mandate to receive and speak God’s word, to respond in prayer, praise, and joyful service of God’s world and all its people. This wide-ranging investigation features later material not often considered in relation to the common priesthood. For Luther “priesthood” was a biblical expression of Christian spiritual life, worship, and service, forming both the personal faith of individual Christians and the corporate nature of the Christian community. Whittall also examines Luther’s use of key biblical texts to link church and priesthood through the themes of unity and community, equality, and participation. Understood in this way, this priesthood still speaks powerfully to the identity and mission of the church today.

Roger Whittall is an honorary postdoctoral associate at the University of Divinity, Melbourne.

Introduction

Chapter 1: Church and Priesthood in Luther’s First Lectures

Chapter 2: Luther’s Early Ecclesiology, Its Substance and Form

Chapter 3: Luther’s Early Teaching on The Common Priesthood, to 1525

Chapter 4: The Biblical Data for The Common Priesthood

Chapter 5: Luther’s Ecclesiology and the Challenge of Reform, from 1524

Chapter 6: The Response to Rome: Next Instalment

Chapter 7: The Common Priesthood in Luther’s Old Testament Writings, 1524–46

Chapter 8: The Common Priesthood in Luther’s New Testament Preaching, 1522–46

Conclusions: Martin Luther’s Common Priesthood: Its Boundaries and Horizons

Erscheinungsdatum	29.11.2023
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 239 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-9787-1542-0 / 1978715420
ISBN-13	978-1-9787-1542-4 / 9781978715424
Zustand	Neuware