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本文集共收錄三十一個篇章,分成六個部分。各部分收錄了四至六篇路德的重要作品。第一部分(五篇)主題為神學基本問題,路德嚴格依據《聖經》內容對此前的諸多闡述提出了自己的批判性解讀,特別質疑了當時佔據統治地位的經院神學。第二部分(五篇)主題為《聖經》教義,收錄了路德作為神學教授對《聖經》教義諸典籍的部分講授內容,以及路德作為重要的《聖經》德語譯者所作的幾則前言。第三部分(四篇)主題為基督之公義,闡釋了上帝之愛,這種愛與罪過之間、與通過信仰而獲得贖罪之間的關聯。第四部分(五篇)主題為聖禮,路德批判了基督教傳統上繁冗的儀式,但肯定了聖洗禮和聖餐禮兩種重要聖禮。路德詳細論述了聖洗禮和聖餐禮在傳播福音方面的重要意義,這是路德對基督教信仰正面的、建設性的闡釋。第五部分(六篇)主題為教會改革,針對備受民眾歡迎、但受到羅馬教宗冷酷鎮壓的路德宗教改革運動中湧現的大量問題和挑戰,這部分收錄的文獻正是路德對這類問題作出的部分回應。第六部分(六篇)主題為基督徒的生活,圍繞人與神的關係,體現了路德對人在此岸世界即現實生活中應該如何生活,同時牢記上帝在規訓和福音方面教誨的看法。
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Introduction: Luther's Challenge to Theology Today
PART I The Task of Theology
1. Disputation Against Scholastic Theology
2. The Ninety-Five Theses
3. Heidelberg Disputation
4. Confession Concerning Christ's Supper—Part III
5. Preface to the Wittenberg Edition of Luther's German Writings
PART II The Power of the Word of God
6. 「Concerning the Letter and the Spirit」 from Answer to the Hyperchristian, Hyperspiritual, and Hyperlearned Book by Goat Emser in Leipzig (1521)
7. A Brief Instruction on What to Look for and Expect in the Gospels
8. Preface to the New Testament
9. Preface to the Old Testament
10. How Christians Should Regard Moses
PART III The Righteousness of God in Christ
11. Two Kinds of Righteousness
12. A Meditation on Christ's Passion
13. The Bondage of the Will—Introduction, Part VI, and Conclusion
14. Sermon on the Afternoon of Christmas Day
PART IV The Promise of the Sacraments
15. The Blessed Sacrament of the Holy and True Body and Blood of Christ, and the Brotherhoods
16. The Babylonian Captivity of the Church—Part I
17. The Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ—Against the Fanatics
18. Concerning Rebaptism
19. Confession Concerning Christ's Supper—from Part I
PART V The Reform of the Church
20. Eight Sermons at Wittenberg
21. Concerning the Order of Public Worship
22. An Order of Mass and Communion for the Church at Wittenberg
23. The Small Catechism
24. The Smalcald Articles
25. On the Councils and the Church—Part III
PART VI Living and Dying as a Christian
26. The Freedom of a Christian
27. A Sermon on the Estate of Marriage
28. A Sermon on Preparing to Die
29. Temporal Authority: To What Extent It Should Be Obeyed
30. To the Councilmen of all Cities in Germany That They Establish and Maintain Christian Schools
31. Whether One May Flee from a Deadly Plague
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