Published : 2020-07-30

Almighty God and Unfree Will: Key Motives of Luther’s Theology in the Interpretation of Contemporary Researchers of His Legacy

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The article focuses on two topics of Martin Luther’s theology — his vision of God and the understanding of freedom of will. It does so through the prism of two contemporary interpretations of the Reformer’s theology prepared by Oswald Bayer and Hans-Martin Barth, reputable researchers of Martin Luther. Their analyses, which differ in their perspective and order, show the theology of Martin Luther as imbued with the radical vision of an almighty God and passive man who has no freedom of will regarding salvation. These reconstructions were inscribed in the diagnosis of key structures of Martin Luther’s theology by Albrecht Beutel: its rooting in the Christocentric interpretation of the Bible, its understanding in terms of the art of discrimination, and its basing on experience.

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Martin Luther, God, freedom of will, theodicy, Oswald Bayer, Hans-Martin Barth, Albrecht Beutel



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Roczniki Teologiczne · ISSN 2353-7272 | eISSN 2543-5973 · DOI: 10.18290/rt
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