Christ Present in Faith <subTitle>Luther's view of justification</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Mannermaa, Tuomo</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">6:3</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Fortress Press</publisher> <dateIssued>2005</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>136tr.</extent> <extent>Paperback</extent> <extent>22 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>Tuomo Mannermaa here opens up new interpretive questions for historical theology with implications for ecumenism, ethics, and spirituality. He writes, ""the idea of the divine life in Christ which is present in faith lies at the very center of the theology of the Reformer."" He argues that later Lutheran interpretation of this teaching has portrayed justification as more mechanical and forensic than Luther did, underestimated the extent to which God's righteousness is also ours, and obscured the radical personal transformation that Luther attributed to justification...</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Tuomo Mannermaa, Kirsi Stjerna</note> <subject> <topic>Luther, Martin, 1483-1546 -- Theology</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Justification (Christian theology) -- History of doctrines</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">234.7092</classification> <classification authority="ddc">T883-M28</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780800637118, 0800637119</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/11765/18.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/11765/18.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2023-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071044.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>