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Book (943.03-4369) Facets: The Wit of Martin Luther
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| Author: |
Gritsch, Eric W. |
| Publisher: |
Augsburg Fortress, 2006 |
| Length: |
134 Pages |
| Subjects: |
Martin Luther |
| # Copies: |
1 |
| ISBN/ISSN: |
9780800638030
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| Description: |
This mini-treatise finds in Luther's humor a key to his whole life and thought. Eric Gritsch ties Luther's wit and humor not only to his sharp polemical exploitation of the absurd or incongruous in service to his Reform. At a deeper level, Luther's wit and witticisms also reflected Luther's keen appreciation of human frailty and the unknowability of things divine. Luther, Gritsch shows, especially relished humor in his interpretation of the Bible, in his pastoral relationships, and in his encounters with death. Ultimately, humor in face of mortality is a gauge of human freedom, a lightening up that makes of life a divine comedy. An interesting and entertaining entry into Luther's thought, his little book brings out the sublime religious meaning at stake in the theological thwacks and thuds of the Reformer's life. |
| Age Groups: |
High School; Young Adult; Adult (30-55); Adult (55+)
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