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The doctrine of justification is at the basis of Luther’s ecclesiology. Luther’s deliberation of the essence of the church is bound to the concept of faith in the incarnation of God in Jesus Christ, in other words, humanitas Christi. The visible character of the church is grounded in Christ’s kingdom, namely, regnum carnis Christi (kingdom of Christ’s flesh), which is also invisible.
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WA 26:59. See Jeannine E. Olson, Deacons and Deaconesses Through the Centuries, rev. and ed. of One Ministry, Many Roles (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1992), 109–10.
Walter Altmann, Luther and Liberation: A Latin American Perspective, trans. Mary M. Solbreg (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992), 109–11.
Luther, “An die Pfarrherren, wider den Wucher zu predigen,” in Günter Fabiunke, Martin Lather als Nationalökonom (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1963), 206.
WA I. 304; cf. F.-W. Marquardt, “Gott oder Mammon: über Theologie und Oekonomie bei Martin Luther” in Einwürfe 1 (Munich: Chr. Kaiser, 1983), 193.
WA 1011, 12 5; see Ulrich Duchrow, Alternatives to Global Capitalism Drawn from Biblical History, Designed for Political Action (Utrecht and Heidelberg: International Books, Kairos Europa, 1998), 220.
Karl Marx, Capital, vol. 1, 649–50. Marx quoted from Luther’s treatise, “An die Pfarrherren, wider den Wucher zu predigen.” See D. Martin Luthers Werke, Bd. 51 (Weimar: German Böhlaus Nachfolger, 1914), 331–424.
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Fred W. Graham, The Constructive Revolutionary: John Calvin & His Socio-Economic Impact (Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1987), 80.
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Chung, P.S. (2009). The Church in the Power of the Spirit. In: The Spirit of God Transforming Life. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230103467_6
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