Martin Luther Luther's Works - Volume 67: (Annotations on Matthew: Chapters

About the VolumeThis volume contains Annotations on Matthew 118 (153435/1538), and the first chapter of Sermons on Matthew 1824 (153740/17961847).In December 1533, a new cycle of preaching on Matthew began in the Wittenberg Castle Church. Luther himself inaugurated the series with three sermons on Matthew 1. Then the preaching on Matthew was assigned to the Wittenberg doctoral student Hieronymus Weller (14991572). Behind Wellers sermons, however, stood Luther, who prepared notes to help his student preach. The notes touched both on the interpretation of the scriptural passages and on homiletical strategies for preaching them. In annotating Matthews text for another doctor of theology, Luther grappled with questions of the exegesis of the Synoptic Gospels at a high level of technical detail. Luther drew especially on the discipline of rhetoricthe use of language to persuade and move human beingsto interpret Matthews narrative and Jesus speech presented there and to identify strategies for the effective homiletical presentation of those texts to Wellers contemporary audience. As a modern reader, you will want to explore Luthers treatment of the application of rhetoric to the tasks of exegesis and preaching, as well as for its exegesis of controverted passages. For Luther, trained as a Nominalist and later embracing humanist studies, a rhetorical understanding of Christs speechand the rhetorical application of His Word in the presentis vitally important for Christians. The... | Martin Luther Luther's Works - Volume 67: (Annotations on Matthew: Chapters